Its the first player past the goal post problem, the first alchemist will crash the gold market but he will be insanely rich. You can see this with advertisers, when a new approach is found they all rush to it. They know its going to kill it soon, but the first few will get that sweet sweet revenue before the public catches on.

AI art will poison the well, but someone will make the few bucks that can be extracted before it happens.

Always thought it was a strange objection. Obviously the argument proves too much: by the same logic there is no point in inventing or operating say a wheel; the price of pots will just fall to the price of clay. Of course that isn't true, you make money hand over fist until reaching some kind of perfect competition again once everyone else catches up, at which point it becomes merely a living.

Wow this article is an amazing rorschach test! Each defensive comment here is a person defending what he thinks this article is personally attacking him on!

What you see as defensiveness, I see as reasonable replies to a very silly faux-inspirational post.

Have you considered the idea that it is just exaggerating to make a point and isn’t meant to be taken literally?

Exaggeration is a common technique employed in human language for emphasis.

Not really sure what it's exaggerating? The writing style isn't one I'd characterize as exaggeration. Maybe you can clarify?

It's also unclear to me if people are intentionally ignoring the fact that it's about procrastination, or actually don't realize that in the rush to argue about what constitutes productive work.

I feel personally attacked. Not necessarily by the author but more by the part of my brain telling me to do useful work instead of slacking off.

The point about the lay person not needing massive parallelism was very true, until it was not :D

Actually Gaza and the West Bank are handled by the "Shabak" agency which is the equivalent of the FBI while the "Mossad" agency is only for foreign operations and is equivalent to the CIA

And asking how did they miss something is like asking how come AWS has downtime. But I'm sure you could come to this conclusion on your own if you didn't really want the answer to be something else.

Never underestimate the ability of smart people to be overconfident in their understanding of the world, even in fields they know very little about. This is how you get a lot of very articulate nonsense, news papers are filled with this and so are many small blogs.

Gen Alpha via Z doesn't see through the makeshift BS of civilization? Think again.

Every step to improve raw hosting as an alternative to full cloud offering is a blessing.

Cloud pricing no longer makes any sense.

Bold claim! If my company was to leave the cloud we would easily 5-10x our costs and need to go on a hiring spree. Curious what you mean.

You pay for the privilege of paying for what you use - every second of CPU time when a lambda is running is marked up immensely versus the same second of compute on bare metal or even a VPS. So your workload needs to be sufficiently "duck curved", parabolic, or erratically spiky in order to _actually_ make cost savings on compute.

The personnel matter is harder to quantify. But note that the need for infra skills didn't go away with cloud. Cloud is complicated, you still need people who understand it, and that still costs money. Be it additional skills spread across developers, or dedicated cloud experts depending on organisation size. These aren't a far cry from sysadmims. It really depends on the skillset of your individual team. These days traditional hosting has got so much easier with so much automation, that it's not as specialist a skill or as time consuming or complicated as many people think it is.

Cloud _can_ be cheaper, but you need the correct mix of requirements and skills gap to make it actually cheaper.

Can you elaborate on why?

Somehow many very smart AI entrepreneurs do not understand the concept of limits to lossless data compression. If an idea cannot be reduced further without losing information, no amount of AI is going to be able to compress it.

This is why you see so many failed startup around slack/email/jira efficiency. Half the time you do not know if you missed critical information so you need to go to the source, negating gains you had with information that was successfully summarized.

I Love this!

Good, many bad companies will release good developers to work on more productive things. It's healthy for everyone.

This assumes that these startups had good developers.

Maybe healthy, but will likely depress developer salaries even more.

That assumes the good developers can find work. May not be so healthy for all of them.

I think anti Fascist is way too narrow, it's anti establishment, any establishment period. Anything anyone with power does is bad, that's the mentality for 50 years.

You know what, the more I think about this, I think you're onto something.