One of the iron laws of software strategy: whichever entity stores the important state has an order of magnitude more leverage.
- One of the iron laws of software strategy: whichever entity stores the important state has an order of magnitude more leverage.
- Another: controlling the pixels the user sees has an order of magnitude more leverage.
- The combination gives an order of magnitude more strategic leverage than either alone, but both are very powerful.
- LLM API providers don't have the state, it's stateless![ey]
- They also don't control what pixels are on screen.
- That's why OpenAI is moving so aggressively to own the vertically integrated consumer experience, complete with tons of state.