Transformer architecture: an engineer demos chat-with-ai and gets shut down from above. OpenAI runs with it via ChatGPT and suddenly Google's playin catch-up with its own invention. Yet google controls distribution, capital, and the signature line. Medieval guilds understood this. Artisans owned their mark. You couldn't ship without your sign-off. Industrialization broke that pattern—factory owners captured what craftsmen produced. Now we're surprised when the pattern repeats in software?Read more →