That seems like it's within striking distance of competitive, no? You get some major advantages in size and production automation. Perhaps it's ok for it to die sooner if you can get it built now and then replace it later.
We already have had that ossified layer thing multiple times in mathematics. Formalisms change. For example, prior to vector calculus writing out multidimensional PDEs was tedious. Vector calculus has serious issues in its own right, so you get people pushing geometric algebra. In more rarefied domains you have things like categories and sheafs replacing the previous "ossified" layer.
The UK's tier 2 and the EU's blue card are strictly better than the US H-1B to green card mechanism and have been for over a decade. You face no 7% per country capping on naturalization. Has it worked out? These visas look like O-1 competitors more than anything, not H-1B.
Are there details on what visas Hyundai needed they couldn't get? L-1A/B for sending experts or management would make sense but I'm not sure there's any real issue getting those, especially not in 2023 when the plant was started.
That consumption figure is per acre of almonds. But your point is still valid. In total almonds or other crops like alfalfa consume millions of acre-feet of water a year in a dry state like California while a single data center only consumes ~500-1000.
A half baked programming language that isn't deterministic or reproducible or guaranteed to do what you want. Worst of all worlds unless your input and output domains are tolerant to that, which most aren't. But if they are, then it's great
Interoperability is, and always was, the hardest part of programming systems together. It's telling that the ai tooling needed sustained non ai effort to expose the interfaces via MCP (or ws-* or rest or an enterprise service bus or xml or CORBA or EJB or...)
I wish I wasn't medically barred from having a pilot's license. Not for the pay, but I just like the idea of flying. Unfortunately, I cannot. I recommend people use their salaries to learn how to fly regardless! It's maybe ~$15-20k to get a PPL which is doable for the tech crowd with some planning.
This paragraph alone is fundamentally better than the page or so of text in the blog post.
I'm not sure what it is about the style of technical writing I've seen lately but just directly getting to the point versus trying to obfuscate the thesis on a potentially controversial topic is increasingly rare
Rent seeking is the name of the game for much of b2b SaaS.
MCP is an attempt to make that easy, but the issue here is that a lot of the companies offering integration could be disintermediated entirely by LLMs. Hard to say what that means.
Hooray, finally we are getting the geometric analysis of embedding spaces we need. Information geometry and differential geometry is finally getting its moment in the sun!