JOURNAL
Notes from inside the lab. Essays and research in progress — opinions included, announcements excluded.
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Software used to be a product you bought. Then it became a service you rented. The next stage is stranger and more interesting: software as a layer of settled infrastructure that nobody owns and everybody builds on.
Cloud inference rents compute by the token. Local inference prices it at the cost of electricity. The crossover between those two curves is the most consequential number in software economics right now.
For a decade, capability tracked computation, and the field was a spending contest. If that correlation breaks, progress becomes a design problem — which is the kind small teams can win.
Every abstraction in software exists to ration something scarce. When intelligence becomes cheap, the rationing machinery does not disappear — it turns into drag. Notes on designing for the opposite constraint.
Most software companies rent their future: build, ship, move on. An argument for the older model — the one where you keep what you make — and why Fed Labs is organized around it.