AI is now writing 95% of code at a quarter of YC startups, compressing two-day engineering tasks to 15 minutes and enabling teams of under 10 to hit $10M in revenue—a shift that's moving the scarce resource from technical skill to taste and judgment. The infrastructure race is on: open-source projects are battling to solve AI's memory problem, while data centers sprint toward consuming 10% of US power by 2028, forcing YC and major tech giants to bet heavily on nuclear and energy startups. Germany's cautionary tale—a chancellor admitting his country's nuclear phase-out was a catastrophic mistake while declaring it irreversible—frames what's at stake when policy can't keep pace with technological reality.
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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