Matthieu Richard

I feel the same as levels and know a lot of people who do as well. Have built so many things on Vercel with NextJS now and can say: 1. It's so expensive with high traffic, even with a fair amount of optimizations 2. It's a pain in the ass to switch hosts If you believe it shouldn't be this way, can you please make it way more obvious / easier to build on Vercel in a way that doesn't break the bank?

🚀Announcing a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to co-develop frontier open-source AI models, combining Mistral AI’s frontier model architecture and full-stack AI offering with NVIDIA’s leading compute infrastructure and development tools.

we’re about to speedrun this realization across every institution in society aren’t we

The good news is that AI will talk to you about your feelings as much as you could possibly want.

The 3 Laws of Hardware 1. Wright’s Law (supply side accelerator): as cumulative production rises, unit cost falls as a power law. This is often referred to as the “learning rate”, the percentage cost decline for each doubling. 2. Jevons Paradox (demand side accelerator): when something becomes cheaper, usage, adoption and investment all expand as the market finds more use cases. 3. Lotka’s Wheel (competitive allocator): the entity that turns cost gains into faster growth will outcompete entities that bank those gains as margin. The system math rewards maximum volume, not maximum efficiency. Efficiency is merely a symptom of volume. The best example of this is the iPhone. When the iPhone launched, no handset product had more than 0.6% market share. Steve Jobs bet his entire company (Apple) that the iPhone could get >10% market share. He needed this huge market share to get the volume to price the phone competitively. If he could only get 0.5% market share, like everyone expected, then he would have to sell the handsets for something like $5,000 each, just to break even. Instead they got 20% market share, much more than expected, and this allowed Apple to price very competitively and still rake 40% margin. A feat never seen before in hardware. This formula really seems to have been lost to the sands of time. The only product since that really tried the same strategy was Tesla’s model 3. The deep revelation here is that the consumer product is not the product, the manufacturing line is the product. For a manufacturing company, you don’t start with Lotka, and you don’t start with Jevons, you start with Wright’s Law. It is Wright’s Law that is inside your building. How do you do Wright’s Law? You use something like an OODA loop, and you formalise it, and you focus on maximising the tightest cycle speed for this specific OODA loop. You learn where all the cost is, where all the friction is, where all the time is, and you ruthlessly squeeze it out. All of it. This will trigger a Jevons response in the market, and the Lotka flywheel will then start to creak forward. This is how you win. You don’t have to go straight to building a dark hyperplant, you have to understand how to crank these 3 laws from a standing start to a virtuous vortex. Hopefully this helps with the clarity?