

This. After reading “huge surplus of money,” I was expecting a 5-digit figure. At current running costs, $6k is two years of runtime, but this assumes in turn that expenses never increase and no emergencies occur, which is extremely unlikely over that time period. Better to save it, I think.
Of course, this all depends on what causes got suggested. I can’t think of anything that’d be both worthwhile and (relatively) cheap, but who knows? Maybe something matching that description will come along.
It’s also worth noting how much funding Beehaw is currently getting on a monthly/annual basis. I tried looking at the Open Collective page, but there’s no easy figure or chart there to look at that I can find.
Uh, sure, so long as you define an “era” as “a period wherein a bunch of C-suites wet themselves over unproven tech.” I hope you realize that something having a lot of money behind it for a few years isn’t indicative that it’s about to revolutionize the world. There are plenty of near-useless things that had lots of excitement behind them, and still didn’t go anywhere.
I’ve seen what GenAI and LLMs can do. It’s a magic trick; it looks impressive, but for almost every possible use case just isn’t helpful, and unfortunately for all of us, the magicians (i.e. OpenAI et al) are douchebags on top. This is not tech worth advocating for.