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upvoteby misterbwong4 hours ago|
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It might become a triple-whammy benefit for them. More efficient compute, as you said, but also a bot capability creates a better moat around their infra ecosystem and the amount of training data that can come from a bot ecosystem is significant.

Models are becoming increasingly interchangeable but setting up and maintaining (!!) the ecosystem still takes expertise. Not everyone wants to host their own MicroVM infra and would happily pay Anthropic/Grok/OpenAI to do it for them.

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upvoteby shafyy3 hours ago|
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I don't know. I think the moat will come from enterprise deals and deep enterprise integration, like it does for almost all software products so far.

I think for B2C products to have moat you need some type of network like social media apps. Or can you think of any other examples of B2C software products that have a strong moat?

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upvoteby 3dd3ee2 hours ago|
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Lol please stop with this 'moats' discussion.

Moats become known ex-post not ex-ante. shake my head its getting boring! Every other post seems to be a moats and most of you haven't got a faintest clue of what a durable competitive advantage is and how it actually gets created.

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upvoteby ranyume2 hours ago|
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I like how you can exchange the word moat with monopoly.
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upvoteby theodorewiles11 minutes ago|
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yeah moats are bad for everyone who isn't a shareholder or employee so i don't get the concern for whether or not there's a moat, its like watching shark tank
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upvoteby ndhdjdjdj3 hours ago|
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upvoteby robgough2 hours ago|
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I just watched a YouTube video from How I AI[1] doing a bit of a preview on Duet. Their point was quite the opposite. The Duet agent is so slow that it's not actually particularly pleasant to use, even if it is smart. I tend to agree, and think speed is a key feature here. If it's not quick, it risks feeling disconnected.

I have, against my better wishes, rather given in to Grokbot over the last couple of weeks. It does feel very nice to use for assistant type tasks. At least part of that is because it feels pretty responsive.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYb5w4PfPZM

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upvoteby ttul57 minutes ago|
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Grok can be fast because X.ai does not worry about gross margins yet. They can tuck those nasty secrets away deep inside SpaceX…
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upvoteby lossolo3 hours ago|
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And there's also a lock in mechanism. With regular chat, you can simply switch to another provider, and with a harness or API, switching is pretty easy too but here, it's more difficult.
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