#misc

OpenAI as an API provider is easy to replace with another service like Google’s, so most developers (and even users) regularly switch LLM providers as new capabilities emerge, and prices change. So far, there doesn’t appear to be any moat for any of these models.

A trend I’ve noticed amongst the most effective people I know is that many of them are keeping a personal knowledge base (which you could also call a personal wiki, a professional journal, or many other things). This is clearly a trend beyond my immediate network, given the glut of new tools at least partially designed with this purpose in mind (e.g., Notion, Craft, Clover, Roam Research, or Obsidian). I started my personal knowledge base in 2010 (using Evernote) and it has been incredibly valuable to me throughout my career, so it has been great to see this trend take off recently.