Dev satirizes AI labs: why buy clicks when you can spend on marketing to raise funding
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-16
A pointed satire on the frothy AI funding era: rather than paying for meaningless click-through rates or fickle SaaS users, labs might as well spend money directly on marketing to acquire more private funding. The author quips that the labs doing this best are "winning" — profitable, as long as you don't subtract expenses.
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