Linkblog/2025/01/31

In the 1990s, there was a tech revolution called “The Internet”. […] One of the companies that caught this trend of “the internet” was Cisco, […] it’s price reached $82 per stock, putting it at a total market cap of $536B. This was the highest stock price, and market cap, that Cisco has ever reached. It stayed there for a year, until crashing back to $15 per stock on March 2001. Today, it’s stock trades at around $60, and its market cap is about $230B. What caused this fast climb and sharp decline, you might ask?

You see, the entire AI tech bubble is built on the assumption that doing AI is hard, and it requires billions of dollars of investments.

Just like with the internet, AI is going to transform. From being tightly controlled by a group of tech people to be run on expensive hardware, to being freely available and run on consumer grade hardware.

This picture goes hard.

The Trump administration’s embrace of cryptocurrencies is helping fuel a speculative mania that could cause “havoc” when prices collapse, the hedge fund Elliott Management has warned.

You mean the guy that launched a pump and dump crypto coin scheme of himself, followed by his wife, is making decisions that are less than ideal for the future of crypto?

Who would’ve guessed…

The goal is to make it easier for ecosystem tools to accept user-defined type validators, without needing to write custom logic or adapters for each supported library. And since Standard Schema is a specification, they can do so with no additional runtime dependencies. Integrate once, validate anywhere.