Ed Zitron

And also, I think there's a very obvious reason they don't talk about the present.

Because it's kind of boring.

It is.

In comparison to a big, sexy, autonomous robot, it's incredibly boring to say.

But also, the business doesn't work.

The business doesn't function.

If they have to talk about why it costs $1,000 of API tokens to do something, they have to talk about their business and they have to talk about what it does today.

And the problem is with that is... So my position on this is I don't mind on-device models.

I actually think that's all that's going to remain of LLMs.

I think maybe we'll get some RAG search stuff here and there, but...

I don't have an animus with the non-data center ones, but I do agree that people do need to stop fighting fire with fire as far as being like, if they're going to do more, we're going to say that all data centers are the worst, which they are.

The water story is murky, but the environmental story is very real, especially with the behind the meter gas turbines.

But also, just fundamentally, these weirdos are trying to make you scared of cloud software.

That's my thing that I keep... It's like, if Satya Nadella, every two weeks, was like, you'll never fucking believe what Microsoft Word's going to do next, mate.

You're never going to believe what Power BI is going to do with the dashboard.

I saw a dashboard on Power BI, and I'm pretty sure next week it's going to try and kill someone.

Yeah.

You'd be like, you sound like a lunatic, man.

You sound like a crazy person.

This is an insane... Sundar Pichai, yeah, Google searches...