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ljmyesterday at 6:00 PM1 replyview on HN

They're also getting into cloud compute given you can use the desktop app to work in a temporary sandbox that they provision for you.

I was about to call it reselling but so many startups with their fingers in the tech startup pie offer containerised cloud compute akin to a loss leader. Harking back to the old days of buying clock time on a mainframe except you're getting it for free for a while.


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lelanthrantoday at 7:07 AM

> Harking back to the old days of buying clock time on a mainframe except you're getting it for free for a while.

I submitted this yesterday but it got no traction (I did not write it): https://www.mjeggleton.com/blog/AIs-mainframe-moment