lest you think he's too much of a fuddy-duddy, ken's SCaLE talk is worth a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=kaandEt_…
Syntactically convoluted sentence after syntactically convoluted sentence, the only message that comes through is:
That Hexagone Balard planner was wrong about the cocaine. You get Dien Bien Phu by planners smoking opium or even just taking four hour lunches with as many bottles of wine. You get an American airstrip inside hostile territory with Zyn and Celsius and pure American elan. Now imagine what else that buys you as a country serious about making war, and making the world safe for our common interests. Quite a lot better than begging to pay ransoms on a few paltry hulls the enemy will deign to let pass.
There is still time to join us, and rediscover how to act as a great power should act.
Quick tip: any startup idea built purely on vibe-coded software, no matter how smart or useful it is, won’t be seen as defensible. Anyone with the same subscription plan can copy it and build the same thing.
That is the new rule: if it is just software, and it can be built quickly, it can also be copied quickly.
If your product does not touch the real world in some meaningful way, or do something LLMs still can’t do, then you’re exposed.The industry knows this. People just tend to discuss it quietly, behind closed doors.
A good software idea is not enough anymore.
A lead of months or even years is not enough anymore.
The real search now is for something that is hard to copy.
Ya'll worried about AI Coding slop, when there as an entire army of n8n experts who are installing unmaintainable visual workflow spaghetti in small/medium sized businesses at scale
Literal merchants of complexity. Its so much worse than using claude code. It's an artifact of being stuck 6 months in the past and n8n is all you know.






