1. This extra time is just that we are new to this. As we get more experience and better at it (in conjunction with the tools improving) the time taken will decrease.

2. This extra time is just par for the course (as the last sentence in the summary seems to hint at, though no explanation as to why which it would have been good to see) and once increases in price for tokens over time are factored in it will cost the same amount (or more) for the same output (however now you are also seeing the hidden cost in that the employee is slowly losing their experience / skill at doing the job)

It appears to me that both possibilities could be just as likely and only time will tell.

There's a lot I'm probably missing but it seems to me that as Bitcoin only has value in so much as people believe it has value then once it starts falling past a certain amount it can only plummet from there.
The more it drops the more people freak out and sell and the more people sell the more people lose interest and so on. The more this happens it becomes virtually impossible to draw in new people to invest so the ability to prop it up disappears.
I'm sure the whales will push Trump to try and do something to prop it up long enough for them to get out unscathed but it does seem that we are nearing a tipping point (especially as all the interest / money / equipment is moving to AI, which funnily enough also looks like it could be not far off bursting)

Given the money involved, the combination of Bitcoin plummeting and AI bursting with Trump in charge of the economy could lead to some interesting times.

A lot of the tech titans CEO's were present and sucking up to Trump in the early days, no doubt hoping to gain some benefit from his influence.
Now they must be kicking themselves. If this continues it will actually snowball. European governments moving away from US tech will probably be a financial hit in the $millions. But if flows on. Some employees will like the alternatives / get used to them and start using them at home, other companies that interact with the European governments will slowly switch over too to make interaction easier. All this extra revenue and publicity for European and open source products will help them in growing and improving. As they get better, more people will be enticed to switch. And so it continues...
And once the momentum starts, even after Trump has left, the shift away from US tech will continue.
These companies now stand to lose many $billions in the long term and also the crucial part which is their status as the gatekeepers of tech.

Whilst they probably would like as many viewers as possible, they probably have other goals in mind.
I'm guessing that merchandise sales and leading people to take up Disney+ subscriptions is the main goal and I'd be interested to see what their numbers are for both of those. It could be surprisingly good or it could be similarly lackluster.

If AI is going to take all our jobs anyway and none of us will have any money then what does it matter?

But surely the finance companies can deploy AI warriors to guard their systems.
And then we can have Hollywood come in and make a movie about it. I can't wait to see the movies about battalions of AI guardians taking on hordes of AI hackers. The whole movie created by AI.
AI is the future, yeah!!

Step 1 : Aggressively push AI content, reducing traffic to many websites, to the point that they go out of business. (Many being replaced by AI slop)
Step 2 : ????
Step 3 : Say that you are now going to link to those websites in your AI summaries. (profit)

I wonder if a contributing factor to it being that low is that social media has contributed to the lack of attention, focus and creativity in a reasonable chunk of said youngens.

Would be interesting to discover that social media itself turned out to be a contributing factor in the effectiveness of the social media ban.

My guess is that the people putting this out know this perfectly well. What they are trying to do is put out propaganda to sway public sentiment that the system is not working and should therefore be scrapped. I suspect this content is being funded indirectly by the social media companies.

My fear is that the people putting this out are going to be somewhat successful in their endevours.

No No, you just need to call help desk and they will get you sorted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The clear answer is to go further. They should get AI to check their AI written code for bugs. They should also get AI to mentor the junior programmers and another AI to check on all the other AI's and write a summary for the execs on how it is all going.

It is good to see Judges getting cluey on how generative AI works and constructing robust arguments regarding its use.
All these "creative" arguments that people are using to justify its use could easily seem reasonable to someone who is not tech savvy.

If he truly believes this I would like to see him put his money where his mouth is and start mass firing MS employees and replacing them with AI.
I would love to see others call his bluff and asking him how many MS employees are going and when.

This.
Where I work, everyone was going gaga over AI a year or so ago and almost every discussion involved a comment such as "have you tried AI for it yet?" or "I used AI and look what it did".
Now I very rarely hear AI mentioned in discussions. I see a few people using it here or there to help write a report or tidy up a presentation but apart from that, most employees here seem to have gotten over it and moved on.
I suspect that they are getting worried that they are committing $billions to data centers and when they are finally built the hysteria will be over and the assets will not recover costs.

The news has been filled with articles about companies proclaiming how they are going all in on AI.
I wonder how long until we see the first articles about companies proclaiming they are ditching AI and the benefits / competitive advantage they seek to reap from doing so?