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A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
- edot 3mo agoCarpenters? Are we making the data centers out of wood?
- bmcniel 3mo agoCarpentry tends to span beyond direct woodworking. Installing Drywall over steel studs is one example that might apply to DC construction. >Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpentry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpentry
- SoftTalker 3mo agoI'm not sure carpenters do drywall, that's usually a specialized crew. But they might do the framing/assembly of the steel studs. And hanging doors, fitting the raised flooring, installing shelving/cabinets, etc.
- ryanmcbride 3mo agoThere is frequently wood in buildings yes
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3mo agoHomes, not these buildings. Wood's a liability when it comes to fire suppression.
- pessimizer 3mo ago> Homes, not these buildings. I would bet that there is a ton of wood in these buildings that they are hiring thousands of carpenters for. They are not hiring carpenters to entertain the electricians.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3mo agoMy grandpa was a card-carrying union carpenter. But all I remember is him doing general labor... all the actual carpentry jobs were gone before I was born, and I hit the half-century mark myself a few years ago. He worked with concrete and steel alot. I'd seen him put up cinder block too, picked that up somewhere I guess. And this was in the 1980s. I'd take your bet, while trying to hustle you to raise the wager.
- 1970-01-01 3mo agoEverything I'm finding is showing the opposite with the exception of Microsoft experimenting with timber datacenters. Just looking at photos of DCs under construction shows they're all steel and concrete.
- quickthrowman 3mo agoThere is zero wood in a data center (or commercial building in general) excluding doors, millwork, and fire-rated plywood for mounting equipment on. It’s simply not allowed. Data center are tip-up warehouses with walls made of reinforced concrete, metal bar joists, metal columns, and metal roofs. Any interior wall framing is made of steel.
- deadbabe 3mo agoSo there is wood.
- tokai 3mo agoZero wood except all the things that are made of wood, got it.
- quickthrowman 3mo agoAll of that stuff is probably 0.01% of the building, by volume/weight/cost/labor or any metric you care to choose. The structure itself has zero wood in it. Trim, cabinets, and doors can all be removed from a building and it will remain standing. If you remove all of the wood from a stick-built house there is virtually nothing left.
- arjie 3mo agoI don't know anything about this so I am curious: that doesn't sound like a lot of wood work so why are the AI companies recruiting so many carpenters?
- MSFT_Edging 3mo agoThe forms needed to pour concrete is my guess.
- quickthrowman 3mo agoSteel stud framing is done by carpenters, any interior partition wall framing is done by carpenters. Also any soffits, front for gypsum ceiling clouds in offices, etc will be framed by carpenters. Maybe Meta has them install doors as well?
- toss1 3mo agoNot usually, but the same standard framing and drywall techniques work using the more modern steel stud systems. Here are a few that came up at the top of a DDG search you can peruse to update yourself. https://studcosystems.com/ https://studcosystems.com/ https://www.clarkdietrich.com/products/structural-studs https://www.clarkdietrich.com/products/structural-studs https://www.steelconsystems.com/ https://www.steelconsystems.com/
- xur17 3mo agohttps://archive.is/f1p75 https://archive.is/f1p75
- cynicalsecurity 3mo agoBefore you decide to change jobs - the demand in electricians is caused by a temporary massive construction boom of data centers. Maintaining an already built data center doesn't require much personnel. It's a clickbait article.
- palmotea 3mo agoYeah, it's exactly like that oil boom in North Dakota. There was a brief, massive increase in demand for construction labor to build oil rigs, and you had "man camps" an the like. Then once the rigs were built, the employment dropped massively because it takes a lot fewer guys to run an oil well than build one.
- SoftTalker 3mo agoYeah I remember the excitement about oil field jobs... was it about 10 years ago already?
- bpodgursky 3mo agoNorth Dakota's unemployment rate is 2.3%
- palmotea 3mo ago> North Dakota's unemployment rate is 2.3% So? What's your point? During the boom, laborers from all over went to North Dakota to work in the oil fields, and for the unemployment to say low there, most of them had to leave. And, IIRC, North Dakota wisely refused to build too much permanent infrastructure to support that population, because they knew it would be transient. If there was much effect on unemployment statistics, it was probably in other states (though I would guess the effect was more on wages than binary employment). My point is boom jobs evaporate, and give a recent example.
