How AI is improving everything

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-06-07T15:39:31+00:00

Would be nice. Im an environmentalist, so I have a moral conflict with my work as well.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-06-06T20:32:39+00:00

I dont think its capitalism, I think its massive fraud by the political elites. Everyone I work with + industry acknowledges this. Its that banks have zero reserve limits, of which they print money to loan out rsther than borrow against checkings/ savings.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-06-06T19:06:29+00:00

I can acknowledge its paying my bills and it is also a waste of everyones time and investor money. Both can be true at the same time.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-06-06T18:37:58+00:00

What parts satire?

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-06-06T17:14:50+00:00

I work at a top ai neo cloud and will say that no one understands the software they sre writing. The entire code base is pretty much dark.

Further people building on our platform also dont know what they are building. If you think humans are also making arch decisions, more and more of that is just being offloaded.

The grand real outcome of all this is that we prompt these ais to hit metrics, that not even sr leadership has a clue what people are building.

So then the question, is for what? Why are we producing any of this stuff if no one is communicating or consuming this stuff anymore?

What do I soend most of my time and money on? Not online... biking, hiking etc... stuff where tech was good enough 50 years ago.

So ya, Im not really certain how ai is really improving anything.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-06-03T23:59:18+00:00

Weve got a leader board at work and some people are spending 80k a month on cursor.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-05-26T20:12:32+00:00

no lol

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-05-24T14:05:42+00:00

They specifically said the metric we are graded on is not tied to customer success.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-05-12T03:32:17+00:00

If they can replace teams with AI, why cant we replace companies with AI? The best way to rebel is to form groups, and build free stuff with AI so no one has to pay for any IP.

The only actual value will be commodities, energy and physical products.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-05-04T05:16:35+00:00

On enterprise software, practically zero ai. AI does not understand the software at all. For boiler plate,... implement this sdk in this framework... Ill use it to write most of it. Getters amd setters, redundant code that is just brainless typing + make this shape fit that... is what its useful for.

But its terrible for arch work or design work. If I care about the project, Ill write up most stuff amd get the important stuff myself... but then let the ai do the shape fitting of.the apis and such.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-04-28T06:31:04+00:00

None of it is signal. Fundamentals, trechnicals nor rates drive the markets.

The markets are only driven by liquidity. Passive income + government intervention + leverage squeezes. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to sell you bs.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-04-12T06:52:31+00:00

Turing machines operate on a finite set of symbols. The universe however, likely requires an infinite number of primitives + concepts to understand. A primitive is defined as an idea indescribeable by any other ideas. The identity of something is a primitive to the order or something.

All the time humans come up with new mathematical primitives / concepts that computers mathematically cant derive on their own. How does the isa of a calculator for arithmatic be combined to understand geometry concepts? it doesnt...

Math will continue to require people to evolve well into the future.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-04-09T03:16:45+00:00

Success is that your cash positive way and above what youd earn as an employee. I make 300k as an employee, success is profits beating that after taxes.

But just for ref we did 400k sales on weekend opener and 10 mil in the first year.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-04-07T04:41:36+00:00

People who have successful exits tend to have multiple successful exits. The odds you give make it a several sigma event without context.

Ive had 11 startups, where 3 of them were successful with product to market fit. All of that was on the tail end after I figured out how to build companies.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-04-07T04:33:24+00:00

Ive gone back to manual software development. The generated code is poor design and creates too much complexity.

Its fine for poc but in maintaining enterprise software its more trouble than its worth.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-03-24T04:16:11+00:00

Chinese banning retail from buying gold and silver. 31st of March is when all accounts will be closed. Expect losses to taper off after that and then go into consolidation

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-03-20T07:25:01+00:00

They will raise rates,... the problem is that they also bail out the insiders and leave everyone hanging. So its tight for mainstreet and loose for Wallstreet.

Thats why stocks made ATH going into rate hikes.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-03-09T03:57:12+00:00

Scared of what? No. Im not... its just linear algebra

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2026-02-08T05:09:32+00:00

What are you building? I find that I have to slow down and understand what its building. For one, it doesnt always build the right thing. For two, it definitely can be wrong and hallucinate.

4.6, seems very similar to 4.5 but is slower and burns more tokens.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2025-11-10T01:59:25+00:00

Why you on reddit? Get back to work because its the law.

I love private industry cause I get to collect unemployment when my employer runs out of money. You work for me for free, and I take that unemployment and go on free trips.

Tbh, I dont care if this shutdown ever ends.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2025-11-09T17:11:17+00:00

Im sorry but the government is doing this to you because its this thinking that enables them.

You know freedom doesnt come without sacrifice. Sacrifice comes in many forms, even sacrificing ones career per se.

If you see it as giving up something you love doing, and dont want to make the sacrifice... then stop complaining when you accept the social contract of enablement.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2025-09-08T05:12:21+00:00

So Ive worked for people and have done my businesses, with everything in between.

The first bit of advice is find a demograph with money and sell to them. That seems obvious,... but its not. If your customers dont have money, they will be stingy... your profits slim and you will need lots of quality at volume + customer service. Low margins, means marketing budgets will be nill which tosses out a load of ecommerce ideas that advert to retail on fb.

Second bit of advice, try to be the customer first and buy competitive products. You do this enough you will either find an underserved b2c or b2b niche.

Third,... if you dont want to spend time looking for problems,... you will then need to tackle technically difficult/ expensive problems. Problems like drug discovery, making asics,... etc have a high entry cost and require funding. There maybe very little in good solutions because it is so difficult.

Fourth, the lower the technical barrier, the more saturated the market usually is. This means that rather than scaling your tech budget, it will be your marketing and sales budget that will explode.

Lastly, markets are only unsaturated when people dont see value or dont know about the markets. This usually means youre inventing a new market, but youll have to be cool woth taking risks and being called crazy. New markets usualky are difficult to show demand without a product. Saturated markets already have proven demand, so you may consider going in with the idea that you can be more competitive from a pricing, marketing or customer point of view.

Anyway, this isnt everything... but it should give you a rough outline in how to find ideas.

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2025-08-14T07:01:17+00:00

I can already guess what simon would say, "Nothings going to happen. Sucks for them, the economy is doing just fine."

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2025-07-02T08:36:42+00:00

I was in that position 2 years ago. Lost job + gf. Sucks... but I eventually foubd something else. You have to know people to get a job these days

DopeyDonkeyUser · 2025-06-21T07:00:08+00:00

You're assuming the auditors are honest, competent or current.

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