Robin Sloan on LLM company ‘Labs’:

“Lab” evokes Bell Labs, of course; it evokes deep science, Nobel Prize-level horsepower, a certain purity. I don’t deny that there are labs inside these companies … although I don’t believe any of them are operating with anywhere near the distance from practicality that Bell Labs maintained. And, either way, when you are hiring “Growth Account Executives”, you are a company.