Oreos are over 100 years old

The Oreo is over 100 years old, 114 years old to be exact.

When you find product-market fit, things stick. Human nature is human nature. People want what they want.

The best way to appeal to future generations is to appeal to past generations.

Things survive in proportion to their current age. That's the Lindy effect. Oreos should be around for at least another 114 years.

So does this apply to AI? Is AI Lindy?

Look at the desire underneath the technology.

How long have people wanted to create digital tools? Well, the first website was published in 1991.

How old is the oldest painting for art's sake that we know of? A hand stencil in Sulawesi is at least 67,800 years old. The earliest figurative painting is at least 51,200.

Creation is Lindy. People want to build. They just lacked the tools or skills.

Vibe coding is here to stay. People seem to binge LLM tokens the same way I binge a line of Oreos.

Let the people build.