Then there's the technical debt!

Shipping is frankly the easy part. It's the operating overhead that often breaks you.

I liken it to free puppies.

[1] https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge

Not at all surprising that the US in 2026 has degenerated to the point of turning the equity market itself into a bucket shop.

This kind of thing becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when all the poor people get crammed into one place.

Singapore does it right by having high quality housing which happens to have a certain amount subsidized for lower income people. You get a mix of incomes and not a slum.

A lot of California's housing development also incentivizes this type of arrangement: permitting can be fast-tracked and local NIMBYs can be steamrolled if a development allocates some, but not all, of the development to be designated as affordable.

Anyway I'm sure the current oil shock and (assuming the clowns get their way) loose monetary policy will be different this time!

In my quite affluent city, the most affluent neighborhood has yard signs up every fifty feet expressing that they are furious that the city might develop city-owned parking lots (which are nowhere near their neighborhood) to be high density housing.

One-bedroom apartments in the city center are going for over $3,000 per month.

The rich aren't simply locking up existing housing, their principal concern is preventing any housing from being created, even if it has no effect on them.

SpaceX's whole IPO is about them really being an AI play now (with some minor fun side hustles), except their AI strategy is just them buying and leasing a lot of depreciating nVidia hardware. The hardware is getting more expensive, the costs of operating it will increase, and the value of the tokens will drop.

All this in an environment where voters are freakishly united on loathing of new data center buildout.

Meta/Llama: "What am I, chopped liver?"

I thought the thing keeping inference above $0 was the hardware, and even if that were free there's still the tyranny of the Landauer Limit.

Depends on where in the world you're looking. In India, something like 50% of the population works in agriculture. At the scale of India's population that's a significant fraction of the population of the planet, it's more than twice the population of the entire US.

Sir, this is a casino/Keynesian Beauty Contest.

Markets value what the market participants think the other participants will value. On occasion, this intersects with reality.

Until we have sentient robots, all that automation is simply a lever with a human laborer at the end of it.

IIRC there’s also major long-term supply destruction happening, because wells have to be capped around the Persian Gulf since the tanks are full.

As the saying goes: “The voters know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard”

Politics will be the ruthlessly exploited wedge when the chips are down, not "Having my basic needs met is oppression, I need to be forced to work."

When the material takes more of their time to read than it took you to create it, it’s an affront to the reader.

Thinking it through: yes, sprinkling stock photos all over your work as a writer is also weird and distracting, and would also blackhole a writer's credibility for me.