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This is a wild time capsule of an article to reread now... Whatever happened to Facebook "M"? And why did anyone ever think this would survive as a business model?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/make-magics-assistants-do-...

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Seems like "M" was just about 8 years too early, I bet their chats would be an amazing dataset for training LLM agents right about now.

Interest rates were low, near zero for seven years by 2016. It seemed like anything was possible because the funny money just kept coming in from investors with nowhere else to put it. The ideas didn’t have to make sense and they didn’t have to be profitable, it was the last days of Babylon and it seemed if you just reached out with an SMS you could get the Backstreet Boys at your birthday party.

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