Once upon a time, physically shipping faulty software had real costs borne by the organization - production, redistribution and transportation of a physical disc.
Today there’s no disc, no recall - that cost to shipping broken software is gone. We the users pay the price.
The CBC recently reported on videos pretending to be from Canadians promoting similar anti-Canada messaging. They used AI generated copies of real Canadians and hired voice actors. They use this divisive content to drive views and ad revenue:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-separatist-youtube-ch...
The overreach on access and then storage will be a meaningful issue we will have to reckon with more and more. Companies are acquired, companies die. What happens to your data in 5, 15, 50 years? It doesn’t just disappear.
Open models keep closing the eval gap for many tasks, and local inference continues to be increasingly viable. What's missing isn't technical capability, but productized convenience that makes the API path feel like the only realistic option.
Frontier labs are incentivized to keep it that way, and they're investing billions to make AI = API the default. But that's a business model, not a technical inevitability.
Absolutely. Pricing exposure is the quiet story under all the waves of AI hype. Build for convenience → subsidise for dependence → meter for margin is a well-worn playbook, and AI-dependent companies are about to find out what phase three feels like.
Hyperscalers are spending a fortune so we think AI = API, but renting intelligence is a business model, not a technical inevitability.
A fresh PWA to log / improve your coffee brewing process. We use it to see what we are all drinking, find new coffees, explore new cafes, and understand what we like / don’t like.
It’s primarily used by our group of friends, so if you see a rough edge somewhere please reach out!
>> critics argue that it reduces the supply of rental apartments and creates housing shortages
I don’t follow the logic. It doesn’t destroy the property or take it out of supply, it just means someone might not purchase it specifically to rent it out. Which in turn means less demand buying houses overall, which means more opportunities for people to buy (if they want?)
Agree - I’ve been using a set of Eve (from memory) power plugs that are thread enabled - my understanding is it doesn’t connect directly to the internet (ie you don’t connect it to your wifi) but you connect to a border hub (ie an Apple TV, or maybe now an iPhone 15.)
So I guess if you trust apple, you can sorta trust these devices as their access to the outside world would be through an apple device.
It doesn’t have to be a good or bad investment. It can be something you pay for and use, and it provides actual utility. We could make owner occupiers first class citizens in our own society, having housing as primarily for housing people, with investment purposes secondary.
Increasing mortgage rates is a poor mechanism for countering inflation. It only directly impacts a minority of the economy and private companies (banks) earn the profit.
This was a thoughtful read - but found the conclusion avoided the biggest challenge of all - that housing is not *just* a financial decision - but rather, people require housing to live their lives.
Today there’s no disc, no recall - that cost to shipping broken software is gone. We the users pay the price.