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Policy2026-08-03 · source-backed
The essay decomposes frontier compute growth through 2030 into roughly 3x per year (1.4x from Moore's Law, 1.2x from new fabs, 1.8x from AI capturing leading-edge wafer allocation from other devices) against leading-lab revenue tracking 10x growth, arguing price is the obvious release valve for a 10-to-15x inference repricing. His anchor figure: an H100 running a human-level software engineer at market labor rates would justify $250K per year in rent, about 15x current spot price. Published July 29, reached HN August 2, 179 points and 140 comments in hours. It's the direct counterweight to the builder assumption that per-token cost only ever falls, and I'd rather stress-test my unit economics against it now than in 2028.
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H100 uses HBM
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