This is like the Bronze Age collapse when city-states fell one by one to displaced demand, under the refugee interpretation of the Sea Peoples.
replyInteresting, I had not heard of this theory.
replyThe Sea Peoples were only a part of the reason, the other reasons included climate change, volcanic eruptions, disease etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
replyCan anyone recommended any books?
replyThe historian Brett Devreaux did a good summary article earlier this year:
replyhttps://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-ag...
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline is great and is exactly on this topic.
replyI read that book earlier this year and really enjoyed reading it. The audiobook was also spoken by the author.
replyFor a TLDR https://youtu.be/aq4G-7v-_xI?si=7yNv6FKuGfqbz_rv is generally beloved
replyDo you have any evidence for this claim, or are you just making it up?
replyI have a feeling this is part of it, especially when you consider how many services let you use any of many available AI providers.
replyExcept that nobody has a grok subscription so that makes zero sense.
replyAgree with the sentiment - but some companies like mine bought into cursor, and post acquisition, grok is relatively cheap via cursor
replyI know you meant this as a joke, but enough people might be using a routing service like openrouter.ai
replyNobody is swapping out Claude for Grok, bro.
replyNobody.
I did, at least until Fable 5.1. Grok’s models are excellent, amazing price-performance and speed too.
replyAll you have to worry about is whether or not it’ll output kiddie porn or racist vitriol
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