Very cool background, thanks for the history.

How the fuck is this investment going to amortize?

Mainly labor and consumer marketing, right? Dramatically reduced need for skilled labor to build and ship a product, or deliver a payment-worthy service at scale. Dramatically increased impact and faster "rpm" of efforts to capture consumer spending or attention.

e: Anecdote to explain where my POV is: I just left the Army a month ago. I'm dealing with the possibility that I am prepared for exactly 0% of the current and near-future reality of business and the ability to make meaningful money, because of the AI revolution. I know zero things about computer science. This weekend I completed putting together about 50% of the tech stack required for a piece of software I had an idea about while smoking my celebratory post-Army joint, entirely using ClaudeCode and then chatgpt to guide me through the rest. Most of my peers that got out of the Army are starting their MBA programs right now and I wouldn't be surprised if I surpass their marketability in the private sector by the time they graduate.