This one right here, officer.

What a way to live. I salute you.

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?

Your brain.

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.

I was going to guess that it was one of Trump’s idiot corrupt collaborators or AI, and here it is, Elon Musk’s idiot collaborators.

You’re right, of course, but I really enjoyed “fubuciary”. It’s a deliblicious misplomuncitation.

Yeah, the idea of Amazon running my home security did NOT appeal to me. I went with another brand.

hmmm

Why would musk stop his pet ai doing what he wants it to do? He’s never done that in the past.

I’m not Chinese, but in Mandarin, he and she are both pronounced “ta” (first tone, flat intonation), even though they’re written differently.

“We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

Rich people.

They’re keen for you to blame immigrants for you losing your job, but they’re planning on replacing you with AI and/or robots, because AI is far cheaper than even illegal immigrants who accept below minimum wage in exchange for secrecy.

And because they partly believe their own nonsense about immigrants taking your job, they’re getting rid of them, but what they’ve forgotten to do is listen to the economists who explain that immigrants are typically young and determined, and contribute more than they take.

When the immigrants have all been removed, your country has undergone massive population decline, there are fewer mouths to feed and fewer dollars being spent and so GDP has fallen and there are fewer jobs to go round.

There’s a reason that some small towns become ghost towns: when all the younger people go elsewhere, there’s less to sustain the town, its economy dies and more and more shops shut up.

America built its economy on mass immigration and slave labour. The prisons are still doing slave labour, but the immigration is in reverse.

Exactly. I wouldn’t touch a chromebook with a barge pole. Who wants Google to watch absolutely everything you do?

I’m a mint guy and cis, but I wear my socks at more of an ubuntu level. Is it because I also like functional programming?

Shout out to all the cool trans geeks, though.

Can’t tell you how excited I am to read this headline, despite the feeling that I really oughtn’t count my chickens before they’ve hatched.

Nope nope nope nope nope. Why would I trust a browser written by criminals for criminals or by the FBI/CIA for criminals with my browsing? Nope nope nope.

Looks comfy.

Apply to the EU instead.

This graph clearly shows that AI is also shockingly bad at factual accuracy and at telling a news story in such a way that someone who didn’t already know about it to understand the issues and context. I think you’re misrepresenting this graph as being bad about sources, but here’s a better summary of the point you seem to be making:

AI’s summaries don’t match their source data.

So actually, the headline is pretty accurate in calling it misrepresentation.

Amazon is laying off or has lost truly staggering numbers of experienced staff.

So it might not be AI, although my experience with AI suggests it’s right about 60% of the time and there’s no way I would let it implement it’s own recommendations anywhere near anything that earned me money.

It might just be cheaper, younger, newer staff making mistakes they don’t know how to fix.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/