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  • What Gets Obscured

    The attention economy is one particular expression of commerce under one particular cost structure. Why "scale first, monetize later" does not work arithmetically for AI, and why AI's commercial position sits closer to electricity than to software.

  • On Some Thoroughly Unfancy FDEs

    Strip the acronym of its glamour and the FDE is technical labor dispatched to the client's site. From the IBM engineers of the 1970s and the fork that produced SAP and Oracle, three roads open to this generation of FDEs — purely parasitic, parasitic but independent, or a new category.