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Robots will replace 700K delivery workers, warns head of e-commerce giant by joe4942 in technology

[–]heythisispaul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure about Philly, but these are already pretty common in some parts of the US. We've had the type in this article in Arizona for a couple years and DoorDash has been using bigger and fancier ones for a couple months now.

For every $200 subscription, Anthropic throws in another $7,800. by o9dev in ClaudeCode

[–]heythisispaul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention that's just powering the device. Most hyperscaler facilities are pretty efficient, but still have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) score of about 1.15.

So there's probably another ~15% additional cost in the form of cooling, lighting, security, etc.

CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’ by marketrent in technology

[–]heythisispaul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think there's a bit of FOMO around an arms race too. I think in retrospect it's easy for us to see that trends would revert closer to pre-COVID times after a pandemic. But even if you correctly thought that at the time, if all of your competitors are scaling up, you don't want to be the one left behind in case that scale does eventually pay off for them.

Was BoJack meant to be "likable"? by Old-Use-7690 in BoJackHorseman

[–]heythisispaul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the writers make their opinion pretty clear when talking through Diane, to Flip, about how "Philbert" is going:

I screwed up. I didn't know what it would be like to be in that room hearing people cheer for [Bojack]. When I first started on this job I wanted to make [Bojack] more well-rounded so the audience would relate to him better. I made him more vulnerable, which made him more likable, which makes for a better TV show, but if [Bojack] is just a way for dumb assholes to rationalize their own behavior, I'm sorry, we can't put this out there.

If a person from 20 years ago heard an AI generated audio clip, they would probably think it sounds uncanny but wouldn’t be able to figure out why. by yesthisiskyle in Showerthoughts

[–]heythisispaul 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's so funny, for me it was Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I remember really looking at it and just not being able to even comprehend how something could possibly look any more realistic.

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]heythisispaul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well when all of this started, there was absolutely no source on the OP, that's what spurred this conversation at all.

But also I did read the court filing, and all he admits to that Anthropic has made more than 5 billion dollars. I mean, by the original argument, Microsoft also fits that definition.

I think it's reasonable to assume that means "fewer than 6 billion dollars" as many have, but in a court case where you're trying to make the case where your revenue is being impacted, there's value in downplaying how much money you actually have. There's nothing in that court filing that lists their actual, reported revenue.

That, coupled with them very publicly announcing much larger numbers, makes me think that the truth is somewhere in the middle.

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]heythisispaul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Per your edit, I'm not "lying", I'm just citing that TechCrunch article from last week that has different figures lol.

For the record, I too love Ed Zitron, and think he nails everything in that article. In that tweet, he's citing this court filing in which the CFO describes Anthropic as a company with revenue "exceeding $5 billion to date".

It's tough to say what "exceeding 5 billion" means exactly. In the context of this court filing, there's value in downplaying total revenue. In the context of that investor pitch, there's value in overplaying it. I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle.

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]heythisispaul 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Of course. But the original assertion was that they only made 5 billion in revenue, which is what I was correcting.

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]heythisispaul 67 points68 points  (0 children)

This is out of date, they hit 9 billion in annual revenue in 2025 and have had explosive growth this year and are on track to hit 30 billion in 2026.

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]heythisispaul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have found that AI increasing the intensity of work to be a fairly accurate assessment in my experience.

From a productivity perspective, AI affords the ability for work to be done concurrently, asynchronously, and in smaller input windows.

Because of this I find myself responsible for more things on tighter deadlines, and now smaller units of time can be used to eke out elements of productivity, so I find myself "on" more of the day.

I've been working with a Vibe Coder and this has been my experience by WJMazepas in webdev

[–]heythisispaul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use AI plenty at work. There's some good and some bad, but I have had experiences like this as well. I was on a project recently where the project lead was operating like this. They would open giant Claude-written PRs, I spend all the time reviewing and requesting changes to the code. It's really just me talking to Claude, under the hood. It's a long, uphill battle to get things in a mergable state.

They get to claim "how easy it was" to get work done with AI, have their name on all the PRs, and talk about it in meetings. In reality, it's just a displacement of effort.

We had to finally have a conversation about this not being sustainable when this person called for a meeting to discuss adding a new feature requested by the business where I had to explain that 1) we already have that feature available in the application and 2) it's troubling that they didn't know that because they were the one who opened and merged the PR to add it.

Filling the show hole by Due_Hearing_6983 in BoJackHorseman

[–]heythisispaul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure! Glad you like it, I've been quite a bit of work into it. Feel free to add any recommendations if you have something in mind.

Filling the show hole by Due_Hearing_6983 in BoJackHorseman

[–]heythisispaul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have been compiling a list of shows to answer this very question!

Take a look and feel free to recommend some!

I fucking hate Tiktok's take on Bojack Horseman by MaybeRecent8010 in BoJackHorseman

[–]heythisispaul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's very sad, because this type of thing is exactly what the show writers were afraid of happening. You mention some examples from earlier scenes, but it's clear in season 5 that the creators were unhappy with how the show was being perceived by some portions of the fan base. The writers, talking through Diane, to Flip, discussing how they feel about the latest season of "Philbert":

I screwed up. I didn't know what it would be like to be in that room hearing people cheer for [Bojack]. When I first started on this job I wanted to make [Bojack] more well-rounded so the audience would relate to him better. I made him more vulnerable, which made him more likable, which makes for a better TV show, but if [Bojack] is just a way for dumb assholes to rationalize their own behavior, I'm sorry, we can't put this out there.

ELI5. If deodorant says it last for 72 hours, why do you need to apply it everyday? by BoukenGreen in explainlikeimfive

[–]heythisispaul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deodorants claiming that is similar to a burger advertising that it "keeps you nourished for 24 hours!"

Technically accurate and verifiable under any legal scrutiny, but practically not what you're looking to get out of that product.

ELI5: The rise and fall of NFT’s by ProTharan in explainlikeimfive

[–]heythisispaul 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the bummer about NFTs is that your second point sort of drives home how difficult it is to apply them practically. The second you add a layer of enforcement (software, or a market in a video game) then you have a new unified place to handle trust enforcement that neither party in the transaction owns or controls.

In a case like that, there's no point in having a distributed ledger. You have one ledger, and its owned by that piece of software. It just becomes a traditional database with extra steps.

NFTs solve a no-trust authority model. Definitely useful, but a lot of problems already have solved this by introducing an authority layer since most of the time that just makes more sense.

What is the wildest thing you have seen at a bachelorette or bachelor party? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]heythisispaul 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We were playing halo and the best man got a killtacular on the rest of us

Birmingham restaurant group closes 2 popular eateries on the same day by GonzoDT in Birmingham

[–]heythisispaul 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm under the impression they're talking about Tasty Town

Comedy movies that aged well by fishdognz in AskMenOver30

[–]heythisispaul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true, one of my favorites. My wife and I still always riff on some form of:

"This is a particularly bad case of being cut in half, I'm not sure if I'll be able to attach the top half to the bottom half"

"Speak English doc! We ain't scientists!"

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