1. The sheer number of tokens that a coding agent can use flipped the math upside down on this equation. If you use the most expensive model for everything those costs quickly become untenable, even for software companies.

2. We realized many of the coding problems we're solving aren't incredibly difficult.

The company is fascinating. The "everything is open" nature of how they build the business is an incredible value for people that want to see how the sausage is made...but it hasn't ultimately lead to a better product.

The next five years are going to be truly WILD in the software world.

Air-gapped systems are gonna be huge.

Checks all of your boxes:

   - Backed up to cloud 
   - Has a mobile app that is easy to make small changes 
   - Simple file format like markdown 
   - Option to export data out as a backup  (it's just markdown files, you don't even need to export, just copy them. Or export to PDF)
   - Allow uploading arbitrary files like PDFs, images, receipts etc...  (https://obsidian.md/help/file-formats)
   - Nice to have: support for inline tables of data with simple calculations/sorting

Google Docs was built as a MS Word competitor and that's what it does best. I love Google Docs and I use it every day, but this is one thing I wouldn't use it for.

Software Engineers suddenly feel like they're fighting for their lives for employment, and time won't be "wasted" maintaining OSS for free.

We all need to eat.

You are not in defense contracting. You are in the business of war contracting.

Take from that what you will.

*John Ternus to become Apple CEO*

Talk about burying the lede, lmao.

What if your AI uses an O(n) algorithm in a function when an O(log n) implementation exists? The output would still be "correct"

OpenAI is bleeding money faster than they can afford to and they are literally running out of people that they can go to for more. They need to stop the bleeding.

Then there's a billion and a half people in Africa, also rapidly growing, that may be next.