Archive - Curiously Optimistic

How Much Money Did We Make Today, Dad?

My daughter runs pipeline oversight from the top bunk. Her chore-chart arbitrage taught me more about "AI is cheating" than anything I've read in media.

Aug 7 • Bob Girton

July 2026

The last inch of copper: why AI's next decade is a power problem, not a transistor problem

2,000 amps at 0.85 volts is the engineering problem industry is spending hundreds of billions to solve. Here's the plain-English map of who's building…

Jul 31 • Bob Girton

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