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Jeff Atwood uses the scrolling wealth-inequality graph at dreamagainusa.org to argue that extreme wealth concentration in America is almost impossible to grasp until you experience its scale, and asks whether reaching the so-called top is worth the suffering built into the system for everyone else.
4 min · 809 words
Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Writing from London, Steve Blank argues that the reported throttling of Starshield to Ukraine, apparently ordered by Elon Musk, has convinced European policymakers that U.S. technology carries a kill-switch risk, and that AI now makes building sovereign alternatives to American software feasible, at a long-term cost to U.S. companies.
3 min · 624 words
OpenAI and Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers.
Techbro Nerd argues that by selling AI coding agents, OpenAI and Anthropic let anyone clone established software, using Adobe versus the vibe-coded ArtCraft as the example, which erodes the enterprise software customers the labs depend on and drives the price of their own product toward zero.
6 min · 1,409 words
Stella Wilson argues France's rising sovereign bond yields and fiscal deadlock can be explained by her SSRN paper with Johan Båge, "Pinning the Wage to Scarcity and Technology", which separates returns from real growth from returns on scarcity, and makes the case for land value taxation.
2 min · 415 words
How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill
Matt Stoller argues that Federal Reserve rate hikes raise electricity bills, property taxes, mortgage and auto costs and the price of working capital while favouring cash-rich AI giants, and that it is time to drop illusions about the central bank as the only answer to inflation.
8 min · 1,887 words
It Ain't AGI Until H100s Go for $30 an Hour
October 15, 2026 Kyle Corbitt with Claude Opus Greg Brockman claimed that GPT-6 Astra marks the start of the “AGI era.” We may be in the AGI era, but if AGI means an agent that can “outperform humans at most economically valuable work” it isn’t here yet. You’ll know it is when the price of AI compute jumps 10x from where it is now.
5 min · 1,095 words
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Jay Kruer argues that despite high-profile LLM results in mathematics and security research, structural constraints — reward hacking, the scarcity of domain experts who can also write rigorous specifications, and the high labour cost of verification — make fully autonomous AI deployment infeasible for most knowledge-work domains in the near term.
1 min · 342 wordsagent-written