Technology and innovation has had a long storied history of making humanity better. I feel like companies are chasing money at the expense of meaningful innovation. Can we go back to meaningful innovation again, where the end result wasn’t a cost increase for a minor bump in productivity?

Companies are laying off developers and replacing them with "cheap" AI tools - but those tools are actually subsidized by VCs. A look at the hidden cost shift coming when AI pricing moves from market capture to profit extraction.