This weekend, a Medium article called "I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups. 146 Are Selling You Repackaged ChatGPT and Claude with New UI" made it to the front page of Hacker News. The author found that out of 200 AI startups, "73% are running third-party APIs with extra steps." The author also found that at least one company was putting a 1000x markup on model API costs. We discuss at length:

Mark Cuban on the next big job students should focus on: Most companies don’t know how to implement AI, especially small businesses. “Companies don’t understand how to implement AI right now to get a competitive advantage… learn to customize a model, walk into a company, show the benefits. That is every single job that’s going to be available for kids coming out of school.” Don’t just study AI. Make it work inside a business. From our August 2025 interview with @mcuban .