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Re:AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom by KronisLV on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:47PM (#49899298)
> Zitron's abysmal track record

https://danluu.com/zitron/

I kinda hope corpos with a bunch of money and plenty of normies adopt AI so developers don't get bled (as) dry, esp. given the recent OpenAI changes which I feel like Anthropic is soon to follow.

Edit: explanation of the downvotes would be nice. Dan Luu made a fairly factual article there that explores some of Zitron's claims. And personally I don't see how it's bad to wish for wider adoption of AI so the big orgs get their fill of profit (since enough inference could help fund R&D better) and developers don't have to bear that burden.

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Re:AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom by url00 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#49900574)
Yeah the Dan Luu post was very convincing. People want to believe what Zitron's story is (which I do think there is some truth to) but the facts Zitron uses fail to support the story to the degree of the claims.
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