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> Didn't the overbuild of fiber directly lead to Google buying up dark fiber, and then lighting it up later

Yes, but the lag there is decade-long, and a bunch of heavily fibre-invested companies went bust before anyone saw the upside.

In the same vein, it's very possible that early movers-and-shakers in the LLM space will overextend and end up bankrupt before LLMs find a long-term profitable niche



Yep, the decade-long timeline about matches what I recall. Agree on the culling that's coming in the AI space as well. Temporal's comment from a couple of days ago about inside vs. outside AI has been thought-provoking as I think about who is going to go bust...




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