For some people AI is an identity shock. For others it is oxygen.

• A lot of ideas used to die at: yeah, but imagine how much work that would be. Usually that was a perfectly rational reason not to try.
• Six months of engineering meant ideas needed an economic justification, which pushed software toward SaaS, VC-scale markets and things somebody could plausibly pay for.
• AI lowers that tax. Weird ideas that were irrational to build can suddenly be worth trying.
• The early web was exciting because nothing had been built yet. The AI web could be exciting because everything is cheap enough to build.
• Both conditions give people permission to be weird. AI doesn't just make existing software cheaper. It reopens the possibility space.

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