- Danox 3mo agoOther than farming, what is there to do in North Dakota or South Dakota? Most of the people who live there if they want to do anything else they have to go someplace else. Most of those data centers built in relatively remote areas. will have just a few people working at that data center. It’s not going to bring lasting prosperity to that midsize or small town.
- jermaustin1 3mo agoThere are a few Data Centers going up within a couple hours of me, it has pulled all of the trades people away from us. I've called around to every electrician I can find online, or been recommended by neighbors, they are all out of town for the foreseeable future. Same with HVAC and to a lesser extent plumbers. I've had to learn a lot of skills this summer trying to get some repairs done on my house, and I've had to pay some extreme "fuck off" prices for work that I couldn't do myself. My father-in-law is a construction manager for a large power company, and they've been expanding their footprint as well for these datacenters, and hiring like crazy to speed up their construction. He said it will be a few years before the independent trades people become more available.
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- tomhow 2mo agoPlease don't sneer at groups/categories of people like this. Even if it was true (obviously it isn't; many in the software industry have been laid off in recent years), it's still unkind and inflammatory. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kristov 3mo agoIt's nice to hear tradespeople getting paid well with lots of work. I'm happy for them :-)
- willis936 3mo agoYes, that's good. It also prices out a lot of other better uses for their labor. Projects I work on have seen prices soar. I don't consider building the things everyone hates because they promise concentration of wealth and an attack on labor at the expense of building literally anything else to be somehow a big W for labor because a few people get a slightly higher temporary paycheck. Ask the Wagyu cows how they feel about the hand they are dealt.
- bpodgursky 3mo agoThere's sort of no winning here! AI unemploys middle-class workers: AI is stealing jobs from the middle class! AI employs unionized middle-class workers: AI is stealing cheap labor from the rest of us!
- paul7986 3mo agoAnd in time AI robots will reduce the need for these blue collar workers who are presently helping replace the white collar workers. Just learned of a new acronym today "NILF," not in the labor force with over one million supposed NILFs out there -- dropped out and gave up.
- anthk 3mo agoGood luck with robots traing to lay up bricks, or doing plumbing in a home.
- paul7986 3mo agoUmmmm in time it's inevitable as in 2026 you do not need any skill to be a computer programmer. AI has replaced that once valuable skill and will continue it's way through ever white collar job til the robots (5 to 10 years) start taking the blue collar jobs away. The blue collar job boom is great present day, but what they are helping build is their machine driven replacement. Maybe this all sounds hyperbolic, but it's what Musk and all the AI overlords have said as far back as a 2013 or prior. Musk and Altman have noted the need for everyone to be on welfare (Universal Basic Income) since then. And no doubt we see this taking shape now within white collar jobs that once we held in high regard like programming being replaced by AI. I just created a whole startup web design, front-end, back-end development, native iPhone app, Android app and more using Codex (previously i hired others to help me a UI Design Front End guy).
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- ragebol 3mo agoI would have thought this would be about electricians and carpenters with camera's on their heads to train AI. Apparently not yet. Imagine robots (humanoids or something more specialized) building datacenters...
- luxuryballs 3mo agomight take a while I expect there's a lot of regulation around using a licensed electrician, that kind of thing needs more legislation to allow a robot to replace it, I am speculating
- green_wheel 3mo agoIt's coming... https://www.navigate.ai/ https://www.navigate.ai/
- jerlam 3mo agoI would think that data centers would be using as much prefab / modular construction as possible and on-site work would be as limited as possible. Those prefab factories may not exist though, and companies want to build out now before the market is mature, instead of a long-term play.
- bluGill 3mo agoThey likely are. However you still need someone to connect the wires to each prefab section.
- emsign 3mo agoThis is horrible. AI industry is sucking the economy dry of resources and labor, making everything more expensive who is not an AI company.
