Ask Lemmygrad

I think we'll have something much better once the bubble pops, but for now there's a lot of problems that are being papered over by easy investor cash.

The compute in data centers will need to be replaced every 18 months as they become outdated, and meanwhile they can't even build all the data centers they've promised and are back-ordered for years. They're plopping data centers into undersized electricity and water grids that can't handle them because it's cheap, and this is now causing public backlash against construction. They're a Dutch disease, sucking all the oxygen out of the economy to fuel extraction while producing little value. LLMs are good at some specific tasks, but the insistence on making an everything machine and cramming it into everything has further enshitified everything. The c-suite keeps trying to fire everyone and replace them with slop, and then finding out that they can't actually do that because the everything machine can't actually do everything. Morons like our first trillionaire are suggesting putting data centers in space where there's no water or atmosphere to act as coolant.

In short, it stinks.