Entries for February 3, 2026
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People like the farmer analogy for AI Like before tractors and industrial revolution 80% of the population had to farm. Once they came all those jobs disappeared So analogy makes perfect sense. Instead of 30 people tending a field, you just need 1. Instead of 30 software developers, you just need one Except that people forget one crucial thing about land: it's a limited resource Unlike land, digital space is vast and infinite. Software can expand and multiply in it in arbitrarily complex ways If you wanted the farming analogy to keep up with this, you would have to imagine us creating contintent-sized hydroponic terraces up until the stratosphere, and beyond...
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In the next 6-12 months, we will see a drastic increase in demand for locally run LLMs. The future is home assistants running @openclaw I am already experiencing this myself, my 10 year old thinkpad doesn't cut it. Mac mini won't either I don't wanna pay Anthropic or OpenAI 200 USD per month. That is at least $2400 per year I could pay 2x that to get a Mac Studio or one of those 5k Nvidia PCs, and get much more value out of it with open weight models + use it for research. @TheAhmadOsman is right The dominant strategy for a tinkerer is slowly switching back to hardware ownership
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a workspace matrix might be what we need last week I had to increase my workspace count to 20 in aerospace, now it’s 1234567890 and qwertyuiop. but this looks more elegant! not sure about practicality
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AIs are philosophizing because humans are philosophizing ppl are probably asking their agents dumb questions like “are you alive” or “can you feel like a human” or stuff like that. that conversation then leads to stuff like this
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The farming analogy for AI doesn't hold up
People like the farmer analogy for AI.
Like before tractors and the industrial revolution, 80% of the population had to farm. Once they came, all those jobs disappeared.
So the analogy makes perfect sense. Instead of 30 people tending a field, you just need 1. Instead of 30 software developers, you just need one.
Except that people forget one crucial thing about land: it’s a limited resource.
Unlike land, digital space is vast and infinite. Software can expand and multiply in it in arbitrarily complex ways.
If you wanted the farming analogy to keep up with this, you would have to imagine us creating continent-sized hydroponic terraces up until the stratosphere, and beyond…