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- 9x39 3mo agoAre they? Or just creating a demand shock and a monopsony? Amazon has hired so many journeymen electricians from our area that apprenticeship waiting lists have exploded. If you can assume that happens where the demand is being bought up, jobs could fail to emerge even if wages go up for existing experts. In any case, the externalities like power and water draw or pollution rain down on the locals permanently, even if trades enjoyed a brief period of demand. It's not like a city emerging. It's a big warehouse that's pretty sparsely employed relative to its size.
- SR2Z 3mo ago> Amazon has hired so many journeymen electricians from our area that apprenticeship waiting lists have exploded. If you can assume that happens where the demand is being bought up, jobs could fail to emerge even if wages go up for existing experts. If there is more sustained demand for electricians why on earth wouldn't more people become electricians? Right now there's a supply crunch, but unless you think the US will keep building datacenters at this rate forever the problem will eventually go away.
- 9x39 3mo agoPeople would become electricians if it’s sustained, but trades tend to have boom and bust cycles. Additionally, you have significant hurdles to becoming one. You have to qualify to be an apprentice, be taken on under a journeyman or higher, and have documented hours to advance. My point was that journeymen often at an electrical shop who have apprentices are recently at Amazon without apprentices because Amazon is bidding wages so high they (to some extent) abandon the apprenticeship system. The waitlist I was talking about doesn’t reflect new demand from entrants so much as a backlog that is no longer clearing as people rationally defect and go work for the data centers who have different priorities. Overall, it will balance out but I don’t think the NYTimes should be let off for carrying water for capital trying to fix data centers PR by misleading people thinking this will create jobs in their communities or some nonsense.
- cmiles8 3mo agoThe same thing happened with the oil sands boom 15 years ago. Industrial sites were losing skilled trades people left and right as they went up north to make 2-3x their salary. Then that bubble popped and these folks were tossed onto the street before they could blink. By all means go make money if the opportunity presents itself. I love to see well compensated trades. But be under no illusions that when the bubble pops (and it will) you’ll be tossed aside before you know what happened. So make money now, and milk these AI players for everything they’ve got, but just have a clear plan on what comes next.
- AirMax98 3mo agoSame as always, got it.
- signatoremo 3mo agoThe clear plan for electricians and carpenters is to eh continue to do electrical and wood works. Or do you think they would be out of work if there are no more AI-related jobs?
- saturn8601 3mo agoThey might if many of the white collar people that pay them can't afford to pay them anymore.
- paxys 3mo agoWhat will happen if the bubble bursts? It’s not like homes and businesses won’t need plumbers and electricians anymore. If you have the opportunity to make a lot more money for the next few years (maybe indefinitely) and in the worst case go back to what you were doing before, why wouldn’t you take it?
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- eddyg 3mo agoGift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.5fEj.rFBMdMeVhPpP&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-cen...
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoThat's quite a spin on AI coming for your job if I do say so. ;) Hope they get their money's worth.
- Zsfe510asG 3mo agoAs long as Nvidia pays you to buy Nvidia, which the stock market increasingly does not like. RAM manufacturers are falling, and today after the MSFT numbers are out we'll see additional CapEx worries.
- giardini 3mo agoThis is part of why housing prices are going up.
- simianwords 3mo agoI think this will cause the same effect as energy bills going up - other people are going to pay for the increased wages of carpenters.
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- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoUSA is not building anything. Private companies are. And unlike regular infrastructure projects (housing, transportation, energy) this won’t really benefit the public at large when it’s done. It’ll just enable companies to churn out more slop, faster, and reel us further in. Or to put it another way, a semiconductor, car or airplane factory wouldn’t really count as “infrastructure”, would they?
- badc0ffee 3mo agoElectric utilities are certainly building out infrastructure. It's needlessly costly and slow in a lot of places, but it's happening.
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoSorry for my crappy phrasing! I mean in the current building spree for AI, not in general.
- elmer2 3mo ago"this won’t really benefit the public at large when it’s done" I'm currently enjoying subsidized AI usage at relatively cheap prices from these same companies. It's cheaper than a cell phone bill and most people can afford it. "Or to put it another way, a semiconductor, car or airplane factory wouldn’t really count as “infrastructure”, would they?" No, but flying on an airplane 50+ years ago was only for the rich. Everyone I know now has flown somewhere, and it's very obtainable. I remember cell phones in the 80s being > $1 minute and a sign of being wealthy. Capitalism can and does bring the costs of these things down. Data centers will definitely benefit the public, as long as the government doesn't decide on creating their own monopoly.
