Meta subsidizes dhh's Omarchy with tokens, sparking AI centralization debate
bendee983 · x · 2026-09-08
- dhh thanked Meta's team for supporting the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron with a large token grant.
- bendee983 argues access to LLM tokens and compute is now a key success factor: bootstrapped startups without backing from a wealthy AI lab will struggle against teams with subsidized AI.
- He laments that AI was supposed to democratize software, but big AI players may end up absorbing companies, data, and applications instead.
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