Benedict Evans
thebenedictevans.bsky.social
Benedict Evans
@thebenedictevans.bsky.social
Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Mostly tech.

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This is a good expression of the bemusement that people who build companies have for the whole 'enshittification' idea (if they thought about it at all).

Do you want to build something that's used a lot by a lot of people, or are you running an unambitious lifestyle business?
April 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It’s always interesting to read threads by people taking about ‘generative AI stealing from artists’ and then go to look at art where the concept of ‘stealing’ or ‘copying’ is meaningless (unless a cat-burglar is involved). Two totally different concepts of what ‘art’ means.
March 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is hilarious
February 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
How many people in tech think that one of these is worth the other?
That AI executive order was really dumb. Amazingly, terribly dumb. But.
January 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It isn't news that Microsoft plans to spend $80bn on capex in the 12m to June this year... but it is worth pointing out the context.
If only there was one kind of pattern-recognition system that could tell you how charts like this tend to play out.
January 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is projection of your own preoccupations on people who don’t share them.

No one building LLMs spends any time thinking about this stuff. They’re not interested.

But if they did, they would open an economics text book and tell you that automation has generally been good for workers
December 28, 2024 at 8:59 AM
The history of automation is full of stories of individual groups of privileged workers who lost out… but it’s extremely hard to see automation overall as ever having been bad for workers.
December 28, 2024 at 8:54 AM
For example
December 7, 2024 at 7:29 PM
We have seen this movie before and we know the ending
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 17, 2024 at 11:30 PM