LLMs Were Always Going to Be a Commodity
Chinese AI labs keep matching frontier models for a fraction of the cost. Here's why that was inevitable, and why US AI CEOs stayed calmer than the headlines.
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Self-taught engineer, recovering history major. Tech, woodworking, home automation.
Chinese AI labs keep matching frontier models for a fraction of the cost. Here's why that was inevitable, and why US AI CEOs stayed calmer than the headlines.
I replaced a local RAG setup with an LLM wiki: a repo my marketing agent reads directly. The pattern that keeps a machine-first knowledge base true over time.
A horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent.
My rules for pleasure reading: sci-fi over biographies, long series over anything, and the podcasts and books I keep coming back to.
Everyone's asking if you should still learn to code. It's the wrong question. The job was never typing syntax. It was solving problems, and that hasn't changed.