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edit 2 this is the article I meant to share from Nik Suresh who Ed featured https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Quite a long read, haven’t gone through all of it myself but I think you guys will enjoy it.

Also covered by the Financial Times

Edi Zitron has an exclusive report on OpenAI’s 2025 finances:

No matter how much you dress up whatever AI service has gaslit you into believing it’s sentient, generative AI is inherently limited, impossibly expensive and economically unviable. Its services cost too much to run, its progenitors have no path to profitability, and no amount of rigged benchmarks and anecdotal examples of theoretical engineering teams that are “10x’d” can make up for the fact that you can’t measure the cost of an LLM-driven task or its return on investment.

The AI bubble is itself a widespread organism of enshittification.

Hacker News.

Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to its GitHub Copilot coding product, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing.

This bounces around a lot. Of course Zitron eventually gets to AI, but we first take an excursion into geopolitics.

Zitron is apparently back for the plebs.

Great article about how to argue with AI ‘boosters’.

… And why we’re all fucked by it.

One time, a good friend of mine told me that the more I learned about finance, the more pissed off I’d get.

HN Discussion

I should note that I’ve previously — and erroneously — referred to the “code yellow” as something that Gomes raised as a means of calling attention to the proximity of Google’s ads side getting too close to search. The truth is much grimmer — the Code Yellow was the rumble of the Rot Economy, with Google’s revenue arm sounding the alarm that its golden goose wasn’t laying enough eggs. Gomes, a Googler of 19 years that built the foundation of modern search engines, should go down as one of the few people in tech that actually fought for a real principle, destroyed by and replaced with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist class traitor that sided with the management consultancy sect. More confusingly, one of the problems was that there was insufficient growth in “queries,” as in the amount of things people were asking Google. It’s a bit like if Ford decided that things were going poorly because drivers weren’t putting enough miles on their trucks.

I particularly enjoy how Google got savaged:

Source: Hacker News: Newest