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The Subsidy Cliff Arrives: This Week Proved the Gold Rush Is Ending
A follow-up to The End of the AI Gold Rush In August 2025, I wrote that the AI industry’s $20-a-month illusion couldn’t last — that the math simply didn’t work, and that eventually someone would expect their profit out of this. I estimated that reaching actual cost recovery would require 10x to 50x price corrections.…
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The Artisan’s Return: How LLMs Are Making Us Forget We Already Solved This
There’s a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from asking an LLM to generate a solution to your problem. The code appears, seemingly tailored to your exact needs. It… mostly works. You ship it. But somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice whispers: “Didn’t someone solve this already?” They did. Probably a decade…
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Whitespace is Significant
While I was in my first couple years of college, Python was gaining traction as a hot new programming language. I had been programming in C since high school, but was curious about new languages. I took an interest in learning more about Python. A classmate told me that whitespace (at least indentation) was significant…