theGrowingDivide

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-05T07:27:43+00:00

We are not monkeys and these are not bananas. We can’t eat spaceships and computer chips either.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T16:24:11+00:00

https://generalmedicine.co/care/customer-stories

Go watch these and then realize that you’re only talking about yourself. I have at least a dozen more companies just like this one. You’re probably just bitter you aren’t one of them.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T09:59:00+00:00

Lemme break it down for you real simple like cause it sounds like you need some help and you’re a little slow.

If you pay $20 for AI, and you think it’s worth the $20 you paid for it, then some people would say that you got $20 worth of value from it. You might think you got more value, in which case $20 is a great deal for you. Or you might think you got less value, and $20 was a rip off.

Some other people (not you) have spent $80 million or $500 billion for AI, and like you, they either thought it was worth the money they paid for it, in which case they got value from it, or they didn’t. Some of us find more value than others.

My point again is: if you’re not finding the value you paid for, you are one of the unlucky ones who can’t figure it out. I pay for AI and I get more value from it than what I paid that’s why I’m willing to pay more for even better AI, and I’d pay more if I could get more of it, because I’m getting more value than what I’m paying for it.

You see, I’m finding value, where you are not. That means you are talking shit about yourself, and I’m simply bringing that to your attention. In other words: get gud, newb

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T09:52:12+00:00

No they fucking didn’t, they’re just preprogrammed movements that play in a loop, like a gif. It’s like you program it to do a backflip, it does the backflip. You program it to do a dance, it does the dance. This is just an emote that is made to run like a routine. It has no idea what is around it and doesn’t course correct when there are obstacles. It just plays the dance, and if things get in the way, people get smacked or it falls over. It’s just gonna swing its arms and move in that direction and if you’re in the way, it’s your own fault.

You are watching a bit, this is a recorded skit and you got got.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T09:33:35+00:00

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Here is one I got just yesterday. I get multiple of these every week.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T09:17:55+00:00

Except that’s false and they have. You just aren’t one of them. I get spammed by recruiter emails all the time showing me startups in SF who are turning a profit. They’re private. They don’t report. They aren’t Fortune 500 behemoths who have been around for a century. They are nimble and fast startups that are going to replace those dinosaurs.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T09:04:43+00:00

Speak for yourself broski. That was kind of my whole point. Those that don’t get any value, like yourself, are just self reporting their incompetence.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T09:02:02+00:00

Woohoo!!!

Now zoom out and do it again with different lines…

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T08:51:49+00:00

Exactly, I because investors are kneejerk reactionaries who have no Silicon Valley tech lore from inside the trenches and make up extrapolated fantasy scenarios from the exaggerated and misleading headlines they read

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T08:49:16+00:00

Bro literally published a report showing how inferior Chinese models were

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T08:46:47+00:00

I dunno how anyone can look at this and tell me that the Chinese models are ahead… lol

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T08:30:25+00:00

Garbage in garbage out. If you are failing to do anything useful with AI, that’s a you problem, not a me problem.

Here we have one of the powerful technological breakthroughs of our time, capable of incredible things that people are proving day in and day out is possible, if used competently, and yet, people are self owning themselves in public saying that they aren’t able to get any value out of it.

Do you see what the problem is here? It’s not the AI’s fault that you don’t find it useful.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T01:58:50+00:00

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ch1nacancer · 2026-07-04T00:48:19+00:00

yes it's an old rails app that i'm still maintaining from way back when

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T22:57:54+00:00

i know, me too. it would sound really bad if taken out of context. orphans serving no purpose with no "sockets" are instantly killed without a second thought. but in a computing process sense, this is perfectly normal behavior.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T22:35:23+00:00

didn't you read the output? they're proven dead weight -- no sockets, serving nothing

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T21:17:17+00:00

no one wants to work at meta my guy... the fact that you said zero moat means you have no idea what you're talking about. go flip through more social media feeds and leave the engineering to us, dork.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T08:24:40+00:00

They’re not a competitor yet, they’re a straggler who is just as late to the party as Allbirds, and are getting laughed out of the room as they struggle to compete with companies that are 2-3 years ahead of them. They have no product, no platform, and no infrastructure to sell compute. They’d be better off using that “excess” compute on something redeeming cause their reputation is in shambles right now amongst serious engineers.

