I've [argued](https://benconrad.net/posts/230717_fundingOpenSource/) that oss developers need to have real world use information in order to ship good software. Contra some here, I think oss developers that don't understand how users use their software can't maintain or improve it.

> What limits AI creation is not base creation but creating things that satisfy people. And determining what will satisfy people is much more the domain of influencers than AI, and this sounds like jobs that filter AI outputs for market success.

https://benconrad.net/posts/230610_influencingScarcity/

There's pretty clearly a law of conserved latency, that users will gladly suffer x latency for y capability, with capability complexifying until things are too slow, requiring then hw/sw stack upgrades to make it all fast again, while overall capability utilization decreases

Too bad they chose the wrong differentiation, when Neeva launched I wrote: "if I were Neeva, I'd attempt to make search a better experience, by providing better results and context than Google does. I'd classify users according to their search history/sophistication and prefer results that other users in their class have found helpful, while at the same time making clear that the results are tailored based on their search history and offering a way to remove the class restriction. Search that uses my and other users search history to become better, in a transparent way, that's what I'd subscribe to." http://benconrad.net/posts/200629_searchingForInformation/

I wish analytics had an 'audience view' to help communities understand themselves.