AI like Gemini represents a ‘Great Leveling.’ It allows a student in a remote village to have the same quality of tutoring as a student in a private school. However, this leveling only happens if the Access is equal.
The Threat of the Silo
If AI becomes a tool only for those who can afford high-end hardware and expensive subscriptions, it will not be a bridge; it will be a wall.
The Textsmith’s Counter-Measure
This is why we focus on Command Line Tools and Efficient Programming (like Go). By making our tools lightweight and our data local, we ensure that our ‘base assumptions’ include those with limited connectivity.
We don’t build tools that require a 1Gbps connection. We build tools that work in the forge, regardless of the weather outside.
Forged in the terminal. Refined under the anvil.