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Entry price comes when time is unclear. Winning is the only thing that counts when time is huge. If you're not seeing massive TAM expansion, there's just no point in even playing as VCs. The late stage business is either the best business in the world or the worst business in the world, and there's nothing you can do to determine which it is. Coding is no longer on this extremely steep improvement path.
As the models improve in performance dramatically, people switch. To say that would be ugly would be an understatement. It would be terrifying. I mean, beyond terrifying. I think we're at a point where if there's some wobble, the magnitude of the correction will be fast and brutal.
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