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by strange_quark 9mo ago
Yeah, all of this. Plus companies have avoided hiring and training juniors for 3 or 4 years now (which is more related to interest rates than AI). Plus existing seniors who deskill themselves by outsourcing their brain to AI. Seniors who kn
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
I have a feeling that AI psychosis is more prevalent than we realize, especially in software.
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
By being in the right place and right time once, making it impossible for users to leave, and buying up all their competition before they become a serious threat.
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
I really recommend “More Everything Forever” by Adam Becker. The book does a really good job laying out the arguments for AI doom, EA, accelerationism, and affiliated movements, including an interview with Yudkowsky, then debunking them. Bu
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
> When I see Dario say all this I wonder what he's seeing that seems so differentiated from my POV Billions of dollars
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
I think self driving cars is a good analog. We got lane centering and adaptive cruise control pretty much universally, and some systems are more advanced, but you cannot buy a fully autonomous car. Sure there’s Waymo and others pushing at t
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
Why would it only be a year of updates? Just go back to how it was 10 years ago when most software was a 1 time purchase and you got updates until the next major version, then maybe you'd only get bug fixes and security updates until y
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
I’ve used Claude code to debug and sometimes it’ll say it knows what the issue is, then when I make it cite a source for its assertions, it will do a web search and sometimes spit out a link whose contents contradict its own claim. One time
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
I mean yeah, they have some sort of deal with Palantir.
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
Yup, same experience here at a much smaller company. Despite management pushing AI coding really hard for at least 6 months and having unlimited access to every popular model and tool, most code still seems to be produced and reviewed by hu
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
Is this satire? This comment could not be a better example of what the linked article is talking about.
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
> Frankly it blows my mind that so many developers have so little actual understanding of cost associated with AI. I’ve seen all the same bullshit as you. We have a claude slash command to add one of 4 labels to a PR. We have people usin
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
There’s been reporting on this in several mainstream publications that was accurate as far as the systems I worked with. Unfortunately I don’t want to dox myself on here, so unsatisfyingly the best I can offer is “trust me bro”.
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by strange_quark 9mo ago
On the contrary, it’s the companies doing the lawyering. A disengagement is when the vehicle reverts fully back to manual control. Tele-operation does not count as a disengagement, and the frequency of tele-operation intervention is a close
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
Ok, and then? Taking a one time discount on a rapidly depreciating asset doesn’t magically make this whole industry profitable, and it’s not like you’re going to start running a GB200 in your basement.
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
> But hey, Opus 4.5 can cook up a functional app that goes into your emails and retrieves all outstanding orders - revolutionary. Definitely worth the many kWh and thousands of liters of water required, eh? The thing is in a vacuum this
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
> You and I need to learn to let it go. Definitely, it’s an unhealthy fixation. > I'm sorry to tell anyone who's reading this with a differing opinion, but if AI agents have proven revolutionary to your job, you produced not
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
Sure, business travel is definitely still a thing. But every company I’ve ever worked at has sort of accepted that travel days are lost anyways because people come in from all over the country, get in at different times, have delayed flight
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
In the age of ubiquitous video conferencing, does it really make sense for business travel?
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
But it's only an inflection point if it's sustainable. When this comes crashing down, how many people are going to be buying $70k GPUs to run an open source model?
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
Big tech laid off 150,000 people last year despite constantly beating wall st expectations and blowing more money than the Apollo program on a money losing technology with the stated goal of firing even more people. Totally insane that most
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
Every time: Can we see the prompt? No. Ok, can we see the artifact? Also no. In the Xitter thread she literally says it’s a toy version and needs to be iterated on. How much longer are we going to collectively pretend this is so revolutiona
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe because all I’ve seen for the past 3+ years until very recently has been breathless think-pieces about how this specific version of AI is the future and everyone has to get on board or
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
The next sentence is “The Bay Area has converged on Asian-American modes of socializing” As if there is a single Asian-American culture and no Asian-Americans like going out to bars… The whole piece is littered with weird over generalizatio
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
> I believe that Silicon Valley possesses plenty of virtues. To start, it is the most meritocratic part of America. Oh come on, this is so untrue. Silicon Valley loves credentialism and networking, probably more than anywhere else. Excep
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
Even if that’s true, that seems like a putrid number, no? Assuming a single 1GW the data center runs 24/7 365, it’s consuming 8.76 TwH per year. Only being able to generate $10-$12B in revenue (not profit) per year while consuming as m
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
I honestly cannot tell if this is satire. Literally a Lord Farquaad level take. Some of you may get asthma and lung cancer, but that’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make to ensure we can deliver MechaHitler to the masses.
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
I’m also not convinced that any of these models are going to stick around at the same level once the financial house of cards they’re built on comes tumbling down. I wonder what the true cost of running something like Claude opus is, it’s p
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by strange_quark 10mo ago
People said this about Uber 15 years ago, and well, that didn’t happen.
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by strange_quark 11mo ago
Correct. More succinctly, this what happens when the share price becomes the product.

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