Adam Leventhal

Because Jevons was, not incorrectly, very worried about running out of coal.

And what did not foresee at all was, of course, the discovery of petroleum and solving the coal problem in a completely different way.

So it'd be interesting to know if we end up... But yeah, so you think in... So in three years, we're going to know that.

I think we will know for certain.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, so, you know, Steve, bless you for saying that.

Whether it's, you know, whether Adam is putting you up to it or not, be like, watch him chomp down on this.

He won't question this at all.

He's like, you know, this guy loves the sycophancy of these LLMs.

You just give him a, you know, I feel like, I refer to the Jevons paradox actually in a keynote like nine years ago.

And I'm like,

I feel, but I must have, I mean, obviously it's like, I mean, it's, it's from the 19th century.

So it's like, I was clearly can't claim how much credit for it.

So anyway, but thank you.

Well, and so I think that we, and Simon, I think it's a very good observation.

I do think it dovetails into another three-year prediction that I've got, which is that we see much more custom-built software and much less SaaS.

So you get a lot of LLM-generated or assisted software that's running effectively custom software.

So you're developing software to put in production for yourself,

And you kind of care less about the stuff that's like, well, you know, yes, there may be things that you would care about if you made this available as a service to the internet.