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AI's appetite for computation scales with the willingness of their funders to provide heavily discounted tokens to the general public.

The basic play here is to get companies to fire people and adapt internal processes to the current heavily subsidized AI farms, and then jack the rates once the switching costs become untenable ... particularly if they can get a huge percentage of human programmers to quit the industry.

This is effectively "dumping" in the economic sense.



Think the basic play is to IPO or be acquired so investors make their 10x and someone else deals with the enshittification later




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