A paradigm shift is the time to be idealistic.
...ime to be idealistic. If AI is a paradigm shift, why waste it by continuing the late stage cynicism of the last decade of tech?
Topic: late stage
30 chunks · 22 episodes
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- late stage appears in 30 chunks across 22 episodes, from 2024-02-12 to 2026-01-19.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 1/27/25 (2025-01-27), with 3 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with early stage, vertical saas, and critical mass, while by chunk count it sits between background noise and system record; its yearly rank moved from #26 in 2024 to #147 in 2026.
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The universe tends inexorably towards consolidation because of gravity.
...rgent phenomena due to preferential attachment. When a system has gotten to its late stage, it's consolidated. It's a kind of heat death. But a lot of interesting things can happen before that consolidation. And there are often ways to sign...
We're in the climax forest phase of the tech ecosystem.
We're in the climax forest phase of the tech ecosystem. Late stage. A small number of massive trees shading everywhere, preventing anything else from growing. What breaks the late-stage? Disturbance at multiple scale...
Stephen Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley.
...I Was Wrong. It's striking to see how far the tech industry has shifted in this late stage era. I don't recognize the industry that used to inspire me. Can there be any doubt that the modern tech industry has lost its way? We need to reclai...
At the late stage of a paradigm, all of the problems bunch up into one meta-problem.
At the late stage of a paradigm, all of the problems bunch up into one meta-problem. But because each problem seems unrelated and small, you don't realize that there's...
Before the web everyone thought we were in the end state of history with no more applications to create.
...ere in the end state of history with no more applications to create. It was the late stage, stable. But the web revolutionized distribution and blew it all open. The app/web distribution channel is so locked down today there were no new hyp...
The consumer tech ecosystem has been stagnant for a decade.
The consumer tech ecosystem has been stagnant for a decade. It's late stage; dominated by a few hyper-scale offerings. That means that most PMs today that work on consumer things have only ever learned to add features to an a...
An idea from a friend I can't get out of my head: "No country in the world lets tourists vote."
...hould have on the direction of it. It feels like so much of the problems of the late stage environment we live in is giving shareholders–who could have just acquired the stock yesterday and sell it tomorrow–so much say over what companies d...
In the late stage the power dynamics don't change.
In the late stage the power dynamics don't change. Let's hope we're in the early stage of the AI era.
The open web as we knew it is now a zombie.
...ng, the loop doesn't close. That deal has been on life support for years in the late stage of the web. A post-apocalyptic hellscape of human-generated slop drowning under a grotesque dogpile of ads. But now LLMs put a stake through the hear...
Search engines should coevolve with their ecosystem.
...ngines should coevolve with their ecosystem.[abc][abd][abe] Search engines in a late stage ecosystem are massive, complex beasts. But at the very beginning of the ecosystem, they can be simple and small. Then, as the ecosystem grows, you it...
Centralization is a late stage phenomena within a technical paradigm.
Centralization is a late stage phenomena within a technical paradigm. When a new disruptive paradigm blossoms, everyone applies the late stage playbook of the last era to it. That'...
The AI native software ecosystem must not be a walled garden.
... era of "oops, all walled gardens." But that's more an artifact of being at the late stage of this last technical paradigm, the hyper efficient hyper competitive part. If all of humanity's potential thriving is in this new software ecosyste...
Aggregators can't allow turing complete things within themselves.
...ns aggregators can't grow beyond a certain size. When they start growing in the late stage, they look unstoppable, but in a new disruptive epoch that size is a liability.
Building technology is primarily an engineering problem.
...u can't tackle social problems with engineering approaches. Tech today, in this late stage of this era, is not about technology but about business.
Technology on its own is great, an optimistic force for humanity's thriving.
...y; it just so happens to be where we ended up within this set of physics in the late stage. So let's change it! Now is the time to reset the power dynamics, given that we have a disruptive technology bursting onto the scene. The birth of a ...
Sometimes early momentum traps you, a phenomena you could call creating a tech island.
...of history. This dynamic only happens in the early stage of a paradigm, not the late stage.
The defining characteristic of "late stage X" is centralization.
The defining characteristic of "late stage X" is centralization. Centralization creates efficiency and high leverage. But it's brittle, corruptible, and dangerous. A hollowed out existence, a ...
Something is late stage when everything is done for perception first and foremost.
Something is late stage when everything is done for perception first and foremost. The kayfabe overwhelms the ground truth. Everyone is hyper aware of how everyone else perc...
"Late stage" means the finance bro vibe has infected it.
"Late stage" means the finance bro vibe has infected it. You see things like: Hustle porn. "Obviously it's all about maximizing returns in the short term. What e...