I thought Stratechery's piece on Agents and Bubbles was interesting.
I thought Stratechery's piece on Agents and Bubbles was interesting. But I think Ben is making an error in thinking that the harnesses inherently have strategic power. All...
Topic: Stratechery
13 mentions · 15 chunks · 15 episodes
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- Stratechery appears in 15 chunks across 15 episodes, from 2023-11-13 to 2026-03-23.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 11/13/23 (2023-11-13), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with OpenAI, ChatGPT, and llms, while by chunk count it sits between Copilot and app model; its yearly rank moved from #45 in 2023 to #102 in 2026.
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Stratechery points out why OpenAI had to do ads… and what a hard road that is.
Stratechery points out why OpenAI had to do ads… and what a hard road that is.
Stratechery: "it seems likely that LLMs have already generated more text than all of humanity ever has; the reason I cannot know is the same reason why it hasn't left a mark: AI content is generated individually for each individual user of AI."
Stratechery: "it seems likely that LLMs have already generated more text than all of humanity ever has; the reason I cannot know is the same reason why it hasn't...
When Apps in GPT launched, Sam Altman did an interview on Stratechery.
When Apps in GPT launched, Sam Altman did an interview on Stratechery. He said something along the lines of "We could have done the Zillow features ourselves… but we wanted to do something benevolent to help out 3P comp...
I disagree with Stratechery's take that OpenAI has a Windows Play.
I disagree with Stratechery's take that OpenAI has a Windows Play. An open system can be on top of a proprietary system if the proprietary system can't cut someone else off on t...
Stratechery: "Oracle is arguably the best argument yet for the vigor that comes from founder control."
Stratechery: "Oracle is arguably the best argument yet for the vigor that comes from founder control." "Vigor" and "vitality" mean "live player" means an entity ...
Stratechery on the GPT5 Model upgrade:
Stratechery on the GPT5 Model upgrade: "Would building on AI be like building for the PC in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where you wrote an application that b...
Once you are tied to a category, it's hard to escape it.
... are tied to a category. True for people and for products. Important point from Stratechery in Paradigm Shifts and the Winner's Curse: "To go back to the smartphone paradigm, the best way to have analyzed what would happen to the market woul...
We're in the portals era of AI.
We're in the portals era of AI. Excerpts from the Stratechery interview of Bret Taylor: "When portals dominated and directories dominated, the web tended to be small because you needed to be a presence on these ...
Great quote from Stratechery this week:
Great quote from Stratechery this week: "The danger for Apple is that trying to keep AI in a box in its current paradigm will one day be seen like Microsoft trying to keep the In...
Fiction is easier to differentiate than the news.
...also hard to defend other outlets just reposting the same facts you discovered. Stratechery has long talked about the Smiling Curve in media: as distribution friction declines, the hyper-niches and the hyper-schelling points thrive, and ever...
I thought the Stratechery interview with Ben Evans on AI was interesting.
I thought the Stratechery interview with Ben Evans on AI was interesting. A few of my highlights: "[LLMs] are good at things that don't have wrong answers."[vp] "With an inter...
A few quotes from Stratechery last week that caught my attention.
A few quotes from Stratechery last week that caught my attention. "Cheapness creates scale, which makes things even cheaper, and the ultimate output is entirely new markets." "A b...
Companies don't make strategic choices in a vacuum.
...a vacuum, it's influenced by what others think they're doing. For example, what Stratechery thinks your strategy is almost certainly influences what your strategy actually is. In a slime mold of an organization, a strategy that sounds plausi...
I thought this distillation of Clayton Christensen's theory in the OpenAI Stratechery piece last week was valuable:
I thought this distillation of Clayton Christensen's theory in the OpenAI Stratechery piece last week was valuable: "Professor Clayton Christensen's theory of integration and modularity, wherein integration works better when a product ...