> That's exactly what I'd expect people who are driven by hype and FOMO and YOLO and anecdotal evidence to do.
Not at this scale.
> Many people are noting the system is collapsing.
On HN? any piece of evidence to support this? service outage frequency is not a sign of systemic collapse. billion dollar notes passed in a circle is brought up a lot and misunderstands how finance works. "open projects refusing AI contributions entirely because they're overwhelmed by crap" is not a systemic collapse, its not being able to adapt to a new world with new challenges. Btw "slop" is getting less and less sloppy.
> Sam Altman begging governments to force citizens to buy their product through "universal basic compute", etc.
Very interested in some citation detail that sounds like a headline quote of something more complex.
> It's certainly possible to measure anything. Benchmarks are a form of evidence but they famously a) don't represent reality and b) can be easily gamed.
I mean I work on benchmarks for a living I can tell you both of these things are true but only partially, and in aggregate they all tell a consistent story. Not to mention, static OSS benchmarks are not what these companies rely on. They have live traffic, ability to run A/B tests, full conversation traces, to ignore this is pretty incredible.