TBPN — FULL INTERVIEW: Doug O'Laughlin Thinks Microsoft is OUT of the AI Race

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FULL INTERVIEW: Doug O'Laughlin Thinks Microsoft is OUT of the AI Race

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This is our full interview with Doug O'Laughlin, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss why Claude Code feels like a true inflection point, how agent swarms and orchestration could replace large parts of today’s SaaS stack, hyperscaler capex, Nvidia supply constraints, and why knowledge work is about to change faster than…

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