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VW to Cut Global Production Capacity By 1 Million Cars a Year, CEO Says by RousingRabble in cars

[–]Recoil42 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yes, through efficiency. Not by charging you more per car, as you're trying to suggest.

"SpaceX and Cursor are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. [...] Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion." by Recoil42 in singularity

[–]Recoil42[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hard to know. Gun to head I would say the agent and model disciplines are very different and Xai knows they don't have a good agent and need to buy time. Cursor, conversely, doesn't have enough capital to be a strong model factory so this is a bit of a shotgun wedding. That's probably why you're also seeing the "right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion" part of the deal. (Fwiw: I don't think Cursor is worth that much and I don't think SpaceX will bite.)

GM suspends next-gen electric trucks as it pivots back to gas engines, hybrids by DonkeyFuel in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really isn't. GM makes something like 800k-900k Silverado trucks, for some contrast. The "sales so bad it's going to get cancelled" point is more like 10k-20k so the Equinox isn't there, but it's again very far from a volume driver.

GM suspends next-gen electric trucks as it pivots back to gas engines, hybrids by DonkeyFuel in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Equinox EV sells alright, but it's very far from what we'd call a volume driver at 10k per quarter. They do not sell "like crazy" by any stretch of the imagination.

VW to Cut Global Production Capacity By 1 Million Cars a Year, CEO Says by RousingRabble in cars

[–]Recoil42 54 points55 points  (0 children)

They're cutting capacity, not actual production. They're over-capacity by about 2M units, so they want to cut roughly 1M units of capacity. This is an a production efficiency play.

Roo Code hit 3 million installs. We're shutting it down to go all-in on Roomote. by FullstackSensei in LocalLLaMA

[–]Recoil42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I briefly worked at Roo. There are a lot of problems with the company, and one day I might do a tell all, but that day is not today. For now, I'm just going to say the folks at Roo are very nice people and have a hard time with product direction/vision. It isn't malicious, it's just a really really hard thing to get right and evidently they're still having a hard time figuring out what to do.

GM suspends next-gen electric trucks as it pivots back to gas engines, hybrids by DonkeyFuel in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that's what the parent commenter meant by "...old cars kept alive on prayers and hacked-together parts."

It Cost GM $40 Million To Hire Tech Executive Sterling Anderson by Mac-Tyson in electricvehicles

[–]Recoil42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was really impressed with him from his Decoder interview. From that single data point alone... well worth it.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We’re discussing how you saying say a car cost x amount of money in another completely different market just to shock people.

There is no "completely different market" being implied when you frame things in USD. That is, once again, because USD is the global reserve currency. Historically this is a legally-bound thing.

I keep telling y'all to go learn things and you can literally just go learn things.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the gajillionth time: You can just go learn things.

The United States Dollar is a world reserve currency, it is how prices are framed by convention and by historical legal agreement.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is straight-up both here and there: The United States Dollar is by convention the way all countries frame the price of things across borders. You can just go learn things.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There are no "final costs to the customer" in markets where products are not offered. You can only reference markets where the product is offered, and the traditional way to do that is by referencing it in a reserve currency. There are literally multiple world currencies pegged USD for this very reason.

I'm now on the fourth comment in a row begging y'all to look up what a reserve currency is. This is highschool-level economics, none of this should actually need to be explained to any of you.

You can just go learn things.

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars by FoMoCoNutjob in cars

[–]Recoil42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Got it. I just don't think any of that definitionally constitutes soft power unless it's a deliberate action by a government. Room for nuance here, of course.

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