My prediction on how this will play out is that it will become impossible to exceed the FAANG based on compute price, as the article also points out, but I pred

My prediction on how this will play out is that it will become impossible to exceed the FAANG based on compute price, as the article also points out, but I predict that it won't matter as much. If Amazon has a 50% cost advantage on AI by producing their own chips, then an algorithm working 2x as effective but inaccessible to Amazon would be enough to catch up. So my prediction is that as chip designs get more exclusive, algorithmic research will become more important again. Everyone is using interpreted languages because CPU time is still considered cheap. So if you want to prepare for this future as a coder, learn C++ or Rust.