Jack Flintoft

If AI agents replacing service businesses created billions of dollars in outcomes for the economy, autonomous robots replacing service-based businesses will create an order of magnitude more. Intelligent service sectors…

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For the past 20 years, SaaS operated under the economics of high fixed cost + low marginal cost. When making a software product, you would sink massive swaths of capital…

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There’s a common narrative going around right now about how AI will transform into a commodity business. “The cost of intelligence will go towards ZERO!” — they profess like millenarians.…

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The objection that many have against large language models being “intelligent” is that they do not understand the words which they are using (basically, that LLMs manipulate symbols without knowing…

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Humans as a species have a remarkable ability to conjure up new jobs almost out of thin air. Eighty years ago, “child care worker” as a formal job title basically…

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident — Arthur Schopenhauer Every founder walks into a pitch…

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Being back in Australia, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet founders and students tackling important (and oftentimes, crazy) problems. But the startup ecosystem here feels structurally different from the U.S.…

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