'A 10x AI Slop Cannon Beats a 10x Engineer,' Says a16z Partner
cixliv · x · 2026-09-04
a16z partner Andrew Chen stirred debate with the take that a '10x AI slop cannon' beats a 10x engineer — mass AI content generation trumping elite engineering. cixliv replied that it's time to invest in hardware, tying the content-volume argument to the compute underneath it.
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