This is a big reason why I'm none too happy about the rise of individual-authors-as-brands via Substack replacing traditional journalism: once people are following and paying you specifically for a specific opinion, you're locked in. A very small number of individual bloggers have a brand of "I'll say the truth no matter what" and actually mean it, but the overwhelming majority are like Ed.
There was an argument to be made that bigger companies with skin in the game were and are making a bigger deal than they should have about how useful it is, but enterprise is growing way, way beyond those companies and it can’t really be easily explained away.
Like this:
> And really, why do these capacity constraints not seem to have any effect on its revenue growth?
Is either absolute obtuseness on purpose, or completely dishonest. Obviously the answer is people find it worth the spend even with the capacity issues. What other answer could there be? To ed, he will say they are simply lying about their revenue and doing accounting tricks, which is a crazy claim to make with no evidence.
otherwise its just "fun toys" right?
This was the comment
i am talking about revnue/profit growth of ai consumers ( not producers). if they are making anything useful or improving productivity surely it would it show up in numbers right? otherwise whats the point.
usefulness isnt a feeling.
btw. top two links on hn right now are
> Appearing Productive in The Workplace
> The bottleneck was never the code