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dangus • last Wednesday at 6:14 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The majority of businesses fail within 5 years.

Are they using AI because it’s better or because they have no other choice?

If I hire two sandwich artists for 6 months but nobody buys my sandwiches, I don’t have much choice but to fire them.

This word “pivot” is strong.

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CharlieDigital • last Wednesday at 9:36 PM

    > Are they using AI because it’s better
Because it's better (versus the engineers they were able to hire).

    > If I hire two sandwich artists for 6 months but nobody buys my sandwiches
Pivot is strong and in both cases where they went n -> 1, the pivots were dramatic. One went from building a (credit) card switching SDK to building a legal assistant AI. One went from building a fin-tech compliance product to a CRM for managing collections.

Because they went back to the drawing board, they ended up letting go of their teams and started using AI to build MVPs and then found that they could ship faster and better.

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