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GDP Growth in Second Quarter Slows to 1.5%, No Evidence of AI Productivity Boom (cepr.net)
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^a succint highly professional description of the US economy right now as it is monomaniacally leveraged into AI.

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[–] diz@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think even if development at an instant is some % faster to start with, it writes the same functionality in more lines of code which will rapidly lead to a slowdown.

Imagine you are traveling the oregon trail in a wagon and a devil offers you an extra horse but all of its manure has to go into the wagon. Initial speed up followed by a cumulative slowdown. If you keep accepting devil’s deals as your wagon keeps slowing down to a crawl, the progression is governed by a horseshit version of Tsiolkovsky’s equation.