It'll be fine. The supply chain for these components is inelastic, but that means once manufacturing capacity increases, it'll stay there. We'll see lower prices, especially if there is an AI crash and a mass hardware selloff like some people are predicting.
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#63Time for some heavy regulation
There is appetite in some circles for a consumer boycott but not much coordination on targets.
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> Sorry, do people not immediately see that this is an AI bit comment? How do you know that ? Genuine question.
It has Claude all over it. When you spend enough time with them it becomes obvious. In this case “it’s not x, it’s y” pattern and its placement is a dead giveaway.
ChatGPT does this just as much, maybe even more, across every model they've ever released to the public.
How did both Claude and GPT end up with such a similar stylistic quirk?
I'd add that Kimi does it sometimes, but much less frequently. (Kimi, in general, is a better writer with a more neutral voice.) I don't have enough experience with Gemini or Deepseek to say.
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Yep. My take is that, ironically, it's going to be because of government funding the circular tech economy, pushing consumers out of the tech space.
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Sorry, do people not immediately see that this is an AI bot comment? Why is this allowed on HN?
It is my text, enchanced by AI. Without AI, I would never have used the word "Monopsony". So I learned something new writing this comment.
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I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid. If it’s temporary I can live with it. I guess this was inevitable with the absolute insane money being poured into AI.
>If it’s temporary I can live with it. Given this has been going on for years at this point, the high prices of graphics cards through crypto and now AI, it feels like this is the new normal, forever propped up by the next grift.