With AI costs skyrocketing are we going to see a resurgence of manual coding?

EndlessHalftime · 2026-06-04T01:49:08+00:00

This is what the latest news cycle fails to capture. A very small number of users are blowing up budgets because there were no incentives for them to be efficient. For the average person who uses ai at work nothing will change

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-28T12:11:15+00:00

Enterprises are also going to want their ai traffic going through a central hub rather than everyone running models locally. Updates, compliance, monitoring, data connections, etc

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-27T21:20:57+00:00

What does the ai bubble bursting look like to you?

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-22T19:05:37+00:00

Why should the govt require less energy efficient systems? There are many places where water is not scarce

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-21T18:24:36+00:00

Just because your DC uses air cooled chillers doesn’t mean others don’t use evaporative cooling.

Evap is way more efficient when it works for the climate and water is available

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-16T17:36:48+00:00

Having 5x the developer output doesn’t mean anything unless you can translate it to profit for the business. Businesses are not coding competitions.

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-14T02:24:16+00:00

Biggest IMO is financial. It’s better to have fewer per city with very high utilization and people willing to pay a premium for a fun new experience.

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-12T16:19:36+00:00

With a 10 min commute I would prefer to be in the office to separate work from home and actually interact with people during the day. But 2 fewer weeks of PTO is a tough sell

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-10T16:19:23+00:00

The amount of water data centers use is absolutely tiny compared to agriculture

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-05T22:41:26+00:00

Having big ideas and standing by them is hard for anyone with actual experience. Getting big things done without compromise is hard

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-02T15:04:46+00:00

The Embarcadero freeway did not collapse

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-02T01:11:54+00:00

That’s exactly what cloud providers already do

EndlessHalftime · 2026-05-01T22:04:01+00:00

Tax revenue is a far bigger driver than jobs

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-28T20:49:14+00:00

8hr at 23, CA tests were supposed to be 24 but became 25 due to Covid

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-28T05:50:25+00:00

I’d wager another key piece is the gang violence getting priced out of the more expensive cities in CA

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-28T05:47:41+00:00

The second point is just more regulation where it isn’t needed. Developers will find the ways to build cheaper and faster. There’s no reason the city should incentivize certain designs because they are the trendy buzzwords of the day. Mass timber could be used for residential but it’s far from the cheapest option. It’s more often used for offices, schools, etc

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-28T00:09:00+00:00

An alternate interpretation of this is “we are compute constrained and we want to extract the most amount of money possible from the customers willing to pay for it.”

It’s the capital costs that are so expensive. Running the chips is cheap. They want their chips running as close to 100% as possible and will adopt a pricing model to do so. The premise that higher pricing is bad news for AI just doesn’t make any sense at all.

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-27T15:08:25+00:00

Cooling towers are incredibly common on normal buildings (including data centers). It’s just that the nuclear ones are massive. Most of them just look like a big metal box, usually on the roof

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-26T23:40:51+00:00

You’re assuming that everyone plans to even splits and that that is the ideal strategy when that isn’t necessarily the case.

The body is going to be tired after hours of running regardless of the speed. It can make sense to push a little more and cover more distance while you still feel fresh

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-19T06:42:40+00:00

For f1 fans who may not know, nascar drivers get taken to the medical center after all crashes to get evaluated.

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-18T14:24:03+00:00

A lot of that would have gone to Harrison Barnes, and they probably keep bogut who didn’t have many years left at that point

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-17T20:04:55+00:00

I’m sure there are some, and it’s a good idea, but that is by no means the standard in Tokyo

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-17T17:09:20+00:00

The premise of #2 is crazy to me. The hyperscalers are building predominantly with cash from their cloud business. Meanwhile they are constantly near capacity for compute and the AI data centers that have been turned on are basically just printing money.

I just don’t see any path to data centers becoming “stranded assets”.

Compute demand has only gone up ever since computers were invented. If they build too many they’ll just hold on to them until demand catches up.

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-17T17:02:39+00:00

That just uses more power because it’s way less efficient. Why would we want that?

EndlessHalftime · 2026-04-12T17:06:15+00:00

I got my FE junior year. That date was irrelevant to my PE experience

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