That's exactly my point...

So you had separate companies making the product and providing the "as a service" (e.g. Toyota & NYC Yellow Cab).

In other words, you can't compare car manufacturing to LLM model research and training. They're two different beasts any way you look at it.

But car manufacturing grew up in a very different economic and cultural time, when companies very often did not or could not build a product and sell it as a service because it still required a human to be providing that service, which complicates such a business greatly.

Tbh, that would probably be a more lucrative business model for them. I believe that's what companies like Waymo are trying to do.

The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a ...

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I would posit that one of the reasons SV companies fail at unlocking the siloed talent in their orgs is also the obsession with "technical" management, without understanding which technical aspects actually matter in management

I 1000% agree that the ultra-wealthy are only so because of others' labor and that the wealth gap is absolutely ridiculous. But I can't help but think that this is the wrong question. It's not about "hard work". Aren't higher wages usually given for working at higher levels of abstraction and scope?