# Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI? - Jim Nielsen

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https://notes.jim-nielsen.com/n/2026-08-13-1301/

> Paul Ford on the Aboard podcast, speaking on the state of the software industry, how projects get funded, and how to think about OpenAI and Anthropic:
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> "What it feels now is two or three monoliths have showed up, and everyone is sort of like in [2001: A Space Odyssey], just a monkey looking up worshiping them. And the VCs are like, “If you worship the obelisk hard enough, we will give you bananas.” That is the software industry today."
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> Also a good warning here: if it’s too easy, if you’re enjoying yourself, you’re probably not building good real, useful software.