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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Sam Altman’s unfettered attention to quality and details. This one is up there with Palantir in the list of companies that I hope will soon fail miserably and painfully.

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Hopefully Sam follows in the tradition of other transformational tech figures, like Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes

Palantir are a lot of things, incompetent they are not.

Yes, they're fascist. Or at least Alex Karp is.

Really? Of the two, you chose to name Karp as the fascist, not Thiel?

Well, Alex Karp is the current CEO and the one who put that fascist manifesto out recently.

Please note that I am not defending Peter Thiel as NOT a fascist. He absolutely is.

People I’ve spoken to in DoD strongly disagree with you there.

What are their complaints?

Things are hacked together, extremely difficult to change (without a pile of more hacks, Palantir is most interested in embedding itself deeper and manipulating RFPs than helping orgs operate more effectively, they waaaaaay overpromise during sales and can’t deliver, costs and timelines overrun by a lot, they’ll shift the goalposts by trying to sell the next Magic Fix before the first thing is finished (because they oversold/botched implementation) or has delivered value commensurate with its cost.

Perhaps. But they made $1.6 billion in net income in 2025, which, from a business perspective, makes them about $10.6 billion more competent than OpenAI.

We view competence differently. I value things outside of simply making money.

See: the crypto argument that it’s successful because number go up when it is almost entirely pump and dumps and money laundering.

I don’t view that as success, but people do.

You can view it however you want, but reality disagrees with you. Palantir's profit comes from real customers paying real money for their real products.

And it's hilarious that you would compare Palantir to a crypto pump-and-dump while claiming OpenAI creates more value and is more successful.

Competent at doing the things the DoD ought to do? Or competent at getting paid to do things for the DoD?

tell that to those Iranian school girls, oh wait you cant cause palantir is incompetent and those kids are dead

Bombing a school is the sort of "accident" that happened a lot before Ai and Palantir. Its as believeable an excuse as Ai is for the latest round of layoffs.

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