The 'infrastructurization of everything': only compute, storage and inference will be left to sell
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-16
Replying to AccBalanced, mattslotnick argues the real meta-issue is the "infrastructurization of everything": as AI permeates every industry, the only thing left to sell will be consumption of infrastructure primitives — compute, storage, networking, inference, sandboxes, etc. AccBalanced agreed, noting they've been making the same case for a while.
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