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This solution seems like the kind of stuff that only Apple, Google, and maybe one or two other companies likd Microsoft will actually have any foothold in.

Nobody else is going to be the central point for enough data to make this kind of AI useful.

Example: Atlassian can’t make a product like this because they only have access to a small piece of your personal data in the first place. They don’t have access to your work calendar, emails, chat, conference calls, etc. Many companies who use Atlassian don’t even want to use them for source control or pipelines despite those products being a part of their suite.

Same deal with companies like Slack: they don’t have access to your email or your ticketing system. Notion doesn’t have access to your emails, conference calls, etc.

So realistically, truly helpful AI is going to be gated behind giants like Google and Microsoft, while the companies fighting for LLM scraps are going to all make their ShitGPT support chat bots.

The ultimate death knell for AI is that it’s such a unique technology that the average CTO can’t even conceptualize how it works and what it can do. I think they didn’t have that problem with previous tech industry hype trains.



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