FYI, I am not sponsored by meta at all. I just really love cool stuff … and sadly most of the ai products we have right know are seriously uncool. This is because they are built by people who aren’t cool in the first place, it’s just engineers building for other engineers who think the whole world is made of code and everything runs in a terminal. Apple was the most valuable company on earth for over a decade because of one simple reason. ANYONE could pick up an iPhone and use it and get value out of it, from young kids to grandmothers. You don’t have the equivalent of that today in AI, we just have a bunch of nerds with psychosis and early signs of schizophrenia who would rather talk down to their users and tell them AI is too dangerous and is going to kill everyone… that’s not grandma friendly. I think people forget that technology and knowledge by extension is the great equalizer. Many will try to gate keep this stuff but I give kudos to meta for actually innovating in this domain and making a product anyone can use while still being fun and friendly! Muse is 1,000x more valuable and important than just another coding model with a 2% eval bump that everyone will pretend is great and will just be used to write unit tests. The bottleneck was never the model it was the fact that you have no taste, no agency, and for that reason you don’t build anything impactful. You know what’s really impactful? An agent that is personalized to me, that gets my jokes, knows my taste, has my swag. A thing that knows me inside and out is worth a hundred times more than a thing that knows everything else but that and always talks down to me. This should be a stark warning to all the AI labs, you risk alienating your users more by patronizing them and limiting their experience. There is only so much coding market share left and what comes after that is just ten times harder and more difficult to monetize instead of just doing good for your users. Good luck 👍 & shout out Meta for really delivering a game changing experience !
