Too Cheap to Meter
Intelligence is deflating toward the cost of the electricity it burns. The gate is the meter the labs are fighting to keep running — and the 99.9% can just route around it
Harry DeMott · Jun 28, 2026 · 17 min read
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Memento
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Central Casting
A Tokyo lab built an AI whose only job is to hire the other AIs and it outscores every one it manages. When the model is a rental, the power moves to whoever runs the casting desk. Stop standardizing on a model; own the layer that decides which one gets the part.
Which Job Gets Its 1000X Next
Somewhere out there is a developer shipping in a week what used to eat a team for a...
