How accurate have ears

Not about Zitron specifically -- I don't read his newsletter (it's basically word vomit these days), but his interviews are marginally interesting. One of the quotes in the linked article is totally correct:

Jj is one of the few who successfully monetized bad predictions, making him a step ahead of the rest of us. If we sample from Zitron's claims, a lot of things I didn't know about before, and certainly wasn't a net negative. This is interesting. I wonder if that was substanciated, since it overlaps with the bubble portrait of the "coming" wall of due service contracts hitting in 2027.

Okay, it was a bit of research. I honestly think with the progression of SOTA LLMs it should not be long now before everyone can simply ride their own custom flavor of Chromium. This kind of back and forth reminds me of "The Dragons Are Coming" running joke. What they have in common with Ed Zitron is that they are both trying to sell you something.

Where are you guys in SF? Would love to see broken down counter example of public company. So far Chegg and Duolingo have been devastated. Surely they could cut costs drastically with AI? They're real fun. I'm building a vacuum tube computer and want to multitask in between agentic feedback. Some people obviously want AI to fail. Some people obviously want The Magic Machines to win.