> It's all so unfathomably stupid. And it's going to bring down an economy.

Dot-com bubble all over again

Way bigger and deeper than that, there was some slack in the energy situation remaining at that point. Not any more.

with extra stoopid

Hey, don't forget the climate effects too!

I'm honestly starting to feel embarrassed to even be employed in the software industry now.

I've been telling people I do "computer stuff" since the NFT days.

Five straight years of having to tell everyone who asks about your job that the hottest thing in your industry is a scam sure does wear on a person.

I quit Google last year because I was just done with the incessant push for "AI" in everything (AI exclusively means LLMs of course). I still believe in the company as a whole, the work culture just took a hard right towards kafkaville. Nowadays when my relatives say "AI will replace X" or whatever I just nod along. People are incredibly naive and unbelievably ignorant, but that's about as new as eating wheat.

It's kind of sad, but I've found myself becoming more and more this guy whenever someone "serious" brings up AI in conversation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOELpzRDR-4/

HN has big problem with reading comprehension. First of all $100B is likely what Microsoft demanded on top of what AGI is defined by OpenAI, which is “ highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work” - [0]. Secondly that is no longer part of this revised agreement, replaced with a review by a panel of experts.

[0] - https://openai.com/charter/