just talked with two software engineers at a big tech company
neither of them had heard of Cursor or Claude Code and Codex
we’re really living in a bubble
Have you ever wondered:
Google Authenticator generates a working 6-digit code in airplane mode, without internet or a signal.
And the website instantly knows if it's right.
How does the server know what your phone generated?
“Top or bottom,” you ask. And I get excited because I think you’re talking about bunk beds. But when we get back to your place, there are no bunk beds. There are no bunk beds at all
Prediction: People will think the "compute crisis" is caused by your mom sending 3 prompts a day that cost $0.01 in compute, and not the engineers spending thousands of dollars a day on frontier models
Prediction: Local Models will progress faster than people think and it's the solution to the compute shortage problem. Especially for consumers, local models will fundamentally change things.