Nilay Patel

And at the end of it all, the creators all have to pivot to selling something.

The Paul brothers have to sell you bottled water.

Mr. Beast has to sell you energy bars.

Like we've devalued the work so much that unlike any other industry in the world, the internet industries, the information ecosystem pivots from bits to atoms.

That's pretty rare in like the history of business.

Most businesses pivot from atoms to bits, right?

The margins of bits are historically much better than the margins of atoms, except on YouTube, except every major artist has to be on tour forever because the money from selling music itself is so low.

AI is bringing that at scale.

You can feel the pressure.

This whole conversation has been about that pressure.

And maybe the legal doctrines don't line up exactly, and maybe I'm making too many generalizations, and I hear the criticisms that you've parried me with.

But that's what I feel, is that all of these platforms at the end are becoming about someone trying to sell you something else.

And AI is just accelerating that.

I'm just wondering where you think the endpoint is.

Wait, I'm just going to ask you this as directly as I can.

Do you think that feature will be good?

But do you think you can get an, like, I don't know what your tool looks like to build an agent inside your platform, but I haven't seen an LLM that can replicate my writing, let alone my editing.

Do you, you know, you're dependent on the capabilities of the models themselves.

So I'm asking you kind of in a general way, but knowing how you're, you know how your tool is built.

Can you actually make a tool that can do that well?