Would have been? EVs are exactly that. They’re great. Ones with range can easily replace cars with internal combustion engines for most use-cases. Usually costs me about $5 a month to keep mine charged.

Fully agree on LLMs being expensive messes that aren’t very useful, though.

I mean, it seems pretty obvious at this point. The data centers aren’t getting built in time for all the hardware they’re buying up to get used, so it’s just sitting in warehouses and will be obsolete by the time any of these new data centers are built (if they ever actually are). And Jensen Huang has been waxing poetic about a future in which people don’t own computers anymore, they rent them to run AI agents on.

I’m not saying this is a sane and rational thing they’re pursuing, and it’s certainly doomed to failure because no one wants to rent computer time to run AI agents. But trying to prop up the AI bubble certainly seems to be the primary goal of all this ridiculous hardware purchasing.

What are you talking about?

It’s related to the AI bubble. The AI companies are trying to make it as difficult as possible to get a good PC, because they know they’re cooked if the general public has access to systems that can run AI models locally, so they’re buying everything up as fast as they can in the name of data centers that will never be built.

As soon as the first one fails, it’s all over. Prices will tumble and memory makers will come crawling back to Valve (and other hardware makers) begging them to buy.

If you’re referring to the Chinese Room, I don’t personally find it to be a compelling argument against the hypothetical possibility of AGI. The proposed room has no way to store information, no way to incorporate that information into its system, and no way to initiate activity without external input.

Heck, now that I think about it, it’s actually a pretty good description of the way LLMs actually work. But not the way an autonomous thinking agent works.

It’s absurd that this is even a question for some people. We may get AGI someday, but a vector database that generates streams of tokens based on tokens that it receives as input is never going to be it no matter how huge you make it. It lacks a world model, it doesn’t have the capacity to update itself with new information, and - most importantly - it doesn’t even do anything until it receives input.

And the assholes pushing this as potential AGI fucking know all that already. They know that without input, LLMs literally do nothing. They’re not sitting there going, “I think therefore I am” while waiting around to hallucinate dangerous medical advice and fake case law at people. They are static and unchanging.

It’s not a theory. A theory would have some evidence or reasoning behind it, even with the colloquial version of the word.

No, what’s actually happening is a propaganda campaign. A really obvious one. And the same rich people proposing this “theory” are the ones directly and intentionally funding it.

Why are you like this?

It’s listed as medium severity and appears to require the hacker to already have terminal access to the system. It’s also already patched and there’s a quick and easy workaround if your distro doesn’t have the fix yet.

Should actually be “thou shalt.”

Fight.

The only thing - the only thing - these fucking oligarchs care about is money. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even their own lives. Money is all. So deny it to them.

Buy used computer equipment. Never new. Stop using Google. Stop using Amazon. Definitely 100% stop using ChatGPT, Claude, or any other LLM. If you feel you have to use an AI model for some reason, save up and invest in a machine capable of running small models locally.

Make the AI companies bleed. And at the same time, reward other companies that do the right thing. That want to sell something other than dumb terminals with AI wired in.

I mean, fuck, there are plenty of companies that hate this shit too, because it destroys their businesses. Not their business models, their actual fucking businesses. No game developer or PC manufacturer is any happier with these AI monsters eating all the RAM than we are. They know if it persists it’ll put them out of business. It’s not like Dell or HP wanted to just stop being able to sell hardware.

Unless you’re checking every line and have a good enough and comprehensive enough understanding of the codebase to spot subtle bugs it will try to introduce that aren’t caught by your tests, you’re still opening yourself up to problems.

This is a recipe for SQL injections, race conditions, memory leaks, and keys being placed directly in code.

Trust the output of an LLM at your peril. Literally.

I feel like I’m being gaslit as I keep reading that there are developers that feel they successfully offloaded the task of coding.

That’s because you are being gaslit.

The people making those claims are either a) not developers in the first place, with no awareness of just how shit the “products” they’re pushing are, b) paid astroturfers trying to prop up AI, or c) former actual developers who’ve become addicted to the speed that’s possible with AI who are downplaying how crappy their own code quality has become because they have no familiarity with their codebase anymore and have forgotten how to do so much as a for loop.

All these people claiming 10x or 100x gains, and everything they’re making is garbage no one should or would touch with a ten-foot pole.

My god, the accountants who eventually have to clean up this mess will make so goddamn much money.

Oh, but they provide hallucinations and bug-ridden, incomprehensible code faster than anyone! That’s progress, right? Right?

AI expected to create efficiencies

Couldn’t help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, as well as making people stupid. But one thing it absolutely doesn’t seem to do is make things more efficient long term.

To me this translates to, “America’s military is being led incompetently and we don’t want anyone to see the real damage being done to it.”

Jesus fucking Christ, this is the stupidest possible way to start WWIII.

No they didn’t. CloudFlare created a vibe-coded knockoff of Next.js that will be a nightmare to maintain and no one with half a brain would touch, so they could get a few headlines from credulous outlets like The Pulse.

In reality, this garbage will wither away quickly, because it’s a security and stability nightmare created by one guy who hasn’t read his own code and doesn’t actually know what’s in it.

How about a $10 billion fine for OpenAI for every mistake? Make it hurt. Make them pull the plug on this travesty.