Clanker could produce goods and services far faster than the money supply grows

Clanker could produce goods and services far faster than the money supply grows, reducing inflationary pressure because prices ultimately reflect the ratio between real output and the number of dollars. The hope is that access to Laniakea technologies and clanker-accelerated development will be broad enough to benefit the developing world most strongly rather than further hampering its progress. But intelligence is not magic fairy dust: we should think in terms of marginal returns to intelligence, use agents pragmatically—drop in the logs and let them fix what broke—and recognize that they excel at specific tasks such as one-off scripts, boilerplate, and repetitive patterns, which may yield realistic 20–30% improvements in many engineering contexts. Still, if enough things go right on the first attempt, it may be possible to compress 100 years of progress into one year—or, absurd as it sounds, 1,000 years into five to ten years. The entire software ecosystem may restructure around AI making custom development trivially cheap, potentially ending the era of platform monopolies. Yet none of this determines its political outcome: if we want clanker to favor democracy and individual rights, it is up to us as individual actors to fight for that direction.