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> The price increases ... made the customers ask the question the AI vendors need them to never ask: "Do we need this?" ... Times are tough, people are going to look at the costs a…

> Context windows are only going to get bigger, that's a given. This is certainly not a given, economically speaking. This stuff is tremendously resource-intensive to run at its cu…

Infrastructure depreciates! More slowly and with less expense in relative terms than an LLM model. You get a lot more bang from your buck from a 10 year old set of under-maintained…

Fiber and railroads don't depreciate after 3 years of use like AI chips. Fiber and railroads don't need tens of billions of dollars in continuing yearly maintenance expenses to kee…

Let's say that Trump was pretty ambivalent about AI until Sam Altman and co informed him that they would have to build a ton of new fossil fuel infrastructure to power the data cen…

> These tools came about because the cost of trying things out has dropped to nearly zero. What an obscenely disconnected and privileged notion. "Nearly zero" still currently equat…

A sane government would take one look at this job posting and regulate this insane industry out of existence.

As if ALL OF THAT doesn't represent inherent and crucial elements of judgement, and therefore"intelligence" itself. We are not purely rational creatures, thank God. Sometimes those…

"AI business plan generation" i.e. "Hallucinate the part of the process where you actually think about your plan for how to spend our money!" I would be utterly mortified and insul…

Did AI take it away, or did you give it away? Now that you've made the Faustian bargain at this low low introductory price, how long until they start ratcheting up the price? How l…

Not impossible, but I disagree fervently with the notion that that "lack of focus is nothing but wasted time". Trying things, experimenting, acquiring a diversity of experience in …

What a bunch of crap. If you spend your life running to and fro and never commit to anything in the end, then arguably you've frittered your life away. But maybe, just maybe, what …

Awesome, I hope they attract a better industry than this. Maybe something that builds useful things for the world, and not a shrieking blight of a warehouse, dependent entirely on …

"Already being generated and sold to other utilities," i.e., "already bought and paid for by you rubes to do useful things like heat your home and run your refrigerator." I'd love …

Here's an eloquent counterargument: emissions. The world is on fire and these clowns are completely fine with dumping a good portion of France's GHG emissions back into the atmosph…

Most of them don't get access. So let's hook them up to an insane, unproven, unpredictable autocomplete math equation and entrust it to their development as a human being. So gross…

Gross

Technology does not exist in a vacuum, nor does anything that is engineered. It's not this abstract stuff detached from the world. PEOPLE make stuff, people use stuff, and people a…

And the leaders of these companies are so genuinely surprised at the fact that the people are refusing this technology. Sam Altman: “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort o…

At least with a person, you can say that there's one person in your org that understands the code after they write it and submit it for review. Maybe they stick around for a while,…

I sure don't. But when I'm using all of those things (pickaxe, mineral mine, power station, internet network hub), I know that there was a thinking human being that took some measu…

"The future belongs to whoever understands what they just shipped." Perfect summary. It's like we invented a world where you can finally, _finally_ speedrun an enormous legacy code…

If code must be correct, and review time is not free, and review time is costlier than code time, why not just ... ... write the code yourself?

If code is now free, why does the language matter at all?

Those Lasko fans have pretty raw edges on the blades of the fan itself, which I think contributes a lot to the noise. If you take the cover off, sand down the nubs and bits of flak…