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  "content_md": "Hmmmm.\n\n> The example I always give young computer scientists is, what do you think motivated Google to do the research behind “Attention Is All You Need“? If you talk to that team, they wanted the 3% improvement in Google Translate. You cannot think of something more prosaic leading to something more profound. So we should be very careful where we give up — we buy a little too much into comparative advantage and give up the stimulus for production.\n\n[An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War  Stratechery by Ben Thompson ↗](https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-about-the-ai-religious-war)",
  "content_html": "<p>Hmmmm.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The example I always give young computer scientists is, what do you think motivated Google to do the research behind “Attention Is All You Need“? If you talk to that team, they wanted the 3% improvement in Google Translate. You cannot think of something more prosaic leading to something more profound. So we should be very careful where we give up — we buy a little too much into comparative advantage and give up the stimulus for production.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-about-the-ai-religious-war\">An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War  Stratechery by Ben Thompson ↗</a></p>",
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