Yeah that was another choice quote for sure. We make the LLMs in our own image, and maybe thats not the best idea.

To be fair, some of the LLMs like Claude had a higher profitability than humans. The average human made 800 bucks in this business and one of the latest Claude models made 2700, so it searched, picked its inventory well and achieved results. The only thing is that humans were profitable 100 percent of the time and if they experienced existential dread, they were good at hiding it from HR.

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Yeah I have been following him for awhile, he has some great takes on things.

Aptera has a 15 year history now of only producing prototypes and being restructured/resold. Granted there were some problems not caused by the current founders but the marketing is misleading as to exactly where they are and when they will actually be able to build these damn cars. I am no longer a believer. There is a reason why there are no major VCs behind this, even though they were enthusiastic over a decade ago. During the same time Tesla became a household word, and Nio and Rivian came into being and actually produced more than prototypes. Why are they so uninvestible? Why did all these other companies get the big investor dollars and not them? Why all these years, and no product? Each question seems to lead to other things that just don’t make sense.

I got taken in by their promo 5 years ago, wanted it so much to be real, but the “factory” as of one year ago doesn’t have any actual machines despite raising millions of dollars. The influencers literally just do the factory tour which is like 5 places where there are presentations, and follow the yellow markings where the “factory machines” will be. But its all made up. They can literally fold up shop in a day or two and be gone. Pretty long standing grift though, you have to give them that. The influencers all who are incentivized are the only thing keeping it going.