Almost done

This is a good expression of the bemusement that people who build companies have for the whole 'enshittification' idea (if they thought about it at all).

Do you want to build something that's used a lot by a lot of people, or are you running an unambitious lifestyle business?

It’s always interesting to read threads by people taking about ‘generative AI stealing from artists’ and then go to look at art where the concept of ‘stealing’ or ‘copying’ is meaningless (unless a cat-burglar is involved). Two totally different concepts of what ‘art’ means.

This is hilarious

How many people in tech think that one of these is worth the other?
That AI executive order was really dumb. Amazingly, terribly dumb. But.

It isn't news that Microsoft plans to spend $80bn on capex in the 12m to June this year... but it is worth pointing out the context.
If only there was one kind of pattern-recognition system that could tell you how charts like this tend to play out.

This is projection of your own preoccupations on people who don’t share them.

No one building LLMs spends any time thinking about this stuff. They’re not interested.

But if they did, they would open an economics text book and tell you that automation has generally been good for workers

The history of automation is full of stories of individual groups of privileged workers who lost out… but it’s extremely hard to see automation overall as ever having been bad for workers.

For example

We have seen this movie before and we know the ending
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