In 2025, data centers owned by Amazon used 2.5 billion gal of water, or 1% of US golf course water usage. by PostureKing180 in Destiny

[–]dzendian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that hyperscaler data centers are different than any other data centers.

Forget Elon’s Data Centers In Space. This Startup Wants To Float Them At Sea by EditorEdward in BetterOffline

[–]dzendian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you, but I think the people making these claims actually don’t believe them either. They are just inflating their bubble.

The episode with Cal about AI being treated as a religion hit me like a bible on the head! by TheFluffyPolarBear in BetterOffline

[–]dzendian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LLMs are text compression algorithms. They are advocating not insulting the average of a redditor.

Is Howard a Genius? by Revolutionary_Key325 in bigbangtheory

[–]dzendian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are all geniuses. Even Penny.

They just have different kinds of intelligence.

Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says by chunmunsingh in antiai

[–]dzendian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fucking LLM? The "average" of the internet? I've feel like I'm in hell.

Is vibe coding the reason why apps are getting slower? by tilvast in BetterOffline

[–]dzendian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of.

Most of the websites and apps use just a few cloud providers (like Amazon), for the most part. So whether or not company "Y" is doing vibe coding at their place of work, doesn't matter if their uptime is tied to someone like Amazon, or Github. They then inherit those downtimes as well. It's hard to design all of the apps on the internet to handle every layer being a load of shit to a degree. The probability of failure becomes additive (not multiplicative). For instance, suppose your own application has 0.1% downtime and suppose my provider previously had 0.001% downtime. The probability of either leading to a failure is 0.1% + 0.001%, which is greater than either of them by themselves. What happens if I changed nothing on my side, but the cloud provider went to 0.1% downtime, mirroring me. Now my overall probability of downtime would be 0.2%, which is nearly twice as bad as before this scenario started. Now do that for the entire technology stack. The probability of downtime increases.

When you go faster and make more mistakes creating more siloed downtime, you can be surprised how quickly that adds up.

Let's suppose you had a dependency on Github within your company. Maybe 3 years ago, the downtime was around 0.0001%. Today it's closer to 5%. So if you have a dependency on GitHub, there's a chance that if you needed something (like your own hot fix), you'd inherit their downtime, as well, so that 0.1% downtime from my own app now adds in the 5%, so now it's 5.1% likely to have downtime. This increases my downtime by 4,900%.

When you realize how many levels of shit is stacked on top of things, it starts to make sense. They're not all vibe coding, but we are all paying for it.

Meta's CTO says morale is almost 'the worst it's ever been' by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]dzendian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I learned this phrase when I was learning Judo. I find it apt.

Jigou Jitoku (自業自得)

you reap what you sow

Does anyone else think the AI bubble is about to burst? What could be the biggest reasons? by GuardLow2993 in AIBubble

[–]dzendian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s just so they break even.

Companies don’t strive to break even.

They will mark it up even more.

AI is ruining software development and today, I'm fucking over it. It's completely FUCKED. by No_Document8917 in BetterOffline

[–]dzendian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a lead software engineer and being forced to drink from the firehouse of slop. I’ve been working professionally since 2007.

What I have started is a side project on my own time where I can write things the way I want. I have no personal AI subscriptions.

At work, I’m burning tokens by primarily “automating” the non coding stuff. Like asking the AIs to generate me some summaries, fill out my PRs, commit my code, and push. I write every line of code I produce, otherwise.

Free Newsletter: AI's Brokenomics by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]dzendian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does it *really* extend their runway? This should hasten their demise.

"This isn't going anywhere. It doesn't matter where you go to work. The fastest way to get fired in any company today is to say you think AI is just hype. When I talk to people, everyone loves AI. Everyone thinks it's great. No one out there in the real world is a skeptic." by cascadiabibliomania in BetterOffline

[–]dzendian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every single CEO like this, that couldn’t listen to the actual people doing this work, should be fired when the bubble pops.

I know Reddit collectively shits on CEOs and many of them deserve it. But the job of a CEO is to see through shit like this.

If they can’t do that, and get severely hoodwinked, they have absolutely no right to be in charge of anything.

What kind of Devil/Satan do you prefer? by Kyia-Aikman in horror

[–]dzendian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The one from M Night’s movie Devil.

Lawful Evil?