> In fact, fuck it, I’m ending this with a rant.
What is this. People pay for this?
Current revenue is being generated from capex investments in the past; the most recent capex hasn’t begun to pay off at all. That’s expected.
Now, I don’t know if those investments ever will pay off and there are reasons to be skeptical. But if you assume the capex doesn’t lead to any revenue, then you’re just assuming the conclusion that the investments are bad…
He seems to have done nothing but write hundreds of thousands of words about how much AI sucks and is doomed to fail for the past 2 years.
JohnMakin•1h ago
presbyterian•1h ago
JohnMakin•57m ago
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.
kev009•56m ago
Analemma_•38m ago
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.
dominotw•46m ago
otherwise its just "fun toys" right?
JohnMakin•42m ago
indigodaddy•28m ago
JohnMakin•25m ago
dominotw•24m ago
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