AI is collapsing the engineering barrier—a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by AI, some hitting $10M revenue with under 10 people—shifting the scarce resource from writing software to knowing what to build. The resulting compute surge is straining physical infrastructure, with US data centers projected to consume 10% of national electricity by 2028, while Germany's nuclear phase-out stands as a cautionary tale about what happens when energy policy can't keep pace with demand. The frontier right now is persistent AI memory architecture, with open-source projects racing to solve the context problem that makes today's agents forget everything between sessions.
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