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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

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358 points throw0101c | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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mikewarot ◴[18 Jul 25 21:11 UTC] No.44609878[source]▶
I'm waiting for the shoe to drop when someone comes out with an FPGA optimized for reconfigurable computing and lowers the cost of llm compute by 90% or better.
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trhway ◴[18 Jul 25 21:17 UTC] No.44609932[source]▶
We're already seeing it with DeepSeek's and other optimizations - like that law with highways - the wider the highway the even more usage of it. Dropping by 90% would open even more use cases.

For white-collar jobs replacement - we can always evolve up the knowledge/skills/value chain. It is the blue-collar jobs where bloodbath with all the robotics is coming.

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1. mad0 ◴[19 Jul 25 17:24 UTC] No.44617413[source]▶
> For white-collar jobs replacement - we can always evolve up the knowledge/skills/value chain.

I'm not so sure about this one. I partially agree with the statement, but less-abled collegues might have troubles with this :( Ultimately there will be less stuff to do for a plain human being.