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Eventually 2028 and 2029 will come around and at some point today's data center builds will be (economically) full.

In addition to that there are extra fabs build and (for example) China can use the high margin to catch up with their processes without breaking the bank.


That is a concerning possibility but I wonder what the threat model is.

They have all that information already and could simply classify and pass it on without the need to encode it with a probability.


One possibility is that you have Claude write something that would not get you in trouble and concatenate that with something you wrote by hand that would.

Your signature from the safe material is now associated with your content on the dangerous part, and then the brownshirts come knocking on your door.


This is really nothing new and has always be the case It's not possible to tech yourself out of a political problem.

So if there is something being done we should choose a solution that has at least some accountability to the general public (through elected representatives).

The alternative is Google, Apple etc where almost anyone has exactly zero influence and the government can still block as they like.


If all alternatives are bad you should do none of them, not squabble about which one is slightly less bad.


Not doing anything is also an alternative, theoretically it can be worse than other alternatives too...


I think there is also the case were companies will simply use different tiers for different tasks.

While the engineering team might need a cutting edge model (with the associated costs), the marketing department will be fine by something that can grammar correct or turn a few bullet points into prose. Likewise you already don't need Fable for Ticket -> RAG -> Reply with Faq knowledge or escalate workflows

That's already the case with other very expensive software like CAD packages were oftentimes you have different feature sets enabled for different employees.


"that can grammar correct" ... Did you do that on purpose?


I'll sneakily claim I did but the reality is English as a second language and I'm not yet ready to let a LLM do all the fun for me.


Also that can't be the whole story because Planck died in 1947 and in Germany (then and now) Copyright ends 70 years after the death of the author.


I wonder whether most scalpers are hustle types, bored teenager or organized groups.


They did, but decided to mess with them first.

A sensible human operator would have given up or questioned their premises. The agent never could of course.


Reading the article made me feel slightly uncomfortable.

There is a slightly cruel streak that can emerge in online communities - let's see how much we can mess with this and cost it money.

Without any thought there might be a human being that is impacted.


And that is a good thing. What the human operator did was completely irresponsible and malicious, paying a small bill is hopefully educational and will correct their behavior going forward.

Having agents like this interacting with human communities is a scourge that must be prevented. With every passing day my longing for a Butlerian Jihad grows firmer.


Cruelty would imply a conscious, sentient subject, you can't be cruel to a machine. At best, you can be careless in your use of a tool, causing premature wear and deterioration.

In this case, you could theoretically argue about being cruel to the human operator behind, but that's quite a bit of a stretch. They gave billing access to a poorly controlled machine.


Maybe? It just takes one after all.

I've met some people IRL who are so engulfed in their own greatness that it simply cannot be that they made a mistake (in planning and strategy). Therefore this is all a great injustice towards a poor victim and doesn't that sound like a great argument for some charity money.

Most of them grow out of it, some become politicians.

I'd say it's a 50/50 chance.


I'd say you are a great optimist.

If you'd ask me, I would put chances or learning somewhere between 0.001 and 0.01


That is also not guaranteed. VW (with its array of brands) leads the european BEV market by a lot. [1] (sorry I only found data for April 2026 right now but earlier months were similar)

One additional point of data. In Q1 of this year they delivered 200K BEV worldwide [2] while Tesla did 350k [3].

Calling that 10 years behind is not warranted in my opinion. I would agree to say competitive and challenged.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/01/europe-ev-sales-report-... [2] https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/pressemitteilungen/volks... [3] https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-first-quarter-2026-...


Volume alone is a bad metric, Tesla makes profit on their EV's sales Mercedes makes a loss, not sustainable.


That's not quite right.

For example Siemens and Bosch are large enterprises specialised in industrial scale electrical machines and parts (among other fields).

Infineon was spun off from Siemens 25 years ago an plays an important role in chip manufacturing for automative systems.


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