{"slug": "ask-hn-anyone-suffering-from-the-tyranny-of-the-waiting-equation", "title": "Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks whether others are struggling to invest in ideas—from side projects to startups—knowing that advances in AI could soon render any technical or operational moat obsolete, making a year or more of building potentially wasted. The user draws a parallel to a space exploration conundrum where waiting for faster technology might be better than launching a slow ship today. The post has 1 point and no comments.", "body_md": "In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the ship twice as fast, and we can get there earlier by waiting.\n\nIn this episode of \"how this translates to B2B sales,\" I ask if anyone else is struggling to invest in ideas (anywhere from side projects to startups) knowing that the frontier of AI might soon overlap any possible technical or operational moat that you spend a year or more building, and your entire business is just a one-shot prompt away (from either you, meaning you wasted time building, or your target customer, who no longer has a reason to pay you).\n\nHistorically it's always been better to Just Build, but this reality seems to be getting tougher to ignore.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060868](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060868)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-suffering-from-the-tyranny-of-the-waiting-equation", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060868", "published_at": "2026-07-26 18:24:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-26 18:52:52.358534+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-suffering-from-the-tyranny-of-the-waiting-equation", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-suffering-from-the-tyranny-of-the-waiting-equation.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-suffering-from-the-tyranny-of-the-waiting-equation.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-suffering-from-the-tyranny-of-the-waiting-equation.jsonld"}}