> If the market is filled with cheap products and a clone of your product can be easily made, then the survival of the business is in positioning, marketing, packaging the product, distribution, sales...

Most people stop after having gotten their dopamine hit. It was the case before, it's still the case now with AI.

Try any newly released software, and you'll notice a trove of issues, whether it's UX, UI, features not working properly. Errors, etc. All of the unsexy work that is needed to go from "it works" to "thousands / millions of people can rely on it daily".

Playing the long game has always worked, and will always work.

There are two ways forward for any company (whether big or small):

- Expand the pie: push AI to its limits while keeping your employees, new markets, new offerings

- Keep the same pie, and increase the size of the slices among the shareholders (employees or not)