There’s always a moat, but it’s often just
1. not obvious, and/or
2. not appreciated
The best biz come from these hard won, novel insights
But how sound smart wen me, le smarty smart smart, need say smart-sounding thing about ai moat? Slopthinking max @ 2k context window:
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the models have no moat (OpenAI, Anthropic, XAI)
the IDEs have no moat (Cursor, Windsurf)
the harnesses have no moat (Cognition, Factory, LangChain)
the app builders have no moat (Replit, Lovable, Bolt)
the wrappers have no moat (Harvey, Abridge, OpenEvidence)
the inference providers have no moat (Together, Fireworks, Groq)
the voice layer has no moat (Sierra, Decagon, ElevenLabs)
the data labeling companies have no moat (Scale, Surge, Mercor)
the AI infrastructure has no moat (Baseten, Modal, Railway)
the neoclouds have no moat (CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe)
the generative media companies have no moat (Runway, Higgsfield, Suno)
apparently nobody in AI has a moat
except the venture firm ☠️
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