> "can I get my coding work actually done today" vs. "this can do customer support chat"
I think you need to define "can get coding work done" for this to make sense. Ive been using GPT-3 back-then for basic scripts, does that count ? Or only Claude-Code ?
Yes, but in practice land-ownership is only zero sum in places like Europe where every square-kilometer has 300 years of documented ownership etc, or other high-density areas.
The Asia, Africa & the Americas have so much unused space that isn't as inhospitable as central Australia
I think the author might argue, that simply becoming more efficient at creating a rent-seeking mechanism is not beneficial. No matter how well motivated you are to improve your zero-sum game skills, it's still zero-sum.
Cool idea, but kinda sad that it has to go through a cloud-provider. I feel like there's a possibility with an accelerator-board (Coral TPU or something), to make this into a totally local thing maybe?
The longer-waiting time is surely not an issue when considering how many people still use Polaroids.
I guess the question is if it's like the crypto-bubble, where theres no real value left in the end (haven't heard of a good use for those ASICs). Or more like the dot-com bubble where fiber-cable installed is still valuable without pets.com around.
But since I wasn't really around for either of those ... ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
I dont think this is relevant to the main-point, but it's definitely something I wasn't aware of. I would've thought it might have an impact on like O(100)th token in some negligible way, but glad to learn.
What im really hoping is for a double-punch like with V3 -> R1