Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI?

Paul Ford on the Aboard podcast, speaking on the state of the software industry, how projects get funded, and how to think about OpenAI and Anthropic: What it feels now is two or three monoliths have showed up, and everyone is sort of like in [ 2001: A Space Odyssey ], just a monkey looking up worshiping them. And the VCs are like, “If you worship the obelisk hard enough, we will give you…