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I normally think “making a profit” or at least “having a credible roadmap to profitability” as necessary to describe financials as “incredibly good.”

Sounds like a desperate attempt to distract from their financials.

For big ones it’s often network effects and/or friction. Those can be pretty good moats even with LLMs. These models are also nowhere near the point where they can actually reverse engineer complex products.

Plenty of managers have thought the same thing and gotten burned. It doesn’t work with humans engineers nor does it with LLMs.

Idk, seems like it’s important to A/B test being “AI native” because it could go badly.

Usability of internal tools is just never considered. Priorities are driven by management. They invariably just don’t care about feedback from the peons that actually have to use them in their day-to-day jobs, even when it results in tremendous inefficiency.

This also allows companies like Workforce to make billions selling the most godawful software imaginable.

Even if she’s not convicted, paying lawyers, time off work, mental health, etc., can still be plenty life-destroying.

That’s not my experience. Treating it as competent and smart has only lead bad places.

Opus makes boneheaded mistakes and engages in severe anti-patterns constantly. I use it, but it requires careful handholding on complex projects. It absolutely isn’t better than 95% of professional devs, that’s a ridiculous statement.

They’re called “stealerships” for a reason.

Machines can’t be held accountable, which is problematic in law particularly.

Yeah, you’re right about that. They view IT as a “cost center” to be cut to the bone (despite being essential to their product and strategy in most cases), while they have no problem with paying consultants astronomical hourly rates for nonsense like this.

I get that these companies (airlines, widgets, whatever) don’t see IT as a thing that generates revenue, but it’s like having electricity or running water. You don’t think about it much, but if you don’t have it, you’re fucked.

Beyond parody

The ROÍ will be happening any day now, we promise. Please hire more McKinsey consultants who say they’re AI experts.

Around where I live, they first shut down during covid with the excuse of preventing transmission. Of course they just never opened up again. Ditto water fountains.

I had 512 in my desktop a decade ago

I have some bad news about how closely Econ 101 resembles the real world…

I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!

Flick doesn’t just do license plate readers. They do all kinds of surveillance cameras.

Sounds like that feature would really cut into their overdraft fees.

There’s been a bunch of airline IT meltdowns in recent years, some much much worse than what you described. Airlines just decided IT is a “cost center” and decided not to maintain it.

Sure. Reasonably reliable backup power is a very good thing, but losing power isn’t necessarily a catastrophe.

They’re assuredly checkpointing, which is SOP for any long training. Lots of things can go wrong besides power loss.

So I take it you’re a marine engineer or similar?

Drug companies spend more on marketing than R&D

If there’s anyone I can trust to give an accurate and unbiased assessment of AI company finances, it’s surely an outfit selling a “finance CLI for your trading agent”

Pictures aren’t mandatory. Most restaurants don’t have them.

In the US, some of those apps were generating gross nonsense like showing an image of a pizza with a sweet pie filling (because the menu said “pizza pie”).

I don’t get how AI images like this don’t open them up to false advertising lawsuits

It must be some 5-dimensional chess he’s playing, it couldn’t be that he’s just an edgelord Nazi whose brain has been liquefied by ketamine abuse

I shouldn’t have been so negative. I still very much like Rust, but hearing about these AI rewrites constantly is tiresome.