one popular theory is that research paper alpha* and lab publishing ~died when researchers realized that instead of fighting with marketing …

one popular theory is that research paper alpha* and lab publishing ~died when researchers realized that instead of fighting with marketing depts they could simply walk out the door and get >$100m for their legally protected tacit knowledge gained california non-noncompetes have a bigger impact on knowledge spreading than github, arxiv, and huggingface combined *btw this is a motivator for me to set up @aidotengineer as a product-centric industry conference to complement the paper-centric research conferences @beffjezos the sheer dollar quantity of ip leakage from openai has been just tremendous, probably in the trillions. openai truly has been quite open

Source: Swyx (X) | 2026-06-07