Quote of the day by former Intel CEO Andy Grove: 'Success breeds complacency' — accidental foreshadowing of his company's own decline
THE SO WHAT
The Grove quote is a reminder that process and paranoia, not brand or scale, determine who survives node and architecture transitions. If your AI or infra business is winning right now, the practical move is to institutionalize adversarial reviews and kill-switches on sacred products before the market does it for you.
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