- WarmWash 3mo ago>won’t really benefit the public at large when it’s done Then the public should make them look like fools and not pay for AI. But if people are paying for it, then they are probably capturing most of the value it produces. Paying Anthropic $20/mo is a trivial cost to recoup if it assists with your work, even at $60 or $100 it still makes sense for many.
- 1970-01-01 3mo agoCarpenters? As in carrying around a framing hammer and nails? I'm not sure they have the right term here. I'm not familiar with these wooden datacenters.
- j-bos 3mo agoThis is generally the right term. Carpenters also refers to the guys who put up metal studs, doors and things of that nature. But they might be referring to the people who put up their framing for the concrete structures and molds.
- fcatalan 3mo ago"Aluminium carpentry" is a thing around here: people that build and install window frames, metal gazebos, conference stalls, custom sheds and so on. These huge data centers probably aren't using the quaint standard data center server cabinets.
- 1970-01-01 3mo agoA mason would be doing the concrete work. Metal studs and doors is usually done by the drywall and framer subcontractors - which could also be a carpenter - but drywall at datacenter or any commercial scale is almost always done by a framer and drywall specialist. They headline is using the wrong term.
- Diogenesian 3mo agoIt's plausible quite a few smaller datacenters have modern engineered wood frames. Wood is pretty high-tech these days. Engineered wood is cheap, lightweight, preserves as well as reinforced concrete, and increasingly for new residential buildings under 5 stories. It would be competitive in a bidding process considering the investors clearly have an appetite for risk. But even for a steel and concrete datacenter you would want a few carpenters for the interior where humans (at least occasionally) work, more to help with scaffolding and other temporary buildings (e..g housing) during construction, and building framing for drainage ditches and other landscaping. I imagine wood-and-nails carpenters are quite in-demand for most datacenter projects.
- kvisner 3mo agoI would be very careful about basing your career decsions based on this trend. The data center build out will always be very boom and bust, which would really suck to work in. One year you would be making 300k working on dataceters and the next you would make 30k because thousands of electricians are now competing to build a few single family homes.
- axus 3mo agoIndustrial electricians have always been in the boom-bust cycle. IBEW (Union electricians) have been doing really well this decade. Another option if you don't want to be a contractor or an Anthropic employee. But they've also gone years without enough work to go around. Scroll down to this comment for a better discussion than I could give: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098874
- 4d4m 3mo agoover before things even started if that's the point at which one's aware
- nerdbaggy 3mo agoAt least in NYC IBEW has mandatory furlough, months without work, etc. And the members are stuck because they will get fined if they work for a non union place.
- axus 3mo agoMy understanding is the union members can move to another local and sign up for work there. Not an easy lifestyle, chasing work around the country.
- chasd00 3mo agoAlso, an electrician just doesn't pop into existence. You have to go through years of apprenticeship and union dues payments.
- duxup 3mo agoI'd want to get those payments up front ... if you do, good deal for now.
- wslh 3mo agoBefore reading the article, I assumed AI companies were recruiting electricians and carpenters to capture their expertise to train robots or AI models on how to plan an entire project from start to finish: "Guide me through building a complete house".
- gattr 3mo agoOh, I thought it's about AI companies asking people to wear those little head-mounted cameras, in hopes of gathering data to train future robot-electricians.
- jelder 3mo agoElectricians, sure, but carpenters? I figured these buildings always had steel frames.
- jqr- 3mo agoFraming, whether in wood or metal studs, is done by the carpenters.
- Animats 3mo agoNext, plumbers. The future of data centers seems to be more liquid cooling and less ductwork. Take a look at this new 1 megawatt server rack.[1] It has more pipes than cables. All that coolant flow and all that electrical power in a crowded space is scary. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ssp1t-g_wM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ssp1t-g_wM
- Esras 3mo agoListen to the video again, he clarifies early on that this is supporting multiple racks. A megawatt is 1000kW. If you took 5 B300 systems (10 rack units each), you'd still only be at 75kW, which if you're doing redundancy properly, means you have wired 150kW to the rack, but you're not generating a megawatt of heat.
