I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …
ned ludd did nothing wrong. but that’s what i mean about jevons paradox, which is the observation that increasing the efficiency of using a resource can lead to increased aggregate demand. so if the marginal cost of software development goes down, there may paradoxically be an increase in aggregate market demand for software developers and tech workers.
The tech is exciting. The labor implications are not. Now how to get all of those disenfranchised tech workers away from Right Libertarian politics
ned ludd did nothing wrong. but that’s what i mean about jevons paradox, which is the observation that increasing the efficiency of using a resource can lead to increased aggregate demand. so if the marginal cost of software development goes down, there may paradoxically be an increase in aggregate market demand for software developers and tech workers.