[Pinkthinker]

I think there is a ton of innovation, much of it taking advantage of the underlying hardware that has been getting more powerful and cheaper and therefore enabling things we didn’t previously dream of. Even little things like those car sensors that make the car shudder when you cross a lane line without indicating. Many of the YC companies seem to come up with things that in theory anybody else could have developed if only they had the imagination. I’ve developed a tool that writes complex reliable software - it wouldn’t be possible without other prior advances in hardware and software. And then there are the specialised businesses that piggyback on LLMs. There is no end of things you could do, and you can increasingly do them yourself.