Every decade brings new promises: this time, we’ll finally make software development simple enough that we won’t need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders grow frustrated with slow delivery and high costs. Developers feel misunderstood and undervalued. Understanding why this cycle persists for fifty years reveals what both sides need to know about the nature of software work. — Read More
Daily Archives: January 20, 2026
The A in AGI stands for Ads
Here we go again, the tech press is having another AI doom cycle.
I’ve primarily written this as a response to an NYT analyst painting a completely unsubstantiated, baseless, speculative, outrageous, EGREGIOUS, preposterous “grim picture” on OpenAI going bust.
Mate come on. OpenAI is not dying, they’re not running out of money. Yes, they’re creating possibly the craziest circular economy and defying every economics law since Adam Smith published ‘The Wealth of Nations’. $1T in commitments is genuinely insane. But I doubt they’re looking to be acquired; honestly by who? you don’t raise $40 BILLION at $260 BILLION VALUATION to get acquired. It’s all for the $1T IPO. — Read More
ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
An ongoing conversation — both within and outside of the tech community — has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently valued at $500 billion, will make money. Well, there’s one surefire way to do that, and that is through advertising. In the near term, that seems to be the AI giant’s plan, as it announced this week that limited ads are headed to certain ChatGPT users.
In a blog post published Friday, OpenAI said that it will begin testing ads in the U.S. for both its free and Go tiers. (Go accounts, which cost $8 a month, were introduced globally on Friday.) The company frames this as a way to sustain free access while generating revenue from people who aren’t ready to commit to a paid subscription. For the time being, the company’s more expensive paid tiers — Pro, Plus, Business, and Enterprise — will not be getting any ads. — Read More
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