On one hand, self hosting will always be niche so you could pass a law like “if your serving inference at scale you need to have safeguards/ classifiers in place” since > 95% of inference will go through hosted services in the long run … but that could turn into thought policing dystopia real quick.

So Ireland made it almost literally illegal to build anything and it sounds like that led to bad behavior? Yes Ireland should fix corruption around building but they should also allow people to build homes.

[1]. https://www.centreforcities.org/reader/a-zoning-system-for-e...

So hopefully most of these statistics move towards first party sources.

I think the reason they can't make that change is that Microsoft is a slow moving rigid culture and doesn't have the kind of org that can adapt to a 10x or 100x increase in usage compared to companies like Google or the AI Labs that handled much more difficult scaling problems.

Have you seen this legendary email thread from 2003 https://www.osnews.com/story/19921/full-text-an-epic-bill-ga...? This isn't a new problem at Microsoft.

For example, Microsoft is known to pay significantly less than their competitors. I am guessing they just don't have the systems internally to say "This problem is worth literally billions to us in revenue per year, so we will pay millions to IC's to get it fixed and clear internal roadblocks".

It's not "just" small tweaks it is likely that people who are entrenched need to be moved and they need people with the right incentives in place to get it done.

If they are genuinely compute constrained on CI they should obviously reduce the free offerings rather than take down all their paying customers constantly.

I wouldn’t encourage anyone who wants to do something else to stay, this just read as strange to leave to me. If he wants to find a job in tech surely he could reach to many of the people he’s worked with in the past or connected with at various events before throwing in the towel.

It’s a very low margin business if you don’t work efficiently you’ll get outcompeted by people who do like Aldi/ Trader Joe’s etc

These Bay Area people dedicated their lives to AI risk often before AlexNet even showed deep learning could scale, by definition they are eccentric people.

At the same time, people like the AI 2027 guys (who that article speaks poorly of)… have been basically fully on the money so far.

But say there is an urban area that is 60% parking, by default LVT would probably make that uneconomical and the land owners would be incentivized to redevelop or sell.

A concrete example is I used to work at a warehouse in Boston as a teen that had hundreds of parking spaces… in one of the most housing constrained cities in the whole country in relatively prime real estate. I hope that lot gets turned into condos or something it would be a huge win for the city.

So the author is right that at a certain point you should disengage with these types and focus on racking up real world wins.