Hindsight is 20/20. The company I worked at went under because people questioned whether enough people would ever buy stuff over the internet to make the business viable. It was very much not obvious then.

> Gen-AI may be useful to some people, but it's not going to be a central feature of most people's lives—at least not in the forms it exists in today, or what can be clearly extrapolated from them…

The problem is that you are going to have to compete with people who are using AI. There is a learning curve, and some people are better at using it than others. Some people know how to use it really well.