moated

We start where the breakthrough is moated by hardware, access to knowledge, and IP.

Network effects and an as-yet insufficient friction to leave en masse has kept LI in a semi-moated space.

Because LLM companies take away the hardfought control gained by the the individual from their moated castle?

Let’s not kid ourselves, there is little concern for real value creation but a capture-the-flag on a gigantic data-moated compute monopoly.

Their marketing was so strong (plus, they strengthened it with access journalism) and features so moated, they could do no wrong.

One type of domain that _is_ moated, is game development - because you can't throw cash in and get creativity out.

Figuring out a solution would require cooperation, pragmatic lawmaking, and giving up those nice cashcows of moated portals, so it won't happen.

They’re not going to be fabbing their own chips so maybe it’s an attempt to shore up other areas that are less moated.

I’d rather have unrestricted AI than moated regulatory capture paid for by the largest existing players.

Unfortunately, it's highly likely that you'd be outcompeted if your domain is not moated with a tech that others cannot replicate by throwing cash.

Of course someone was going to decide that vinyl -- started as fringe genuine/hipster, and turned into marketable lifestyle -- had been milked or moated.

He did construct a fortress in the highest peaks, moated with a sea of salt, for it is known that the humble snail shuns the stuff.

I can't see them being "moated" (in the parlance of Buffet) leaders in their respective businesses.

Encouraging lazy and unoriginal drone manufacture in moated "made in USA" assembly lines is precisely the low-end type of job that "no one wants to do" and will inevitably produce the least capable drones the least efficiently or profitably.

Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system.

Moated pleasure gardens with a nationwide high-tech surveillance panopticon contains, and increasingly pressurizes, unknown and silent frustrated penury `precarity' and unknown and silent political discontent.