Swimming in This Mess

As of today, there are scandals about CEOs having affairs foreign spies. About $0.15 of ever dollar generated in the US stock market since 2023 came from Nvidia. This is ridiculous. Our entire economy is propped up by this speculative insanity. I respect the long-known technical aspects of machine learning and I have for a long time. It’s just so weird that it’s accelerating into this top-heavy model where there’s basically nowhere else you can look right now without having these massive companies control the market.

This is a strange moment, like I’ve been tossed off a boat in the middle of the sea. Sink or swim, they say. Ask codex. Tell claude about the problem. Maybe claude can figure it out. I really can’t stop thinking of how fast people went from, “I will write code until my retirement” to, “I have stopped thinking on my own and defer to my robot buddies at the moment I’m challenged to problem solve.”. For my own work, I saw this coming but didn’t realize how fast or widespread it would be by the end of this year. And we aren’t even there yet!