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or get requests with query params already handles this in majority of the cases, unless the query size is too big (which ideally should not be the case since in the end it is a get request)

This theory seems to be BS, If let us say a founder is raising a seed round of 2m at 20m valuation, then according to hypothetical accrual tax rate, they would need to pay a tax of ~ 3-4m.

Google is successful and it's page rank algorithm also does not deliver correct results all the times.

There's no such thing as a correct result to a search query. It certainly delivered exactly what was asked for, a grep of the web, sorted by number of incoming links.

They also don't use it at all anymore, they barely even care about your search query.

Google is successful, however, because they innovated once, and got enough money together as a result to buy Doubleclick. Combining their one innovation with the ad company they bought enabled them to buy other companies.


Yes if Clippy was released in 2025, it would surely be stealing your data without thinking twice.

So basically like Bonzai Buddy, the first spyware that tried to help you search stuff

Is it ? In gambling your odds are fixed, but in real life, wouldn't you get better at solving problems with each iteration ?


Depends - are you meaningfully trying to improve or do you keep doing the same thing over and over not getting it?

I think there is one counter argument, LLMs are speeding up everything, including the speed of learning, which also implies that companies that might have bad processes would learn and move to good processes as well on the way.

Example, one of many things, in our SDLC process, now we have test cases and documentation which never existed before (coming from a startup).


Probably the OP might have used LLM's to structure the document, but the sentiment `Automating stupidity = faster stupidity` is a great take away.


If having a strong SEO strategy was worth 100 points two years ago, how many points would you assign to it in today’s environment? Has its importance increased, decreased, or shifted in nature ?


Still a 100, now your SEO is also feeding ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, etc... You want to have content and rankings for the future...


Reminds me of the Apple vs Pear law suit

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/apple-sues-small-...

The dispute was settled because Pear agreed to slightly alter its logo, instead of continuing full litigation (maybe because of resources / dollars it would consume)


It has started to backfire.

Claude also had to a pay almost 1.5b for illegally training / scrapping.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/business/anthropic-ai-settlem...


IIUC that was for illegally downloading ebooks and other media -- it had nothing to do with training per se. Scraping publicly accessible data is generally legal, although Microsoft/LinkedIn clearly think they have enough of a leg to stand on to at least litigate this.


anthropic was _not_ sued for including data scraped from public websites. they were sued for including data extracted from pirated books.


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