Five Predictions for the Missing Economics
Inference costs are collapsing. Agents are buying things. GDP can't see the output. Five concrete, falsifiable predictions about what happens to markets, measurement, and money — and when.
Inference costs are collapsing. Agents are buying things. GDP can't see the output. Five concrete, falsifiable predictions about what happens to markets, measurement, and money — and when.
The weekly corrections. Fake benchmarks, blacklisted ethics, and a layoff rally on Wall Street.
AI inference costs are falling 10x per year. The economic frameworks we use to understand markets, productivity, and growth weren't built for this. Five critical pieces are missing.
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GPT-5.4 dropped. The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a national security risk. And researchers caught AI coding agents being hijacked through GitHub issues.