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I remember when people came to me after they saw 'the social network' to pitch me their ideas. I'd be doing all the work but I'd get like 30% or something, because the had the idea, which in their minds was the only thing that counted. The ideas were usually 'facebook, but with '.
These kind of people can now finally make their own apps, and the result is exactly as shit as you'd expect. Even worse due to garbage AI code.
Tech CEOs think they are the only creative people on the planet, and that their creativity is worth all the world's money.
Hard to say for sure, but it looks more like they're towards the bottom on the creativity scale.
In their very half-hearted defense, some total weirdo did become one of the richest humans ever by saying "Myspace, but more superficial and with Harvard's PR machine backing it." Several subhuman ghouls become insanely wealthy by saying "banking, but online". There was also "Walmart, but online", "record store but on the phone", "all this open source software but it's mine now", and several other giga-genius inno-venters.
Absolutely, ruthless opportunism definitely works. Especially for people with money. Paid-for expertise definitely produces a lot better apps than if the same people tried to do the design themselves.
They are all hitting the same hard truth: making the app is kind of the easy part