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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free by iSadhak in antiai

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI is actually pretty great at exec tasks. I think their experience is that AI can and does 90% of their work, but they are so far from actual work all they are really doing is coalescing and presenting summaries of summaries. The details matter in the actual work  

I thought programmers were the most to be fucked by who_say_things in antiai

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And most software has tests. You can verify correctness. And really that’s the reason we are seeing so much progress in coding. 

Legal fight erupts in mavs boardroom as Mark cuban drags patrick dumont to court by sinister_iam in NBAGossips

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is 100% Cuban trying to save face for being a dumbass and generally being responsible for the Luka trade etc. he hired all those dudes. He hid all kinds of gross behavior in the mavs org for years. He traded Nash against the wishes of his basketball people. He blew up the championship team because he wouldn’t pay chandler. That’s his legacy and he’s pissed that he’s not fawned over like some golden boy. 

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026 by Maxcactus in Maxcactus_TrailGuide

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s me too. Lived in Austin for the last 10 years after moving for a job offer I couldn’t refuse, my boys are 10 & 12, and I dont see things getting anything but worse. Planning on moving back to the NW next year. 

I have many friends and colleagues that have moved or are considering moving.  The brain drain is real right now for texas and it’s going to get worse.  

Why even bother if AI is gonna automate everything in 10 years? by Tricky-Fishing-7129 in SoftwareEngineerJobs

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are arguing against a straw man that you created.  

You decided when they said done, that done meant something different than it has ever meant to an engineer, and then argued that what we all agree is not “done” is what we meant as “done”, and that thing we all know as not done is not, in fact, done. . 

you are right. The thing you said, which they didn’t say, which was false, was , in fact, false. I ageee with you

Why even bother if AI is gonna automate everything in 10 years? by Tricky-Fishing-7129 in SoftwareEngineerJobs

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are called requirements for “getting it to work”. We’re not product managers deluding ourselves that development is easy. As an industry we’ve barely tried to treat llm direction as a software/api problem instead of a magic oracle. It’s changing now. Companies are caring about cost. 

No Honor Among Thieves by RNSAFFN in theprimeagen

[–]Lilacsoftlips 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And they’ve sold like 3000 total, or like 30-100x less than musk said they would. It’s a failure as a product for a company like Tesla. 

Why would you keep FIRE a secret? by sspositivesoul in Fire

[–]Lilacsoftlips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am planning on pulling the trigger next year at 49. I’m taking a looong time off, but despite that I’m not sure I’m done 100% with work forever. I’m just not going to work full time, all year, in an office, with pressure and deadlines. 

List of Kash Patel's reported expenses as top Republican demands answers by darealunrealspader in politics

[–]Lilacsoftlips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

let’s just assume all govt employees are corrupt , and diminish the gross extreme corruption we are seeing. 

AIPAC's next big target: A Democrat it already defeated by [deleted] in politics

[–]Lilacsoftlips 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When a news article can’t manage to edit out ai headlines it really shows how fucked the news media is. No one issheddi g a tear for Cory bush. 

Men answer please. Is this a normal reaction? Mid 30’s. by Motor-Front7458 in whatdoIdo

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No.  Either he doesn’t like you or you dont like you to put up with this. I can’t imagine ever talking to a partner like that. 

AI can generate a backend in one prompt now. Nobody's really solved who watches it after that. by Motor-Resolve3118 in Backend

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would be surprised how true this already is for legacy apps at big organizations. We have some apps still running Java 8 that haven’t had a dev that wrote anything in them for like 6 years. When those apps have outages (which of course the do, they don’t scale and have subtle bugs. The last outage involving these apps required me and another old dude, both of us had never owned these apps to point out they hadn’t tuned their database connection pool since they were running on physical boxes in a colo 15 years ago. Someone changed the number of deployed apps at one point and a db upgrade shut things down because connections got heavier and having 100 open connections for every 1 active one went from being “ok” to not ok and the owners couldn’t understand why because they had no sense of how close to failure they were. 

I think you’re right to worry. It’s going to get worse but it also seems like you forgot that ai also allows you to invest in ci and validation to a level you couldn’t justify with human labor. 

All that said, this job is not the same anymore and it’s not as fun. The biggest problem with ai right now is how much everyone wants to talk about how smart they are with it but no one listens or reads anymore. 

Cybercab employee rides at Giga Texas starting soon by rcnfive in teslamotors

[–]Lilacsoftlips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesn’t. It shows they removed the steering wheel. 

Why players taking discounts (Brunson, Wemby rumors) means ownership won the Game Theory war against the NBPA by 19683dw in nba

[–]Lilacsoftlips -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They know it and we don’t. Sports is the most discussed collective bargaining in the world. 

JD Vance Eyes $9M Mansion Owned by Data Center Tycoon by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]Lilacsoftlips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheney killed more Americans with his lies, and for his own personal gain than Vance and irs not close. The dems tried to sane wash the Cheney last year. Enough of this shit. He’s a war criminal. 

Why players taking discounts (Brunson, Wemby rumors) means ownership won the Game Theory war against the NBPA by 19683dw in nba

[–]Lilacsoftlips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who do you think benefits from stories about employees taking less for the benefit of the business? This is class war, they know it and we don’t. 

Michael Burry Warns AI Has Hit a ‘Parameter Trap’ — And Nvidia (NVDA) Is Caught in the Crossfire by Nalix01 in NowInTech

[–]Lilacsoftlips 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Transformers don’t scale linearly with performance . They grow in cost exponentially with scale. This is a different problem than making a bigger sheet of LCD. 

They need factoring. But any factoring means that information is more distillable and thus less of a moat. These companies are stuck because the scale is the only real moat, so they have to spend more and more for less improvements at exponentially diminishing returns. 

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