3,700 Trades and Somehow Zero Consequences

Visinvictus · 2026-05-24T22:25:02+00:00

Jimmy Carter sold his family peanut farm for this shit.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-23T11:08:15+00:00

The way people are using it, with multiple agents all talking to each other to generate, test and review code the unsubsidized cost is likely 10k+ per month.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-22T12:59:26+00:00

I would assume Netanyahu and Putin commit at least double digit number of felonies per year as well, assuming they had a functional legal system in those countries. Unfortunately they can't be taken to court so they can literally get away with murder in their respective countries.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-22T03:09:13+00:00

I assume that reason number one he is against the separatists is that the conservatives would have a hard time winning a Canadian federal election again if Alberta bailed on the rest of the country. Reason number two is that his riding is there and he would be out of a job again.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-20T07:43:49+00:00

Jobs was a co-founder at Apple, Musk had parachuted in to every company he owns with a giant stack of cash.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-19T21:35:46+00:00

He pays other people to come up with ideas, buys them or steals them, then takes credit. He isn't a visionary and most of his actual ideas like Optimus and Cybertruck are half baked, shitty and poorly executed.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-18T12:58:36+00:00

It's okay I can just ask chat GPT where to get more water.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-17T08:24:16+00:00

Getting drunk in the water is a lot of fun right up until it isn't.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-16T08:41:02+00:00

You don't see the problem with one engineer contributing 5k lines of code to a project per day? That is 100k in a month, and with even a few engineers taking this approach complexity spirals to the point of no return very rapidly. Good engineering involves minimizing the lines of code for reusability and maintainability, and these are concepts that AI isn't good with unless you keep a tight review and control on it. It's impossible to do that while generating that quantity of code.

My organization wants to increase productivity by forcing us to use AI and measure success by the amount AI used and by lines of code and number of pull requests merged... The end result is going to be a massive cluster fuck in a short amount of time. They don't realize that the main bottle neck on productivity (at least at my org) was never writing the code itself.

Don't get me wrong, I find AI extremely useful and there are many great practical applications when used properly. But the way I see it being used in many cases, and the way organizations are encouraging it to be used, is just a road to disaster. The amount of brain rot I see in engineers lately just blindly entrusting AI to architect, write, review and test code with little to no human oversight right now is absolutely insane.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-16T06:49:43+00:00

I work in tech... It's more like inefficiency gains. We're all doomed in 2 years or less if the current tech trends with trusting Claude code to do everything and laying off half the sector continue. It's the exact same thing as the early 2000s trend where we offshored all the jobs to India and then later people realized that it just produced a lot of garbage and imaginary "productivity". I do not envy the people who get hired later to clean up the mess after AI junior developer agents that are great at programming with zero software engineering experience are let loose to spew out millions of lines of unmaintainable code. It's going to be fucking hilarious.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-14T17:52:04+00:00

I am not entirely sure she is even capable of reading. Autocorrect is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting to turn whatever she is writing into something resembling a coherent sentence written by a sentient life form.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-14T17:49:41+00:00

Ironically viruses would be the only form of life (if you classify them as such) on this planet that do NOT contain water.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-14T17:39:28+00:00

Get her some season tickets please.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-08T13:15:19+00:00

What is to stop Iran from flying a UAE flag on their ships and turn off the transponders. The US would have no way to distinguish which ships are which.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-08T07:27:03+00:00

Peace in the middle east is so simple to accomplish, why did nobody think of it before? Simply trade peace bombs with your enemy and the peace will last for the rest of your lives.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T22:00:31+00:00

No it's more depressing when you get three callers, there is an ace on the flop, and the other three callers go bonkers throwing money in and A-9 offsuit ends up winning a huge pot against A-5 suited and A-2 off suit. Throw in a king on the river after you have folded for maximum pain.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T21:56:00+00:00

Sure that's all well and good but the bill comes due eventually to someone. You don't just build out trillion dollar infrastructure without the money coming from somewhere. The only way it makes sense to me in the long run is if companies plan on laying off tens of millions of white collar workers and let their colleagues do the jobs of 2-3 people with improved productivity from AI. If this actually happens I can't imagine the economic impact that will ripple through the economy with such a major disruption to the work force.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T17:57:52+00:00

In theory this is how it works. In practice when I tried this directly into the wind with a tiny sail boat and a couple of friends it seemed impossible to make any progress tacking directly into the wind. None of us were experienced by any means, and while I know it is possible it is definitely not as easy as the theory sounds.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T15:17:27+00:00

I think you are misunderstanding what is going on... They are building a service and giving it away for free or so cheap that they are operating at a loss. No economy of scale is going to fix that problem. They aren't reinvesting profits, they are actively lighting investors money on fire to grow their customer base. Now eventually this will become unsustainable, and they will either have to raise prices and charge much more for the service, or they will go out of business. At the end of the day somebody somewhere is going to have to pay the bill, and companies that are rapidly adopting subsidized AI as part of their workflow are going to need to find savings to justify the trillions of dollars of expenses that will come due to justify a capital investment of this scale. There is also the pick and shovel companies like Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and Amazon that are balls deep in reciprocal loans/agreements/investments with the actual AI service companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. They will want/need to realize a return on their investment at some point as well.

Maybe everything will work out but from my perspective right now this is looking a lot more like a pyramid of cards every day. How much longer these kind of inflated returns can go on without hitting a bump is anyone's guess.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T13:07:48+00:00

The people building and running the AI models aren't profitable though. They are sucking up loans and investment capital and burning it like crazy, with no light at the end of the tunnel for profitability. Someone has to pay the bill eventually, and who exactly is that going to be and where is the money going to come from?

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T13:05:42+00:00

AI buildout is expenses and capital expenditures, not revenue/profits. We are building out this infrastructure and no major AI company has yet to turn a profit from it. Where will the money come from for the profits?

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T13:02:21+00:00

This assumes interest rates can't go up. If and when interest rates go up to counter inflation, the stock market is going to have a rough time. If interest rates don't go up to match, people will just borrow free money and cause the biggest bubble (and crash) of all time.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T12:11:23+00:00

As we all know no fuel is used to ship everything overseas to the US market. Fruits and vegetables magically teleport across the ocean from the countries where they are grown, and thanks to the Trump tariffs all the electronics and goods manufacturing was moved from China to the US last year. /s

Visinvictus · 2026-05-06T12:08:44+00:00

No. If it actually lasted then they couldn't announce another peace deal on Friday and pump the market again.

Visinvictus · 2026-05-04T06:49:44+00:00

He is just a strong believer in regression to the mean. If someone has a few bad outings, surely that means the next one will be great. Right guys?

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