In my experience, IT is rarely listened to. I suspect it’s just too ephemeral for people to understand. Even when shit hits the fan, they don’t understand the cause and effect.

Maybe it’s different at a company whose product is the tech itself, but when it’s not, you have to play a different game. It sucks, but it’s reality.

That makes sense. For all we know someone on his staff has been pining for his job and been whispering in the boards ear for a long time

I am surprised by the market and boards response to this, when you have someone like Elon who was visibly on drugs in the oval office and he’s still puttering around causing problems

You can run litellm as a proxy to not even worry about changes in the API (much).

It still makes sense for very small teams where the burden of maintaining the infra is too high, but if you have 2k engineers it’s a no brainer to self host. It’s only a matter of time before open weight models can process vision as well.

If you own chip stocks, they all sank. If you own “boring” companies, they all had gains. It’s just realignment. Also people like me who were holding cash because shit was too wild

That’s a stretch. I know code style can feel like an art form (and in a way, it is), but the results is that matters. No user ever on earth care what the code looks like. Not a single one. It only matters to other engineers, but that’s the same for other trades as well. When was the last time you gave a shit about how your plumbing is routed in your house or apartment? Other plumbers sure as shit do. But you or I? Don’t give two shits just want hot water and good pressure.

I hook mine up to some classical static analysys tools like sonar or codacy. Just ask it to remove the security findings and haven’t had an issue. Then again, been on vacation while all this shit has happened, so don’t know what to expect when I return.

The quality doesn’t matter. Look at a product like netsuite which dominates corporate accounting. It’s a total piece of shit. And overpriced one at that. But it has oracle in the name, so an executive can choose it with little thought and not take any blame because it was a “reasonable” choice that “everyone” uses. Much of corporate life is monkey see monkey do. Rarely does innovation happen because trying something different is a huge risk to some middle manager or execute that is just trying to make it to the next promotion or bonus.

Not worth the instability on society from the job loss. Also claims like faster traction times are questionable.

Personally, I don’t want a computer making life or death decisions in the heat of the moment

Yeah it’s basically useless for agentic work. Especially with frontier models.

Anecdotally, I have software I wrote entirely by hand, started by hand and ended with ai, and AI from the start. Anything I had ai touch in the last 6 months has caused this for me. I barely have the attention span to read what the agent is planning to do. I can only conceptually review at a high level and direct it that way. It gets worse every week.

I think part of it is me not spending enough time setting things up so it writes code like I would, so I am reading a strangers code really. But even then, I find myself reading it for no more than 10 seconds and being like “ugh just ask the AI”.

I have caught myself a few times about to ask the AI to change something that I could easily do myself still.

I know that if I stopped using it for a week and sat down with the code I had generated, I would understand it, but the thought of doing so has somehow become exhausting. It’s a real issue.

I’m learning a lot in this thread about European dystopia. I guess if y’all like it to each their own. Over here in the US, we’ve had enough.

I’m honestly surprised anyone likes self checkout. It’s such a pain in the ass. Almost always have some sort of error that I need to wait to be rescued from.

Maybe it’s different where you are from, but where I am from human cashiers are way more efficient.

I think for small to medium sized businesses, those who are using cloud providers already, they will continue to purchase ai compute just like they do any other cloud service. For larger enterprises that have the manpower to maintain physical infra, it will be cheaper to self host inference.

For regular users, I suspect most people will use a provider, but are not nearly as willing to pay for it (at least not that much more than a typical streaming service). Power users (especially younger ones with more time in their hands to spare) will use local inference.

How much of Amazons $2T in earnings is AWS earnings? If that already includes AWS spend, then $6T isn’t gonna happen any time soon.

I’m partial to windows 7, but it’s been a very long time since I have considered myself remotely close to a power user. Windows 10 is meh. Windows 11 is a dumpsterfire of epic proportions.

MS couldn’t even corner the AI world being a primary investor in openAI and having first dibs. Like they could not execute. They have too much Baggage now. VERY IBM. They will coast with their business contracts and that’s about all they can do, ride intertia.

It’s a symptom of billionaires. The CTO needs to make the CEO happy, and the CEO needs to make a whole board happy. The board needs to make the investors happy.Who are the investors? Greedy billionaires. Sometimes the board too.

I have a 2011 Honda Civic, and it has just enough tech to allow Bluetooth calling. Everything else is old fashioned. I’ll have the engine completely rebuilt before I buy one of these bullshit new cars.

It must have a sim card somewhere right? How else is it phoning home?

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