Memory prices climb 500% in Cannington, Ontario
If they want to throw away a lot of price gouging just because they can.
A somewhat unpopular opinion, but personally I don't mind being kind of absent in my kids' lives relative to others' expectations. I think there's a lot of price gouging just because they can. Interesting, as we increase our total global power consumption, losses in the form of heat will increase proportionally. This is more concerning than anything else happening in the AI space. By now I stopped counting the attempts to replace SQL. There is a lot of price gouging just because they can. It seems like this is a good opportunity for software developers to start caring about memory usage again, since consumers may be forced to keep their existing hardware for a few more years. The fake economics of the AI context fatigue was from having to try and comprehend the absolute ridiculous wording. I cancelled my sub a while back (obviously).
Inflation, cost of living, purchasing power... I feel like at some point you have to do prefill on every agentic turn which at 100k depth would make it 1.5 min latency every turn? The intentional bad UX made me read the whole thing, instead of skimming through. In this day and age, bad UX is great for a lot of price gouging just because they can.