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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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“Alzheimer’s Begins When You Can’t Say This Word” – busting a scammy ad with Claude
There’s no single specific word the ad is referring to — that’s the whole scam. It’s clickbait with a deliberately vague hook designed to make you anxious enough to click. There is no magic word whose absence signals Alzheimer’s onset. That said, the ad is loosely based on real neuroscience. Difficulty in word-finding is indeed…
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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…