- Animats 3mo agoNVidia has been talking about 800VDC 1MW racks for about a year now.[1] They're trying to get others to solve the power and cooling problems. The Schneider Electric view: [2] The view from Flex.[3] This was being talked about more in 2025 than it is now. Nobody seems to have deployed a 1MW rack yet. There are major problems to be solved for that level of power density. The fire protection people want racks in fireproof enclosures with a built in inert gas extinguishing system and smoke detectors that pull in air from many points for very fast detection. The cooling people talk about 400 gallons per minute of chilled glycol. The power people talk about arc flash protection and worker safety. This is a scary level of energy density. Not hopeless; the switchgear and semiconductor inside locomotives are at comparable levels. [1] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-800-v-hvdc-architecture-will-power-the-next-generation-of-ai-factories/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-800-v-hvdc-architec... [2] https://blog.se.com/datacenter/2025/10/16/the-1-mw-ai-it-rack-is-coming-and-it-needs-800-vdc-power/ https://blog.se.com/datacenter/2025/10/16/the-1-mw-ai-it-rac... [3] https://flex.com/resources/megawatt-racks-are-coming-how-800-vdc-architectures-reduce-losses-and-remove-constraints https://flex.com/resources/megawatt-racks-are-coming-how-800...
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- draginol 3mo agoI kind of wonder how much this is also going to fuel humanoid robots.
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- kittikitti 3mo agoThe graphs and data included in the article look legitimate but it's just embarrassingly misleading. For one, correlation does not equal causation, and by displaying a trend for nonresidential construction you imply AI data center is the cause of it. Second, the trend looks convincing only from the specific window in time and ignores the many years the government tracks this data. I didn't expect anything more from the New York Times who wrote this suspiciously favorable article about Big Tech. My take is that electricians and carpenters are a great profession. I have great respect for them. I would have also mentioned NVIDIA's worker programs to setup AI infrastructure but this article was too biased in favor of Meta. Sources: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLNRESCONS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLNRESCONS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLRESCONS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLRESCONS
- jongjong 3mo agoI think that by the time AI can fully automate software engineering, it will be able to fully automate physical electrical work. The challenge in both cases is all the invisible, hard-to-describe stuff that people are doing which business people take for granted. Business people don't consider "minimizing complexity" to be something software engineers do, but it's literally the most important part of the job for any large complex project and it's almost impossible to measure. Even humans are pretty bad at it but at least there is a limit. With AI, there is no awareness of this and more complexity means more tokens to sell today and in the future to maintain so there is a perverse incentive and no guardrails. Also, software engineers make a lot of decisions based on human factors and factors that are unique to the company/project. For electricians, the part which AI struggles to automate is robotics and stuff like travelling to the job location, ensuring the right cables are available, identifying the right port to plug the cables into, drilling holes if necessary, climbing into the ceiling, pulling rolls of cables along the ceiling or wall with appropriate attachments, setting up the electrical boxes. I think in the near future, all manual jobs will be replaced by a combination of specialist robots and generalist "human minders"; a minder will be transferrable across any industry and the entire job will be exception handling any unexpected issues which the engineers didn't yet train or program into the specialist robots.
- lstodd 3mo agoYeh i see you never went to a location to be surprised by reality. Dream on.
- dang 2mo agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You're welcome here, but we're really trying for a different kind of internet discussion, so we can't have commenters breaking the rules so badly.
- AIorNot 3mo agoAnd tech companies are firing developers and tech staff by the thousands
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- throwawayffffas 3mo agoGet it now, while the getting is good. Chip maker valuation in Korea is going down[1]. The bubble may be coming to an end sooner than we would like. 1. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-kospi-drops-7-global-chipmaker-selloff-deepens-2026-07-28/ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-kosp...
- einpoklum 3mo agoQuick, before the bubble bursts and everybody gets fired.
