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5h ago

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
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Slop software houses are gonna PAY BIG for losing human talent.

23h ago

Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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And which vehicle you go to work in dwarfs them both. Two things can be true at the same time.

23h ago

Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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Let’s hope the winners are slightly less ghoulish than our Oil barons.

What a foolish hope!

$200,000,000,000 debt.Who well pay it?You talk like gravity doesn't exist!

You're wrong if you think that it won't be heavily reliant AI customers like software companies who spend five years removing codewriting skills from their workforce and building up technical debt in their codebase because no one has to understand it in those five years and there's a lot of subtle, hard to spot bugs that got through code review because humans simply don't make those kinds of errors and no one ever had to spot one in their life before claude came along.

Did you think that enshitification wouldn't affect the product? Yesterday's computers and cars were easy to disassemble to replace parts. Now it's much, much harder, and it's very common to void your warranty if you do that. Today's ai generated code is easy to tinker with and you can do what you like with your end product. Why would it stay that way? Why wouldn't they engineer it to make that harder? It's not difficult to make code confusing by changing variable names. I could fuck up your codebase for humans by simply swapping names like productSKU and customerID, let alone writing obfuscated code for any purpose whatsoever and with whatever variable names I like.

Some software companies are outsourcing their talent to AI behemoths with mountains of debt to recoup. Guess who's going to pay the debt! And what's the point of such a company in the long run? Why are you speedrunning paying to replace yourself?

There will be an AI crash and "consolidation", meaning a switch to monopolies or near monopolies. Some companies are shedding institutional knowledge and programming skill like it was waste water. Once dependence comes, value extraction will follow it like disease follows unvaccinated infection.

There is already $200bn in debt and growing rapidly. The shareholders aren't going to be paying it. The ai customers are.

1d ago

Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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There was an article a bit ago explaining that most AI companies are making a 95% loss. You know, spending 100, receiving 5 loss. All that debt is going to mean the price for AI is about 20 times lower than it needs to be just to break even. The software teams that came to rely on AI to save costs will soon enough find themselves on the hook for this mountain of debt. Enshitification is real. Enshitification is coming. AI will not stay cheap, convenient and free of advertising.

1d ago

Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses internal targets for active users and revenue — Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave shares all tremble on the news

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And so it begins.We will all pay for this in the end.

2d ago

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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How else are they going to begin to recap their billions and billions of debt? Someone has to pay for all those data centres, all that hardware, all that power, etc etc etc. It will be the companies that have come to rely on AI.

Sure, for now, AI is a lot cheaper than an intern, but it doesn't become an expert like a human does. And Amazon used to be cheaper than other retailers right up until they had achieved vast market share.

This cannot be the last 10x price multiplier they pull. Not even close. Firstly they're way, way, way off from recouping their costs, and secondly, they're still way, way off market value for an incompetent human intern who isn't learning much.

Uber didn't enter the market to open up taxis to new drivers and bring down prices, that was marketing. They entered the market to take a cut out of ever taxi fare in the world, and drive up prices at peak times to many times the agreed fares, especially in regulated areas.

Similarly, AI didn't enter the coding market to drive down prices and enable greater access for folk to generate code. They entered the coding market to receive the wages of programmers and drive up prices in in-demand fields. They are not unaware of how much companies pay devs. Why else would they have spent all those billions in advance? Where is the payback coming from?

2d ago

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Your brain.

2d ago

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!

Not even close. Most AI companies are making something like 95% loss according to an article here a bit ago. So if you're an AI provider, you need to multiply prices by 25 before you even begin to eat into your insane levels of debt.

2d ago

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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AI has the same relationship to truth and trust that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has: truth is absolutely not part of the equation whatsoever, except in as much as it may be necessary to say some true things in order to establish trust.

Giving such an entity executive power is to ignore a vast and ever growing body of information that you ought not to trust, yet here you are, hanging over the keys to the plausible-sounding nonsense monger.

What about Nigel Farage? Well of course, he's an absolute liar, a man who chose the dark side decades ago, who knows he's in the wrong but strangely thinks it's somehow bad to try to do good.

Boris isn't a liar or evil in the conventional sense, it's just that he absolutely wouldn't dream of letting whether something is true or good be part of decision-making any more than he would lock himself in a cage in public for the week, consult with ants about his route to work or hop on one leg all the time.

So it is with AI.

2d ago

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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I enjoyed these two sentences so much.

2d ago

everyone thinks they will be calm

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I enjoyed this story.

2d ago

Journalist sacked for doing actual journalism at EU press conference

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Have you watched the TV show “Happy!”?

No..

I bet someone wanted to keep that plot out of the cultural zeitgeist.

What was the plot?

5d ago

California Democrats defeat bill to provide "CalCare" universal, single-payer healthcare

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you aren’t allowed to talk about it.

And yet here we all are, talking about it.

5d ago

I have fond memories of these days

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Uhhh, the browser extension offers to download from pretty much any youtube video, but not always all. If there's one that won't download, it's worth trying again after the next realplayer update.

The videos end up in my real player videos folder, from whence I can watch them uninterrupted.

5d ago

Obliterated

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I think in British English buggered literally means to have received anal intercourse and figuratively means for everything to have gone wrong for you. Synonym for shafted.

I've never heard it used in reference to sexual crimes against animals, so I don't think "usually" is right.

5d ago

Obliterated

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I don't think the animal bit is right.

5d ago

Obliterated

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What?! Dad didn't mention animals, just "some men".

5d ago

I have fond memories of these days

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Uhhh, if there's a video that you don't want to be held hostage to intrusive ads or buffering during a bad internet connection, realplayer can help with that.

6d ago

I have fond memories of these days

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We used to play Space Invaders after Karate while we were waiting for various parents to pick us up.

If you got one of the high scores, you used the left/right joystick to scroll through the alphabet and the fire button to select.

I couldn't shake the feeling that they called it the Java Development Kit because JDK, who held nine of the ten high scores, ended up working for Sun. We never knew who JDK was, but when Michael moved to our school, he wiped the floor with JDK.

Once, he made the high score table sayYOUAREALLLZSbut we threatened to put him permanently in defence for lunchtime footy if he didn't make it say you are all NOT losers. He changed it toYOUARENOTALLLZSwhich we thought was fair because by his own admission, Colin was a bit of a nerd.

Joke's on us now, though, because Colin the nerd was a late bloomer, dated an ultra pretty goth girl at university who he's still married to, (she's not goth any more) and having weathered the dot com bubble, the credit crunch and the rest and stayed on top, is seriously considering early retirement because he can, and doesn't like the look of what AI is doing to the tech industry. He still makes fun of himself today and winds up his teenage daughters with how badly he uses trendy phrases he ever hears from them or their friends. Great guy.

6d ago

I have fond memories of these days

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Average amount. My friend had donkey Kong on his Commodore 64, and it was so cool, but we had jet set willy on our spectrum 48k, and a bunch of pokes from computer magazines to give you infinite lives or make you immune to monsters or make them disappear. Happy days.