What happened to AI accelerated novel materials science and medicine? Meh let’s do TikTok slop instead ?

Right the US lacks capital for tech investment..

not sure lacks is the correct word...

After working in ad tech for a few years I am fully loaded up on ad blockers

That’s a low bar. Like crypto mining for the power company or throwing extra food out at the end of the day is revenue for the trash pickup company!

Agreed, this is almost a textbook example of the Parable of the Broken Window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

This also partially explains why my phone sometimes gets hot and uses a double digit of battery randomly when using the browser if it’s streaming video in multiple divs

Meta going so hard was part of the covid “new normal” psychosis. Surely we’ll all just stay home and buy crypto assets for the rest of our lives! The hardware I think is pretty good - I just never really found a use for it.

Vertical integration and breadth and depth of offerings on the cloud and customer lock-in from dominating it for 20 years

With the better harness in Claude code and the >4.5 model and a somewhat thought out workflow we’ve definitely arrived at a point where I find it very helpful. The less you can rely on one-shot and more give meaningful context and a well defined testable goal the better it is. It honestly does make me worry how much better can it get and will some percentage of devs become obsolete. It requires less hand holding than many people I’ve worked with and the results come out 100x faster

That’s all tech bros and self-help gurus? I guess anyone can claim themselves to be an “philosopher”