- 1saadcodes 3mo agoThis is a good reminder that every software revolution eventually becomes a hardware and infrastructure problem. Someone still has to build the buildings, wire them, and keep them running
- stuaxo 3mo agoSo - when the slump comes it will be possible to get an electrician for your house or to fit solar panes, but the chance of having money to pay for it is another thing.
- captainbland 3mo agoThe data centre build out is one thing but I'd be surprised if they weren't having a few generate training data for robots as well at this point.
- notesinthefield 3mo agoMy next door neighbors’ tiny (>50 people) electrical company has been booking millions in lighting protection installation work across the east coast. Theyve made more from dc work in the last three years than the previous 20.
- 8bitsrule 3mo agoGotta spend all those revenues while they're still worth something!
- Animats 3mo agoThe next demand for those trades will be for war plants. For those who haven't noticed, the US/Israel/Iran war and the Ukraine/Russia war just merged. Countries currently shooting at each other: Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait... See the lead story in the New York Times for the past two days. This war has crossed an important threshold. No pair of countries, one on each side, can stop the war now. The US and Iran can no longer stop it alone. Ukraine and Russia can no longer stop it alone. This is very like WWI - too many combatants with differing motivations. This much isn't a projection. This is the current reality. It looks like a long war. Expect a very large, expensive military buildup. That's going to need war plants, built in a hurry. Ammunition. Weapons. Drones by the millions.
- afavour 3mo ago> For those who haven't noticed, the US/Israel/Iran war and the Ukraine/Russia war just merged. In what way? > No pair of countries, one on each side, can stop the war now. The US and Iran can no longer stop it alone. Ukraine and Russia can no longer stop it alone. It seems to me like you’re undermining your point here. No two sides can stop it alone because they are separate conflicts. The US and Iran can agree to stop fighting. Ukraine and Russia can do the same. The reason they don’t affect each other is because they’re separate conflicts.
- RussianBot9580 3mo agoWell, no, because those aren't the actual parties of the conflicts. In the case of USA/Iran the US is essentially Israel's proxy. It's up to Israel to decide when the fighting stops. OK, fine, Iran could capitulate and essentially stop being a country. They'll get right on that. In the case of Ukraine/Russia Ukraine is a US+EU proxy. It is up to the EU leadership to decide when the fighting stops. OK, fine, Russia could capitulate and stop being a country. They'll get right on that.
- bawolff 3mo ago> > For those who haven't noticed, the US/Israel/Iran war and the Ukraine/Russia war just merged. > In what way? Presumably they are referencing Ukraine recently shooting an Iranian (i believe) merchant ship. However its kind of silly to say the wars have merged based on a single incident. We dont even know if it was intentional.
- andsoitis 3mo agoAdditionally, that gives you a large sample of people whose body movements you can track to train a world model.
- Aeroi 3mo agoi've been building Camera Search for two years now to help tradesmen build and fix things better. kind of meta that the models running in data centers can now help the tradesmen building the next data centers. full loop.
- h4kunamata 3mo agoJust like IT during COVID, everybody wanted to work in IT, companies were hiring by the hundreds. Look what is happening now, companies firing by the thousands. AI bubble is already here, watch people becoming electrician/carpenters only for the AI to go sideways, then more hundreds of such workers unemployed. Don't follow trend, look at what happened with IT and folks leaving university now can not even land job interview. Do what you love, not what it is trending.
- Frieren 3mo agoWhy should software companies hire electricians and carpenters by the thousands? Because these are not AI companies, these are infrastructure companies as their main source of revenue and cost is renting and building infrastructure.
- torginus 3mo agoWhich has been a general point about AI - it's expensive to build and expensive to run, and requires a lot of infrastructure. Which is increasingly making it look like software might turn into a limited margin business, like making cars.
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- BretonForearm 3mo agoIt hasn't ever been "A.I.". N.Y.Times looks sooo ancient.
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- zombot 3mo agoSo AI still needs human hands to do its bidding? I thought they are going to put everyone out of work?
- igleria 3mo agoIt was a pain in my butt trying to find an electrician that would do my house rewire. thanks, AI.
- nizbit 3mo agoSmells like MCSE of the early oughts. Fun times.
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