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Productics by Igor
Personal blog · productics.substack.comaieconomics
Productics by Igor is a personal blog at productics.substack.com about ai and economics. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “AI Isn't Stalling – The Platforms Are Missing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is about programming skill and links to other posts, so it says nothing about this blog's writing. The thread it appeared in is titled 'Why AI Velocity Is Becoming a Debt Accelerator'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Productics is a publication about the systems behind technology, AI, agentic coding, platforms, incentives, and the economics of building.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Isn't Stalling – The Platforms Are Missing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-18
What Hacker News says?
The basic skill behind programming is thinking systematically. That's different from, say, knowing what exactly IEEE floats are or how to win arguments with the borrow checker in Rust. People who get stuck fail to realize their goals, waste their time, and will eventually give up on using these tools. As for slop blog stuff try https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2026/02/17/acting-... https://productics.substa…
Comment linking /p/the-paradox-of-ai-growth-why-platforms
on “Why AI Velocity Is Becoming a Debt Accelerator”Submitted Subscriptions Will Survive in Only Two Places as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a piece about why so many AI agents drift, skip steps, or fall apart in production even when they look solid in demos. The argument isn’t about model quality. It’s about the abstraction layer we’re using. LLMs don’t execute instructions. They predict tokens. A prompt full of rules isn’t a rulebook to the model; it’s a set of competing statistical pulls. When those pulls conflict, the model doesn’t resolve th…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted European companies don't have an innovation problem, they have an incentive prob as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPeople keep treating OpenAI’s $100B raise as a company story. It is not. It only makes sense when you look at the whole stack. Hyperscalers spent $251 billion on capex in 2024 and are projecting far more. Nvidia’s supply chain is booked 12 to 18 months out. OpenAI raised at a $157 billion valuation on roughly $3.7 billion in revenue, implying a 42x multiple and a roadmap that needs roughly 93 percent CAGR for five y…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted The End of the AI Arcade as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Isn't Stalling – The Platforms Are Missing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Scarcity Trap: Why AI Still Feels Like a Metered Utility as a story · 1 points
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