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You need to understand something about VC, tech, and finance people in general. They don't care about anything but making money. How do you make money? Sell shovels. Or better yet, monetize them. Rent and lease them out. Make shovels just well enough it breaks infrequently enough that people keep coming back to get another one.

That's vibe coding, and the last couple decades of "cloud mania". Computing was metered and rented. What they didn't have was the capability to bottle their developers up and sell that. Now, LLM's and the massive compute farms required to support them have given them that new shovel to sell. Which they will. Without regard for what it'll do to the environment that made it possible.

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