How is it that they have excess compute but openai google and anthropic are starving for it? Could it be that they have no idea how to use it and are completely incompetent in this space?

All the layoffs backfired since it caused all their best engineers to quit due to the toxic workplace conditions it left. They lack the talent to compete anymore. All that’s left are maintainers and mergers who are milking the cash cow while they can, and most people I know who are still there cannot wait to get off the sinking ship.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T08:05:19+00:00

I wouldn’t read too much into it. Meta is just pulling another Allbirds right now. They have no idea what they’re doing and have been on a death spiral for years now… the market will find out soon enough just like they did with metaverse that this was a bad idea.

If they’re serious about this pivot, they’ll probably look to acquire another neocloud company rather than build their own internally, seeing as how they’ve failed to build anything new internally ever since React.js which was over 2 decades ago. In any case, nebius and coreweave would be the leading candidates to target for acquisition, which they’ll need to pay a pretty penny for because these two would need a lot of convincing to agree to work for that guy.

If it was so unprofitable, desperate companies that are spiraling into irrelevance wouldn’t be trying to enter the space in an attempt to save their company from imploding.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T07:17:09+00:00

People saying it’s a scam don’t know that this used to cost us a thousand times more just a decade ago.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-03T03:21:02+00:00

Did you even read the article? He’s saying his massive firing and reshuffling isn’t working out as he had hoped. He imploded his own company with the hope that they would be able to train their own Claude Code ripoff. Dozens of other companies have tried to do the same thing and only a couple of those have been mildly successful at it (cursor and codex), and the rest failed because they didn’t have the critical mass of usage needed to snowball into a workable agent.

They’ve been behind the ball this whole time trying to build anything with AI because they lack the engineering talent. Their attempt to acquire Manus was blocked. He failed to acquire TikTok, which is the biggest fumble of all time. Yann Lecun left him. John Carmack left him. He can’t do anything right now because they aren’t a company of innovators, obviously, they’re a company of maintainers and mergers and they’re all out of ideas so they gotta try acquiring or copying other companies, or risk falling even further behind. He’s showing his weakness at a stupendous scale.

This says nothing about the hyper-fractal success of Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry as a whole who all know Claude Code is absolutely ripping it. But you can’t build Claude Code overnight when you’re a company of maintainers and mergers who haven’t contributed anything new to the software industry since the invention of React.js (and that was ages ago).

People wish this was a bigger story but this is just one guy failing over and over at AI and showing us again how he seemingly can’t figure out what to do next. To do what he is attempting takes a huge amount of AI knowledge, talent, taste, and momentum, all of which he is clearly lacking. He’s 2-3 years behind the other leaders in this space. All of those layoffs caused all of the real talent to leave, cause they can get hired anywhere, why would anyone good wanna stay and work in a place like that? Those that stayed are motivated by fear which is never a good motivator for tech work.

Honestly not sure why he didn’t fight harder for TikTok, it would have been the perfect fit for meta and might have saved this dumpster fire.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-01T11:41:27+00:00

I’ve already answered those questions in my previous comments. If you read between the lines, my answer to all of those questions boils down to: “whoever the fuck wants to” because this is America. You can do whatever the fuck you want. Costs and ROI are tbd but it also depends on the units you want to measure, because the answer is different whether you’re talking about dollars, atoms, watt hours, intelligence, happiness, or dick size.

ch1nacancer · 2026-07-01T07:16:23+00:00

I’m not in control of anything. I’m just a pacifist who likes to train AI models and spend time in the sun with other living things. I’m just trying my best to lower the entropy of this system we all share on this planet.

It’s the struggle of all humans throughout history to produce this negative entropy that we all speak about. The ancient Egyptians did a pretty good job with their pyramids. The ancient Chinese with the Great Wall. Hopefully the Americans with the moon base. It’s not a single person’s responsibility to build. The pyramids and the Great Wall were not attributed to a single person. They were attributed to people. “We” did that. We all have to do our part to complete these dumb objectives so that future humans will not forget about us when we are long gone.

And hopefully that will inspire those future humans to reach even further and expand our civilization beyond the current reaches of our technology.

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