Blogger: After a Trillion-Dollar Race to Build God, Cheap AI Suffices for 95% of Corporate Tasks
BoringBiz_ · x · 2026-09-23
BoringBiz argues the industry spent a trillion dollars trying to "build God," only to find a cheaper version of that God can handle 95% of tasks in corporate America — the very end customer. His punchline: "Intelligence was never the bottleneck" — even the most vibrant economy in history doesn't need that much intelligence to keep running. A contrarian take on AI capex and economic value.
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