[dlev_pika]

> what a platform really achieves is to harness the creative energy of the entire tech industry, so that you don’t have to invent everything yourself and massively more stuff gets built at massive scale

I hear this, but every time I look the platforms have captured another use case that the startup ecosystem built (eg images, knowledge summarization, coding, music).

The sector is already littered with the corpses of the innovators that got swallowed by the platforms’ aggressiveness to do it all.