If you're building anything real, it's a golden age — your rival's costs are dropping too
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-09
The author frames the AI debate as a spectrum: anything material with real-world benefits and costs will improve, with the market deciding where and how; anything immaterial and social will stay a dumpster fire of people fighting over meaningless tastes, cycling for decades.
Where you land depends on where you sit: if you're building anything real right now, it's a golden age — your main problem is that competitors' costs are dropping as fast as yours.
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