{"id":4380,"date":"2025-05-26T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T12:01:54","slug":"eating-your-own-dog-food-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/05\/eating-your-own-dog-food-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Your Own Dog Food (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some new AI companies are using AI so that they only have a couple dozen humans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifteen years ago I blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/05\/eating-your-own-dog-food\/\">eating your own dog food<\/a>. Not a nice phrase, but a good point about using my own products. If others should buy and use my products, so should I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I note a good example of people doing this. There are a couple dozen new AI companies that already have products on the market. These new companies only have a couple dozen employees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-startup-unicorns-with-tiny-teams-2025-5\">They use AI to build AI<\/a>, i.e., they are eating their own dog food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aha! This AI stuff must work. How else could just a handful of people build systems that are like those produced by BIG TECH companies with thousands of employees? And if you only have 20 employees, you don&#8217;t need much office space, many HR persons, big conference rooms, and all those things that are necessary when there are hundreds and thousands of employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And with all those overhead expenses reduced, well, there is a lot of money sitting around for other things. Let our minds wander about what to do with all that money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Some new AI companies are using AI so that they only have a couple dozen humans. Fifteen years ago I blogged about eating your own dog food. Not a nice phrase, but a good point about using my own products. If others should buy and use my products, so should I. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,106,20,42,67],"tags":[470,220,142,164,187],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-knowledge","category-learning","category-process","category-work","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-knowledge","tag-learning","tag-process","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}