You are basically saying it is a lie with some cover story. That is also possible.

Give the extreme price and low production of Helium 3 on earth (it is basically only produced as Tritium decay product), "some other source" is just as fantastical as getting it from the moon.

"Free market" is a stupid propaganda cliche that is devoid of meaning.

There are two kinds of markets - competitive and markets with restricted competition.

The markets with restricted competition have the unfortunate feature of "economic profits", money in excess of the economically efficient rates of return. There is only one profitable way to invest this money, and it is to "invest" it into the political process, that is, to bribe the political system so that it extends and even institutionalizes the lack of market competition in favor of the companies that make the excessive profits.

Competitive markets are better in theory, but in practice there is no such thing - theory and ample and incontrovertible empirical evidence show clearly that a competitive market is an efficient, but unstable structure and that in the absence of regulation, even random fluctuations will lead to restricted competition and eventually full-blown oligopolies or monopolies.

Moreover, the power is concentrated in the hands of the executives, which means that this development also hurts investors, especially the small ones who don't have direct access to the government.

It is no accident that the most corrupt administration the USA has had at least since the end of WWII is moving away from regulation, protection of competition and protection of the small investor, it is all a reflection of the shift towards "free marketization", that is, blatant corruption of democracy in politics and competitiveness in business in favor of the new robber baron class.

Maybe a bit more expensive than you thought?

It is high time to regard events such as this as gross management negligence and to start holding the screw-ups personally responsible. Otherwise things will just continue to get worse.

It is even worse: The training data they got in their massive criminal piracy campaign _ages_ and becomes less and less valuable. Nobody is coming out of this as a winner, except for some of the scammers pushing the hype.

Nope. But they are making a determined effort to manipulate people into thinking that.

Good luck with that. DCs of this type are far too specialized for that to happen.

That one is not a surprise: The efficiency gains claimed are entirely fictional. What LLM-type AI is doing is to destroy value. And hence no boom.

The analyses of the whole mess and why it is a mess are getting better. Hopefully the inevitable collapse and return to sanity (with a few major players rightfully dead and soon to be forgotten) is not too far ahead.

I do not think this mess can be fixed. When it gets this badly screwed up, the participants in the disaster do not have what it takes.

In any case an abject failure of a whole community. One that does not look like it can be fixed. The whole thing should be reclassified as "amateurs only" and any professional use made illegal.

Clownstroke has software management practices? Do you have any evidence for that?

They and many others. Obviously they get ignored and the same drastically stupid mistakes get made time and again.

There are good reasons to touch raw pointers in some cases. The actual thing is to be very careful when you do it and really understand what you are doing and what risks you are taking. Most "coders" cannot do that. And hence the mess we currently have. It is entirely a skill and education issue, not a language issue. It is also a management issue in that the wrong people get hired. Add normal engineering liability (like all _other_ engineering field have) and the problem will go away. But so will quite a few major players and hence that desperately needed step gets delayed and delayed.

I can add contracts manually. I have done so in some critical applications with excellent success. But most coders do not even know what a "contract" is.

You are mistaken. The problem is that that "top developer" does not mean "competent and careful developer that knows what they are doing" to most of the industry and even more so to MicroShit. It means "can produce code that works fast, does what the boss wants and who cares about safety and security".