Brian Barrett

We know we make a lot of money off them.

And there's a presumed like, we're on it, but not enough probably.

Yeah, I think it's the same conversation, I think, that is evolving a little bit where

A lot of times it's cover for having overhired, but increasingly, I think so you've made this point, it actually is getting to be the point where AI can replace some engineers.

Or not entirely, but at least you can have like a couple of engineers overseeing some agentic AI is as or more effective than 50 engineers.

Speaking of ways in which AI companies grow and change, Elon Musk officially lost his lawsuit to Sam Altman and OpenAI this week.

It was.

It was a special moment to get people caught up a little bit who have not been tracking this as obsessively as I know Zoe has and as Leah has too.

Elon Musk had sued over claims that OpenAI illegally abandoned its nonprofit mission and turned into this for-profit giant.

It took a jury slightly less than two hours to say, no, go away.

Incredible.

But the

It was interesting, too, the reason that they said that, they didn't even bother dealing with the merits.

The statute of limitations had expired on this, basically, and they said you cannot...

It's too late to bring this.

If you would want to do this, you should have done this a while ago.

And even beyond the statute of limitations, maybe you have more credibility if you're doing this before you are building your own giant competitor to open AI and have such a clear monetary interest beyond whatever, like, compensation you would get from the trial.

When the decision was released on Monday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers said that in her eyes, the trial had been worthwhile to bring clarity to the dispute and that there was, quote,

A substantial amount of evidence to support the jury's findings, which is why I was prepared to accept the jury's findings and dismiss on the spot.

Right.