2030 Economy Will Be Trillions in Inference on Attacking vs. Defending AI Agents
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-10-19
mattslotnick quips that the 2030 economy will consist almost entirely of trillions of dollars of inference spent on agents doing hacking and agents preventing hacking — a pointed take on where agent-era compute spending may go.
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