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Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:30AM (#49673343)
The hugging face incident showed that AI agents have the potential produce a lot of spam (not interesting content for people). This leads to dead internet (bots taling to bots). This leads to drop in real people traffic. This leads to a drop in digital ad price and therefore revenue. This causes Google/Facebook to stumble...
Ironic that US companies are monopolistically pushing FUD for regulation and China is pushing open source to the world. How the tables have turned. The reality is the AI trade and "bubble" is masking an otherwise flat, inflated economy. History tells us that the US position doesn't end well.
Re:Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about? on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:58AM (#48719386)
Same as in every other bubble: Housing is insanely expensive, Dating sucks, That friend that just got rich, So and so company just got funded, This event coming up, When's the bubble going to burst
Re:"ChatGPT is I presume broken" on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:41PM (#48638081)
what the hell. I can't unsee what it generated
Re:How long do you think? I give it 3 years on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:43PM (#46700834)
Companies cut ~600K tech jobs since covid purely on AI hype. Now there is actually (some) utility. The bubble will burst at some point (they always do). I think companies cut to the bone at that point. No one knows when the top is but when it turns I don't think many of the cushy knowledge worker (white collar) jobs come back. It was a good run. 1975 - 202X?
Hear me out. I'm excited about this if it means making shopping better. I want a better shopping assistant. I want someone to do all the work for me (read reviews, do product spec comparisons, price, shipping etc) and just tell me what to buy for 85% of things I purchase online. ChatGPT has this potential, but sucks at it. I'm probably going to buy it on Amazon. Work together and it'll be magic for me.
Re:New Apple Watch cases is 3D-Printed on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:38PM (#45975240)
Did they develop this capability outside the US?
Re:Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:47PM (#45735280)
Does this signal the a big market for AI processing is at the edge?
My assumption is that most users won't actually care if the LLM is in the cloud or device. That said, quite a few folks have iPhones and Apple's only way into the AI race is to go to it's strength, 1B+ hardware devices that they design the silicon for. They will produce a phone that runs a local LLM and market it as private and secure. People upgrade every couple of years (lose or breaks) so this will drive adoption. I'm not saying people will vibe code on their iphones.
Based on the recently released graph of how people are using chatgpt. ~80% of use cases (practical guidance, seeking information, writing) could presumably run on a local model.
The bubble pops when Apple releases an iPhone that runs a good enough for most things LLM locally. At that point cloud hardware investments will plateau (unless some new GPU melting use case comes out). Investors will move from nvidia, AMD into Apple.

The short case for Oracle (via ChatGPT)

Here’s the clean “short thesis” on Oracle (ORCL), with the biggest swing factors and near-term catalyst checks.The bear case in 8 bulletsValuation looks frothy vs peers. After the post-earnings melt-up, ORCL trades around 45x forward EPS, well above Amazon and Microsoft near 31x, which leaves little room for execution hiccups. ReutersBacklog quality and concentration risk. Oracle’s remaining...

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Re:How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:16PM (#45190799)
I give this one a big maybe.... What's definite is Cook talks a lot about design but clearly has no handle at all on function or marketing. Everything from the overly scripted, mercurial presentations to examples used in canned videos is all so far from reality it's a caricature of itself.
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:34PM (#45186473)
The lack of authentic examples diminishes the impressive tech. Great design is all about function. Why is it so hard to show how this would actually be used in the real world?
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:32PM (#45186424)
Impossible to oversee. Everyone presenting was so old. It's like they were imagining what was hip and cool. Lets have a women doing salsa facetiming... who would she even be talking to in that scenario??
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:29PM (#45186370)
Agreed live translation on airpods killed consumer smartglassses killer AI feature.
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:26PM (#45186285)
Long time apple fanboy. I've watched most of these unveilings for the past 20 years. The new phones are impressive. But it was all speeds and feeds. The examples felt so wrong. The women dancing while on the phone. The guy running with while recording. The person needing translation to buy roses? None of those feel grounded in reality. It's like they are building tech for made up in corporate conference room use cases.
Re:Snap breaks into 'startup squads' as ad revenue stalls on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:15PM (#45176977)
Every time I read about a big publicly traded company say something "we're like a startup" I just LOL. Startups win by doing something really disruptive that actually works. You only hear about extreme success. Most things fail. If SNAP allowed each startup squad (10 users) to actually operate like a startup, they'd launch 500 unique disruptive features per month, every month until they hit a growth curve. I'm skeptical that's actually happening.
Re:996 on Saturday September 06, 2025 @06:42PM (#45153588)
I don't personally have any regrets, because I'm that kinda person. But there are people who prioritized travel, dating, health and personal experiences who have better stories from that period than I do knocking out bugs or shipping a feature that no one ever used. I bought into the mission of the founder. Sure he remembered me when he saw me, but I doubt he thought of me once in the period in between. I remember feeling pretty disappointed after that encounter. Like I bought in, put in the work, it didn't work out and the guy that I followed didn't even remember my name. Prior to that encounter I shared that experience as a badge of honor. After reading this thread and posting here I can't help but think what a waste of time...
This is wild. Meta, OpenAI, MSFT, Nvidia are collectively keeping the AI trade alive, which is propping up the stock market and overall perception of the economy. This admission makes it clear that the AI spends are being made up not based on business value/demand...
Re:996 on Saturday September 06, 2025 @12:18PM (#45150571)
Totally. The point is, this guy who's mission I dedicated a good portion of life to clearly doesn't think about me at all after the fact. I'm sure he's gratefuland values me. But if I was part of his story he'd remember my name.
Re:996 on Saturday September 06, 2025 @11:07AM (#45149938)
True story. I grinded hard at a startup for years. This was a decade ago so the concept of 996 wasn't part of the lore yet. But it was fun. We stayed late and I made life long friends. I worked closely with the founder (really awesome dude) as I was an early-ish employee. The company ended up not working, our equity went to zero and we got what you get when you don't get rich, experience. I ran into the founder randomly on the street years later. He didn't even remember my name. He recognized me and was excited to see me, but he had no idea what my name was. So yah, prioritize your life.
Re:MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS on Friday September 05, 2025 @04:03PM (#45142981)
because developers would immediately make ick apps that violate privacy or do black mirror type things that would kill any momentum
What does this even mean? "Progress isn’t linear. It’s dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it’s also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before."
checkout www.Airwave.us. They are focused on field services where techs comb through thousands of pages of manuals/documentation for part numbers or specific instructions that have to be 100% accurate.
Re:Did OpenAI Just Kill Glean? on Friday June 27, 2025 @12:40PM (#44398204)
Are corporations really comfortable dumping all their data/files to openAI?
smart glasses is exactly where I saw this interface working and being developed for
Re:Object firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:51PM (#44228677)
aliens?
Re:WWDC 2025 [video] on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:32PM (#44226861)
I can't help but think, jeez these features solve (non-existent) problems for first world rich people.

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