Lessin: LLMs will break platform lock-in by reconstructing messy export files
Sam Lessin · OpenAI Teams Up with Jony Ive, Vibe Coding, Gemini, and More | More or Less #100 · More or Less Podcast · May 23, 2025 · at 39:03
Sam Lessin (Slow Ventures) and Dave Morin debate whether AI models will build consumer lock-in through proprietary context and history.
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“The funny thing about LLMs is, like, LLMs are excellent at this. Like, if you just, like, download your Twitter data right now, and you're like, hey, can you just, like, give this me in, like, one flat file? Like, they'll never give it to you that way. They'll give it to you in, like, a bunch of pieces you can't use. But, like, the LLMs are really good at reconstructing this stuff. And so I actually think data portability goes way up, because you can't use file formats to, like, break things anymore. That just means there's gonna be incredible portability between these things.”
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