2026-10-15 17:38 UTC
Right now it looks like AI can do "disruption" because you can apparently do things that require a team, as an individual, by taking advantage of highly subsidized token rates, or (at best) taking advantage of highly subsidized training regimes and stolen training data. But those rates will go up and while you'll still be able to nominally command those resources as an individual, doing so will still require the capital flow required to hire a team.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-10-15 17:40
AI does not disrupt. AI entrenches. AI turns money into more money; AI turns investment into dependency. We are living in a funhouse mirror of that right now where the combination of overly-plausible demos and first-one's-free incentives are swamping the actual balance-sheet math. But the economics require that this stabilize, that the capital flows reverse direction. The wave has come in and we are just starting to feel the undertow.