In 1930 Keynes predicted a fifteen-hour week by 2030. Output per hour has since risen as much as he said it would. The hours barely moved, and most of the money went somewhere else.
A data story · United States and Europe, 1870–2026
The usual rule says owned servers only pay off above 60–80% utilisation. A financial model calibrated to 2026 prices puts the line nearer 52%, and finds most established firms paying for flexibility they never use.
An essay with a model · From my master's thesis, 2026 prices
I'm a software engineer with twelve years in the field. I lead AI and machine learning at a cloud-storage company, where my team builds the kind of photo intelligence you'd expect from a phone maker, at consumer scale. Outside work I read and write about economics.
Before that I studied law and then finance.
I live in Sofia, Bulgaria, and work in English, French and Bulgarian.
I take on a small amount of advisory work for companies putting machine learning into consumer products or deciding what AI infrastructure to own versus rent. If that's you, write to me.