Chamath Palihapitiya
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We shouldn't build the highway system or we have built the highway system.
Let's stop.
Let's stop building the highways.
No, the highway system was funded by the federal government.
There was no competition.
It was the most expensive on a inflation adjusted basis.
I think it was the most expensive project in U.S.
history.
and the railroads before that, like you can't stop these things.
They have to keep going.
It's interesting point, you know,
There is so much demand for the resource of tokens, of intelligence, Freeburg.
And it's quite different than the fiber situation, as Sax correctly points out, where we built all this, but we didn't actually have an application.
Here, the application is pretty well known.
And you've got a large number of people in businesses who are trying to vibe code their way to success, trying to push this stuff.
And we had an interesting story referenced earlier in the show.
where uh claude ate somebody's homework this is the nightmare of all nightmares somebody was vibe coding uh was the founder of pocket os apparently they make software for rental car companies he was using opus 4.6 through cursor's ai platform their coding platform and uh
you know, which is like the most expensive tier.
And he said he configured it with enough safety rules, but the agent was working on a routine task.
They saw some sort of credentialing mismatch and they decided to fix the mismatch by deleting a railway volume without user confirmation.