Compute capacity is now the great divider, says engineer Burcu Dogan
rakyll · x · 2026-09-09
rakyll (Burcu Dogan) argues there's never been a better time for those with intuition, skill, knowledge, reputation, and compute capacity — and never a worse time for those who have it all except compute. Access to compute is now the defining divide in the AI era.
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