"The Biggest AI Engineering Breakthrough Is Financial Engineering"
michellechen · x · 2026-09-15
A terse but pointed industry take: the author argues that the AI era's biggest engineering breakthrough is actually financial engineering — implying the current AI race is driven less by pure technology than by massive capital structures and compute financing. A debatable one-liner with strong discussion potential.
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