Sovereign systems

https://www.scry.llc/2026/07/2...

you don't hand your national economy over to Anthropic or OpenAI.

Same applies to State and local governments, etc

perhaps not a hack but I'll let ChatGPT explain:

"an architectural observation on page 7 that jumped straight out at me: Australia's Signals Directorate warns that accountability becomes difficult because decisions can occur across a “chain of models, tools and services.”

That's practically an argument for the governance/control-plane architecture we've been developing: don't merely govern the LLM; govern the chain of agency and state transitions"

you have a nebulous chain of accountability.

https://www.scry.llc/2026/04/0...

South Korea just pointed out the future...

https://www.scry.llc/2026/07/2...

or you can throw up a digital.maginot line because you're so heavily ego invested in "code".

who argues over assembly code anymore?

https://www.scry.llc/2026/04/0...

GCC committing suicide.

Might as well move to Spain and wait for the Horde to overrun them.

I spend most of my time on strategy and concepts, I estimate that my coding throughput with Chat is roughly double now but mostly bacause I've already laid out a design for it to follow, I'm not guessing or reworking much.

I've mentioned this several times. Standalone open source models have several advantages - fixed operating cost, high security due to lack of 3rd parties, control.of behavior, etc.

https://www.scry.llc/2026/04/0...

https://www.scry.llc/2026/07/1...

A history lesson: "the "age of masonry" ended around 1870 to 1890. This period marked the shift from heavy, load-bearing stone and brick walls to the mass-production of rolled steel I-beams and skeleton frame construction. Steel frames took the structural weight off walls, transforming masonry into a mere exterior veneer."

I've been expecting this period for 15 years.
Most code egotists won't last long.

https://www.scry.llc/2014/05/1...

"a classic example is the American car industry, which went from 1500 companies to today's Big Three (and the occasional glitch like Tesla)."

https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...

"Assume the declining cost of information (COI) has driven economic activity for fifty years. Then the stagnation or increase of COI could be disasterous for the economy. The preceding graph shows an inflection point in Internet user growth, implying that Internet growth is slowing and will soon stagnate"

I'm thinking of moving off Github and maintaining a legacy account for verification purposes. I quit LinkedIn when MSFT bought it and debated about Github when it was bought Thinking about new Buzz platform from Dorsey. I think banning LLM code is suicide but it's not my problem.

"Assume the declining cost of information (COI) has driven economic activity for fifty years. Then the stagnation or increase of COI could be disasterous for the economy. The preceding graph shows an inflection point in Internet user growth, implying that Internet growth is slowing and will soon stagnate."

https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...

"We could build a COI monitor by creating a weighted market basket of information-related costs and prices. Cost of microchip inputs versus their price. Cost of telecom inputs versus their price, etc. Monitor changes over time to throw a warning flag when the Information Revolution has peaked".

nice description of classic econ 101, which is a valid model over certain conditions.
now is not that time.

https://www.scry.llc/2022/06/1...

The real reason the System.pushes "savings" is to keep their fiat out of circulation to prevent inflation. Fiat money is about dangling a carrot now to get performance,and fifty years later you discover it's all vapor.

"the number of hours worked in the information sector has dipped since 2022, while the sector's economic output has increased by about 8 percent a year".

I told you so. :)

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

"The real cause of economic depressions is the mismatch between production time and consumption time which occurs gradually as productivity rises. Governments then create make-work jobs in a haphazard attempt to maintain consumption (equilibrium). Eventually, the impedance mismatch leads to collapse and a new system. We are probably on the verge of that change."

Recessions are an inventory adjustment and usually 12-18 months long.

Depressions are structural changes in the economic foundation lasting several years. Notice falling hours since 2022 comment.

rose 37% on Cramer's negative outlook. :)

for hyperinflation, haha

I've posted this here several times in hopes of sparking a clue. Here is a graph and explanation of the US workweek from 1860 to 1940, when it declined from 60 hours, to 48 hours, and the today's 40 hours...

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

Here is the corresponding Cost Of Information theory...

https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...

You can describe the economic theory of equilibrium with two linear equations which describe the optimum balance of production vs consumption over time as the rate of productivity rises.