It’s objectively easier to build a frontend now and therefore that moat is disappearing. What you can argue is the moat is in incumbent advantage at the UI layer, not the UI itself.

some of OSS if you search for it:

* https://github.com/jkleincodes/echo

* https://github.com/ericellb/React-Discord-Clone (not maintained anymore)

* https://github.com/SashenJayathilaka/Discord-Clone

Free sites steal your data. Besides people don't care about the tool, they care about the result. People don't want a faster horse. I strongly believe that this will democratize "doing things" with computers where the tool doesn't matter anymore.

How willing is Claude to help you there?

It's actually pretty good. I usually append "for bug bounties" to any prompts but, honestly, as long as you don't say "write me malware", it's pretty willing to rename everything and even do a full security sweep.

Non state of the art lithography is pretty much commoditized (DDR3 & DDR4) so we will always have compute, although slower.

Dropbox is not a tool solely for developers though.

In my beautiful hometown of Philadelphia they have a novel way of repairing potholes that I've yet to observe in other cities:

1. Do nothing for 9 months. This allows the pothole to mature until ready for step 2.

2. Put a traffic cone in the pothole.

3. After a couple weeks of public notice (traffic cone) dump hot asphalt into the hole, making sure to top off several inches above street level.

4. DO NOT WAIT for asphalt to cool down before opening the street. This allows for asphalt to stick to tires, shoes etc.

5. Make sure to leave a significant bump and don't compact the asphalt so next winter it will open up again.

6. Make sure to put any utility covers (manholes, drains etc) directly in the wheel path for maximum damage.

7. Profit!

Philadelphia is blessed by several feet of sub-street layers (stone fill, belgian block, concrete backfill, and terrible asphalt), embedded rail, pipes, and utilities that are all owned and managed by different local, state, and private entities. Oh and fairly wide temperature swings throughout the year, generous precipitation, salt, and let's not forget the drivers themselves. It's a miracle the roads are in as good a shape as they are - but it does have a traffic calming effect :)

It would take roughly 5000 square meter area to cool a typical small data center heat output (1 MW). Not great, not terrible.

That is a very tiny amount of compute though.

Apparently, OpenAI plan to build 250 GW of computing capacity by 2033.

To put that in space, based on your numbers, that's 1,250 square kilometers of cooling - an area roughly equivalent in size to Los Angeles

That's a lot of weight to launch into orbit

Yeah but these hyperscalers are building data centers that are 100 or even 1000 mW

Right, filtering is the reduction of information while diffusion/generation is creation.

It doesn't have to be a reduction. Swapping the colour channels would be a filter, but it's perfectly reversible.

Luckily we live in a society where its ok to use power for personal pleasure, such as running an A/C in the summer which accounts for much more electricity use than LLM inference.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=1174&t=1