Founder argues datacenter buildouts are a dead end — AI models will shrink like mainframes did
draginol · x · 2026-09-25
Founder draginol argues that current datacenter buildouts are a dead end. Drawing an analogy to computing history — people once thought no computer would fit on a desk, yet a watch now holds mainframe-class power — he predicts AI models will follow the same path toward smaller, localized capability rather than perpetual reliance on centralized compute. A contrarian take on the scaling race.
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