Point your rented coin-operated computer at the bottleneck: on building machines that reach escape velocity
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-05
The author argues each new model release yields more (better, more complex output) with more (context, compute, capital) on the margin, so the real question is locating the bottleneck—upstream discovery, marketing, sales, delivery—and precisely pointing rented foundation models at it until the budget is exhausted. Extending the thread: as Labs expand Borg-like and absorb the digital exhaust of human knowledge workers, cultivating a machine that can stand on its own and reach escape velocity hinges on key decisions about governance structure, information architecture, and talent pools.
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