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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by IncreasePosts on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:10PM (#50407599)
But is it a race to zero? Maybe AI will make very expensive things (eg software engineering) very cheap, but there will be enough competition that the margins are tiny and don't actually justify putting crazy dollar amounts into research
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by move6729 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:20PM (#50407689)
That's exactly what's happening. Software -> 0 marginal cost (obviously still need engineers to actually make the architecture). LLMs -> Price of Energy / Amortized Cost of GPUs. "AI Labs" -> Owned by Creditors
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by s_u_d_o on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:04PM (#50409586)
From an engineer, who’s devastated by this, i have to admit/raise my concern: why do we still need engineers to make architecture? Why is everyone saying that’s a must? For me the toughest problem was coding a huge repo/pkgs, architecture should be much of an easier task to do. I’ve seen it do sys design, scaled architecture better than 10X engineers. With good planning, context and prospective info -> it can produce extremely good architecture even for complex systems.
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by nonethewiser on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:26PM (#50410176)
Im not sure I would say architecture specifically. Just anything on the input and output.
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Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr... by move6729 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:02AM (#50410811)
It cant lmao (skill issue)
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