AI is collapsing the cost of software creation—a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by AI, with some teams hitting $10M in revenue with fewer than 10 people—shifting the scarce resource from engineering to judgment and taste. The energy grid is struggling to keep pace, with US data centers on track to consume 10% of national electricity by 2028, while Germany's nuclear phase-out stands as a cautionary tale: Chancellor Merz now calls it both "a serious strategic mistake" and "irreversible." The open-source push for persistent AI memory is the next frontier, with projects racing to give agents context that compounds across sessions rather than resetting every time you close a tab.
Germany's nuclear phase-out is costing factories, workers, and the climate. The man who said it was wrong now says nothing can be done.
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