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AI can radically compress the startup development cycle
AI can radically compress the startup development cycle
Altman argues that AI coding tools can reduce work that once took startups months into dramatically shorter periods, allowing entrepreneurs to build products, test ideas and obtain customer feedback much faster.
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- Sam Altman
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- 16:57
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