AI is collapsing the engineering barrier—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—and the binding constraint has shifted upstream to energy, memory architecture, and product judgment. Meanwhile, Germany's nuclear reversal is the cautionary case: Chancellor Merz now calls the phase-out "irreversible" despite admitting it was a "serious strategic mistake," while US data centers race toward 10% of national electricity consumption by 2028. The through-line is abundance: who builds the infrastructure to sustain it, and who gets left behind by calling bad policy an act of God.
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