Previously Unmanufacturable
Software's hidden cost is learning its grammar. AI lets a founder speak English & use CAD to make a dress once previously unmanufacturable.
Software's hidden cost is learning its grammar. AI lets a founder speak English & use CAD to make a dress once previously unmanufacturable.
Today's AI doesn't learn after it's trained. Test-time training changes that, & the tradeoff it creates, one model per user instead of one model for everyone, may be the more efficient architecture despite what it costs a GPU provider to serve.
Open-weight models keep catching closed frontier systems on Chatbot Arena Elo, 2023-2026, but have not materially led.
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
Some founders raise $100m on an idea. Others struggle for $2m. The difference is personal cost of capital, & Musk's SpaceX IPO proves its power.
Frontier model prices keep rising while open-source crosses the good enough line. Coinbase, Lindy, Harvey & Cursor are substituting — & the savings go straight back into more tokens.
Email volumes will explode. The inbox will disappear. Email will persist as an API.
As engineering teams shrink and AI agents multiply, key-person risk becomes existential. The ratio you choose determines your team's shape and its fragility.
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