michaelje

I built something similar at the start of the year, using tailscale for auth (multi user on my tailnet/home network) and for access wherever I was, whether at home or on the road (all compute/storage was on my Mac mini.) Worked a treat.

Once upon a time, physically shipping faulty software had real costs borne by the organization - production, redistribution and transportation of a physical disc.

Today there’s no disc, no recall - that cost to shipping broken software is gone. We the users pay the price.

Open models keep closing the eval gap for many tasks, and local inference continues to be increasingly viable. What's missing isn't technical capability, but productized convenience that makes the API path feel like the only realistic option.

Frontier labs are incentivized to keep it that way, and they're investing billions to make AI = API the default. But that's a business model, not a technical inevitability.

Every other country appears to have the “bread” at a reasonable price. Ironically, it’s the US which has the same bread for 100x the cost.

Not sure medicine is the best example given the same profit seeking culture is driving decisions where care takes a back seat

>> critics argue that it reduces the supply of rental apartments and creates housing shortages

I don’t follow the logic. It doesn’t destroy the property or take it out of supply, it just means someone might not purchase it specifically to rent it out. Which in turn means less demand buying houses overall, which means more opportunities for people to buy (if they want?)