alt.hn

4/17/2026 at 1:10:29 AM

AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups

https://twitter.com/_iainmartin/status/2044758204773486925

by harambae

4/17/2026 at 6:42:29 AM

This is extremely good news and they should also buy their codebase. There’s a lot of alpha in buying dead people’s WhatsApp chat history and so on

by simianwords

4/17/2026 at 7:31:10 AM

This makes me wonder...do AI companies actually train their public models also on their own code?

by blablabla123

4/17/2026 at 10:02:09 AM

Alpha?

by Bombthecat

4/17/2026 at 3:32:12 PM

alpha is your abnormal rate of return

more colloquially it's your 'edge' over your competitors

by ej88

4/17/2026 at 10:06:20 AM

Now you can build a failed startup with the help of AI!

by chmod775

4/17/2026 at 1:48:42 AM

Slop in, slop out.

by kittikitti

4/17/2026 at 6:21:22 PM

This is closer to failure in, failure out.

by nitwit005

4/17/2026 at 2:44:38 AM

yeah but it's my slop!

by kushie