Last week I published a featherweight narrative about applying GenAI in a real-world context, to a tiny programming problem. Now I’m regretting that piece because I totally ignored the two central issues with AI: What it’s meant to do, and how much it really costs. What genAI is for · The most important fact about genAI in the real world is that there’ve been literally hundreds of billions of dollars invested in it; that link is just startups, and ignores a comparable torrent of cash pouring ou...