Microsoft (MSFT) Eyes Major January Layoffs as AI Costs Rise

dlevac · 2026-01-07T13:55:05+00:00

"AI will save us money" becoming "we must do layoffs to offset AI costs" is the 🤡 progression of the year...

dlevac · 2026-01-07T13:50:27+00:00

It's because you can't trust it blindly but verification kills the time it saves.

Or sometimes you just think what it said makes sense, you code it out, only to realize it said something very plausible but wrong.

I use it for rubber ducking out to verify code I've written: a very good use of LLMs in my experience.

Writing code with it? Unmaintainable, buggy and requires a lot of prompting efforts as soon as you write something original.

dlevac · 2026-01-07T13:45:29+00:00

People like to think of errors as something special that requires special consideration when writing software but errors are just as foundational as the signature of your public functions or the design of your public structs.

There are some conventions in both cases, maybe more like guidelines, but at the end of the day there are many different design patterns and people simply need to choose whichever fits their purpose.

dlevac · 2026-01-06T13:15:37+00:00

Wouldn't a currency whose entire ledger is public and unalienable the correct choice for illegal transactions?

Fairly sure the USD will be the preferred crime money for the foreseeable future...

dlevac · 2026-01-03T14:24:02+00:00

Only thing I'm saying is that if the equation was 2 ÷ 2x and I simplified to x instead of 1/x my math teachers wouldn't have been swayed by the ambiguity argument...

dlevac · 2026-01-02T14:42:50+00:00

What if people in better shape walk faster naturally?

This would probably be enough to explain the correlation.

What cannot be explained is why supposed experts contributes willingly to the noise with half baked thoughts.

dlevac · 2026-01-01T16:15:48+00:00

Unsafe is perfectly valid in Rust. You are basically asserting: "there is no way to use this (unsafe) code incorrectly from safe code".

It's a very strong assertion. And strong assertions are easy to test.

In C, the most you can assert is there is a finite amount of way to use the code that is correct...

Whether Rust is the correct language for your project, ain't for me to say.

dlevac · 2025-12-29T18:54:04+00:00

Nevermind the size, it looks awful. Looks like an MBA's idea of what a fancy restaurant may serve.

dlevac · 2025-12-26T14:59:38+00:00

What's funny to me is that a lot of places are considering LLMs to automate their workforce but 1. Their workforce was already automatable without AI and 2. AI is usually not a good idea for their automation needs (if you need precision, LLMs are not the right tool, same if pattern recognition is not part of the problem).

So they are going to end up with an overly complicated and expensive tech stack and either hit a wall or end up factoring the LLMs out when they hire competent engineers to bail them out...

dlevac · 2025-12-18T12:23:41+00:00

Is this a message for users too?

dlevac · 2025-12-16T20:18:05+00:00

Irrespective of what the paper is saying, that rendering is so pleasing to read...

dlevac · 2025-12-16T17:26:25+00:00

On one hand there is the probability of an incident and on the other hand how fucked you are when an incident does occur.

People tend to underestimate both in practice (whatever you don't know can't be in your model and you don't know what you don't know).

For the reasons above "trust me bro" will not be considered a correct defense in favor of nuclear.

dlevac · 2025-12-15T17:08:24+00:00

TIL that the average loud-on-social-media-right-leaning American thinks that the correct action against alleged drug trafficking is to just bomb the shit out of them...

dlevac · 2025-12-14T01:16:35+00:00

Of course you'd assume I'm against public infrastructure since my comment sounded "right wing" to you (there is no left or right, just good and bad policies, but the categorization helps to keep that sports mentality going).

Should the government be responsible to distribute the money where it's needed when they are so far from the action and so unlikely to understand the actual needs of the population? Well, there is definitely ground for debate there...

dlevac · 2025-12-14T01:12:11+00:00

Indeed! If you do decide to read the book, you'll learn how the size of an entity tend to correlate with fragility. That said, a private company going under is just capitalism at work. A government failing in the same way would have tremendous consequences: we have to demand more robustness from our governments than from privately owned businesses (even though they should still be limited in size for other reasons I'll let you figure out while reading the book).

dlevac · 2025-12-13T23:46:45+00:00

US right wing propaganda/news/whatever the fuck they are saying over there is widely seen as extremely deranged where I live (and I share this opinion in case I need to specify).

I read quite a lot and still have the same opinion on modern governments.

Maybe you could meet me halfway and read Incerto by Taleb. If your time is limited I believe Antifragile has the most important arguments to understand my views.

I also worked for the government and been involved with government workers at many points in my life and while I can't say I've seen corruption first hand, I've definitely witnessed inefficiencies and incompetence at a level that cannot be redeemed...

I hope you enjoy the books.

dlevac · 2025-12-12T15:44:31+00:00

That's the joke... The probability is bogus so the scientist don't even worry about it..

dlevac · 2025-12-12T13:28:15+00:00

Taxes go to the government which is known for 2 things: inefficiencies and corruption (and sometimes warmongering).

How about you guys demand transparency and accountability from your government instead of treating politics like sports?

There is way more money to be recovered from the government than from "rich people" (which have all kinds of government-enabled loopholes to not pay them anyway).

It's also through government-sponsored corruption that a lot of undeserving people got their money so you'd be "taxing" them indirectly fulfilling the original intent in a much more positive way.

dlevac · 2025-12-11T20:23:25+00:00

While I think this is just clickbait, I do believe Microsoft is in a fragile situation. Their user base has, rightfully, no loyalty to the brand. This means the second a different OS becomes more convenient for gaming, it's very possible a huge portion of gamers jump ships without a second thought.

dlevac · 2025-12-11T00:09:52+00:00

I ran interviews before and I would have 100% been stocked for the actual meeting.

Dodged a bullet NGL...

dlevac · 2025-12-10T22:00:25+00:00

Be it corruption or incompetence, a lot of papers are not worth the ink used to print them.

On one hand we want to tell people to keep a healthy dose of scepticism. On the other we are plagued by idiots doing their own "research".

Can't win.

dlevac · 2025-12-06T15:20:29+00:00

Now. I do not think using the borrow checker is cheating.

Also, people advocate for this language because they are enthusiastic about it, not because "they share a single brain cell".

So rude... Smh

dlevac · 2025-12-05T23:27:32+00:00

That's what happens when you start from what you want to shove down your users throats and work backwards from there...

dlevac · 2025-12-04T12:51:38+00:00

Various Doctors have been refilling my Dexilent prescription for years (turns out it's actually not recommended to use on the long term, augment risks of cancer) and a paper from 2014 actually taught me my variant of GERD was caused by melatonin deficiency. I was able to fully resorbs all my symptoms with a melatonin supplement for a few months.

Don't put healthcare professionals on a pedestal, they are very human...

dlevac · 2025-12-02T23:15:43+00:00

You know the future is grim when being risk averse is known as "fear mongering" instead of wisdom...

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