David Baker

Founder of Acorn Web Consultants · global tech consultant & entrepreneur · Ember.js Core emeritus · follower of Jesus · husband & dad of four

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price AI.

Nobody listened.

Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.”

Horizontal enabling layer.

Three words that reprice the entire technology sector.

The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market.

Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth.

Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid.

Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product.

A feature. A tool. A subscription tier.

Every single one of them will be priced to zero.

You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it.

For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity.

The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete.

A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls.

Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one.

The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds.

Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay.

The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself.

When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates.

This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products.

This replaces the ground you are standing on.

[David Baker @acorncom]

There are some really interesting details in here from someone who clearly understands the complexities of sensors in cars. Interesting to contemplate how much the integration of software and hardware plays a role here

[Genma_Jp @nymbusjp]

https://t.co/eDxL0vVJ1B

[David Baker @acorncom]

Supply chain attacks continue to snag folks consistently. Clawdbot has some interesting thoughts in it, but “hand all the keys to the kingdom to an AI bot” does remain *spicy* 😉

[Jamieson O'Reilly @theonejvo]

https://t.co/85Kn8cUJq4

[Dev Agrawal @devagrawal09]

Highly recommended read for anyone in the React ecosystem
https://t.co/MjpSb5AMbJ

[David Baker @acorncom]

Looking forward to talking about some of the things we helped @auditboard with this last year, hope to see you there!

[Ember Europe @EmberEurope]

Another speaker joins us for the #EmberEurope Q4 meetup! 🐹 @acorncom (@[email protected]) will be sharing insights on “Accessibility - When Keyboard Focus Gets Complex”

RSVP here and join us online! 🐹 https://t.co/kwf9D8dOqW

[David Baker @acorncom]

This is pretty nifty

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

4. Japan’s simple, elegant and super complex underground bicycle parking system

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter (6500 people) and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed.

He was right. Everyone was wrong.

It’s the management masterclass of the decade and every entrepreneur must understand why it worked 🧵:

[David Baker @acorncom]

@framecrop Yes, but the mat options are pretty bland. Seems like there’d be interesting options around customized mat colors that Samsung doesn’t offer at all

[David Baker @acorncom]

@framecrop curious, do you have any plans to add framing options around images? Don’t yet own a Samsung Frame, so not sure if that’s doable within the TV or not …

[David Baker @acorncom]

@arunjgd @nullvoxpopuli @wycats If your app is fairly small then the migration should be fairly quick. Easier to do it now then once your app has grown in size ;-)

[David Baker @acorncom]

@PatrickDougall @wycats @PatrickDougall if you've got available budget for it, we should talk ;-)

[David Baker @acorncom]

@matthew_d_green @boazbaraktcs If he’s seriously interested in something like the above, a friend works for the Rust foundation and might have a better sense of where frustrated energy could be best directed to improve VS Code stuff

[David Baker @acorncom]

@matthew_d_green @boazbaraktcs Well if he’s got the time / inclination, improving this extension for VS Code might win him a lot of friends in the Rust community 😉 https://t.co/pkcZzFYr9T

[David Baker @acorncom]

@matthew_d_green @boazbaraktcs Interesting, what doesn’t he like about Cargo? Package managers do amazing things for ecosystems and Cargo is well designed from what I’ve seen

[David Baker @acorncom]

This certainly seems like it risks much of the data stored in foreign countries under data sovereignty rules (such as here in Saudi Arabia) where there are specific rules around “this data must stay in-country”

[David Baker @acorncom]

While it looks like there are certain nods toward foreign country sovereignty with this law (“provides mechanisms for the companies or the courts to reject or challenge these if they believe the request violates the privacy rights of the foreign country the data is stored in”)

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

@dmv @patio11 So in other words, "if it's in an AWS region, US law enforcement can get access to it with a strongly worded letter?"

[David Baker @acorncom]

@caesararum @Metathea11 @patio11 Ugh, this. *So* true

[David Baker @acorncom]

@thorstenball Increasingly these days I arrive on the site and go straight to reader mode in Safari. *Lovely* to only have the content I came for available

[David Baker @acorncom]

Helpful discussion of banking sector concerns, quite useful to be aware of when navigating life internationally https://t.co/T6YQzPXlAo

[David Baker @acorncom]

@nicalpi @mattupstate It’s still humming away if you find yourself needing a richer frontend experience. Hotwire / Turbo seem to work well up to some threshold after which you start hitting pain points. But seems like that threshold is higher than it used to be 🙂