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vindication! https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-microsoft-moving-all-g...

https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/ wrote it up. And relatively dry too!

When you say "jammed," how do you mean?

LLMs are not making the cost of software near-zero, even by your admission! If times are changing FOR GOOD, perhaps you're right? But i'm not sure they are.

See, this is just a weak argument. This was thousands of words of hypotheses backed up with data and citation. Dismissing it as "blathering" and then demanding I make a bet based o…

Exactly my point. I took great pains to not say "OpenAI will 100% die without fail," because doing so would be declarative in a way that would wall off my argument, no matter how w…

Hi! I'm afraid you've made an assumption that isn't true. LLMs do not "bring the cost of writing software close to $0" on a number of levels. 1. The code is not 100% reliable, mean…

I realize that these are commonly-held tropes, but where is the actual article that says this? There's the famous "the internet isn't a big deal" thing in Newsweek (and funnily eno…

I think you are misunderstanding my point, and perhaps I should've worded it more-precisely" "Mass market utility" here refers to its ability to sell at the scale it would need to …

It also got broken up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

The space race was also not something with a financial outcome at the end as its main goal. I doubt that Uncle Sam cares that much about controlling OpenAI.

Thanks for reading! I downplay it because I fundamentally disagree on the pace of innovation and the exponential increase in capabilities per dollar happening over time. I do not s…

I'm afraid this isn't an accurate comparison. 1. I do not know of any article that said that Google was "DOA" or "done" as a result of the choice of a search engine as a business m…

Hi! :) It appears you have some issues with my article, and I'm happy to provide some help. "Egregious errors in previous articles" is not a valid argument against current argument…

See, that's the thing. This COULD happen. I do not think it will, but the piece is written not to say "this is 100% not gonna happen," but "I am unsure how it's possible, and if it…

Sure, but the argument here isn't that it's impossible. Just that to do what they need to do, they need to do something that really hasn't been done before. I do not THINK Microsof…

I think that when you put yourself in the mindset of writing something with the intent of facilitating discussion you're at times drawn toward making inferior content to satisfy an…

I get it! But at the same time, this is opinion work - and also, what would this look like without the emotion? A bone-dry analysis of the text? Would it say "this is bad"? Not arg…

I think that we have some of the best investigative reporters in the world working in tech right now, but insufficient context behind things. I am obviously an opinion writer, and …

I'd say the latter. Though I do try and keep it polite when talking to people about my work. I think that more people should be more willing to talk about the powers that be and th…

Please elaborate! I'm genuinely curious.

Hey all! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-man-that-destroyed... if you wanna hear this instead of read this, check out the podcast version.