When constraints in computing break, nobody predicts what comes next
Every major constraint in computing history eventually broke. When it did, nobody predicted what came next.
Storage got cheap — we didn’t just store more files. We got Spotify, Netflix, YouTube. Entire industries that couldn’t exist when every megabyte had a price tag.
Bandwidth got cheap — we didn’t just load pages faster. We got real-time collaboration, cloud computing, video calls replacing flights.
Subquadratic just shipped the first production LLM where attention scales linearly with context. 12M tokens. 52x faster than FlashAttention. 95.6% on RULER 128K — slightly ahead of Anthropic Opus 4.6.
If it holds, context just got cheap.
And the interesting question isn’t "what gets faster?" It’s "what gets built that couldn’t exist before?"