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The AI hardware market is drawing fresh attention from analysts and investors alike, with a new piece from Category VC mapping out where the real competition is forming. The argument is that the race isn't just about chips anymore — it's about the full stack of memory, interconnects, and software that sits around them. The winners, they suggest, will be decided by systems thinking, not raw compute alone.
That framing sits in interesting tension with a piece making the rounds today from a developer who says they are simply against generative AI, and everything it stands for. The post is personal and pointed, raising concerns about environmental cost, the erosion of craft, and what it means to outsource creative and intellectual work to a statistical engine. It's a minority view in tech circles, but it's one that resonates with a growing number of practitioners who feel the hype has outrun the honest accounting.
On a quieter note, a small tool called Cheese Paper has surfaced on Hacker News — a text editor built specifically for writing, stripped of nearly everything else. No feature bloat, no distractions. In a moment when AI tools are promising to write for you, someone went the other direction and built something that just helps you think.
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