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Comment by gonzalohm | Hacker News Reader

I guess this is the world we live in now. All companies no matter which sector they belong to must buy AI crap.

A few years ago, companies buying random companies from a completely different sector was frowned upon by stakeholders

It’s also so strange how they all play the exact same game. Everybody creates pretty much the same products. Every software company will have a chatbot, an agentic harness, a model router, and whatever will be the next trend. It’s not an ecosystem where we see lots of different ideas with some crazy, some failing, some succeeding, it really feels like it’s a single same bet and all SF companies are sort of acting like one homogeneous meta company

Same happened at the start of the cloud era; everyone created a YT competitor, Twitter clones, MySpace clones, a cloud platform to host on (though it was just a wrapper around AWS like wrappers we see around OpenAI [looking at you Heroku])

Big tech emails leaked during a trial over a decade ago; C-level types agreed they need not truly compete and see each other as one big company.

Screen based filter bubble living has kept the digital generation ignorant; it's all built on the same physical principles. No point pretending, at their level, they're doing anything truly different

Mirror neurons are a helluva drug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron

Society evolves slowly as generational churn is not fast

Interesting parallel

we (Ramp) didn't buy anything, we built a model router in house!

"create a cloudflare worker that proxies requests to any number of neoclouds. make no mistakes."

Ramp showed up late into a market and have had more success than almost every company who tried before them. They seem to have some execution skill.

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