Oh I'm not accusing them of sponsoring content; I am confident that these journos are of the opinion that these are fantastic ideas/plans that need to be reported on. I don't truly understand why they think that, but that's probably just me not being a journo.

What I wonder about is what is driving these people to publish pre-execution, with only theoretical moats, which in turn leads me to think: _is the article the moat?_

Some media coverage definitely helps. FYI: Ars Technica doesn’t take sponsored content!

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I find myself wondering if nowadays, to get funded for your AI-adjacent "idea", you need to get some press first?

. Like breh... that was solved 20 seconds after Claude Code was released. But apparently this is news. 

The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

I find myself wondering if nowadays, to get funded for your AI-adjacent "idea", you need to get some press first?

Another example: last night, @Car's share (https://stacker.news/items/1489097/r/optimism) lead me to read, on that same site, [a piece about solving "the open terminal dependency" for CLI coding](https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/reck-connect-wants-to-free-ai-coding-from-the-fragile-laptop). Like breh... that was solved 20 seconds after Claude Code was released. But apparently this is news. ~lol