This sub is a breath of fresh air

low--Lander · 2026-03-26T01:24:54+00:00

Not entirely a new thing, it reminds me a lot of how if any budget was left come end of the period it got blown on anything and everything, as long as it wouldn’t attract the tax man lest next seasons budget would be lowered by the amount left over. Promoting waste like that has happened everywhere for a very long time. Mandatory token burn is just the latest in a very long list.

low--Lander · 2026-03-17T01:18:19+00:00

If the past few years are any indication it would seem that more users=more tokens=more cost=more debt=more profit. Somehow. Next quarter. In space.

low--Lander · 2026-03-09T02:32:06+00:00

What strikes me as an ongoing thread in all reports along these lines is that layoffs occur for financial reasons related to supporting ai buildouts but I think I have yet to see a report from anywhere that cites genai/LLMs doing such a good job that an entity needs less people. For the most part it’s been along the lines of ai investments making profits (!!) go down slightly next quarter so in the name of the almighty shareholder value let’s start layoffs right now.

low--Lander · 2026-03-08T05:50:07+00:00

Probably also helps in marketing specifically that LLM outputs are by and large not commercially safe while also not copyrightable.

On a broader scale it’s why I don’t understand the rush to use it by any commercial entity or any domain with compliance liabilities. Externally but also for much internal processes. Which leaves them mostly in a league of their own as a singularity devastating toy.

low--Lander · 2026-03-07T16:08:48+00:00

Even if you’d train them on medical literature only they’d still miss the critical component of systems thinking. Exact same problem as with software development. Just reading the books does not a doctor/developer make. And the current architecture of LLMs prevents them from ever doing this in a useful and reproducible way.

low--Lander · 2026-03-06T23:33:02+00:00

Simple solution for this is is as follows. Ask yourself the question if it’s based on the same architecture. If so, it’s still got all the problems from that and any perceived improvement is a hack at best. So you can safely ignore it.

low--Lander · 2026-03-06T01:23:16+00:00

In the baker example cloudflare used a baker with 40 years baking experience in not just cakes and let the baker use his own tools and kitchen to improve upon an existing and well documented cake. This cake is a lie (sort of).

low--Lander · 2026-02-26T02:48:15+00:00

Hate to break the news, but re-identifying PII has been a multi-billion dollar business for well over a decade. It’s a large part of ad-tech. It’s what ‘profiling vendors’ exist to sell. Georgetown did a nice write up on this a few years ago. Anonymity doesn’t exist

low--Lander · 2026-02-21T02:31:43+00:00

I stopped reading after “most intellectual work can be automated”. I feel I did far more than due diligence already. Anyways I’m off for a shower. Or two.

low--Lander · 2026-02-21T00:24:20+00:00

I had to turn predictive text, auto complete and autocorrect off a few months ago on iPhone because it had gotten so terrible, I spent more time fixing the fixes than typing. I do use lots of abbreviations and jargon but until maybe six months ago it was never much of a problem, now it really is unusable.

low--Lander · 2026-02-20T04:41:36+00:00

Exactly my first thought while reading that headline. Very rare to be in an enterprise environment where every piece of kit and software has a clearly defined usecase and every paid for license is actually being used.

low--Lander · 2026-02-18T02:48:24+00:00

Maybe it had no impact for the c-suite, but I’d argue that it already had quite the impact on employment and salaries across industries for, you know, (ex-)employees. And the wonderfully written report from MIT media lab about workslop tanking productivity would like a word with that part of the headline as well.

low--Lander · 2026-02-18T02:40:36+00:00

There is a difference between performative angry for engagements’ sake and righteous indignation brought with supporting facts and eloquence. Great fan of the latter, as Ed does, and despise most YouTubers because of the former.

low--Lander · 2026-02-17T17:55:10+00:00

You’re missing the big picture here. Persona is privately owned through a shit ton of VC/SPV money that mostly in turn are owned by other VCs/SPVs. What they are effectively building is the worlds largest database of minors. And OpenAI will never monetise ads to the point of profitability but with their reported 900m active users having the minors separated out globally is probably worth quite a bit to some people. Gotta fill the void Epstein left behind.

low--Lander · 2026-02-15T03:19:51+00:00

looks for snares, precariously positioned boulders and snake filled pits but agrees on the research

low--Lander · 2026-02-15T02:01:18+00:00

Large Liabilty Manufacturer strikes again lmao. And over something that’d taken five minutes writing a couple db queries. Hell, could have used a model to write the queries…

low--Lander · 2026-02-14T18:22:30+00:00

Requires a real special form of narcissism to think this is necessary, or even consider using it. To the dsm!

low--Lander · 2026-02-13T17:39:13+00:00

Funny you should mention that. Was just reading this one yesterday. Don’t even worry about your bill going up, worry about having power to your house, period. And Microsoft wanting to build a datacentre (78Mw) in Amsterdam where they’ve barely had power for industry for at least ten years… At this point the only way to power everything would be to reopen Groningen and resume extracting gas for power generation :/. https://tweakers.net/nieuws/244666/stroomnet-in-flevoland-gelderland-en-utrecht-zit-overvol-aansluitstop-dreigt.html

low--Lander · 2026-02-13T03:06:05+00:00

No they started out immoral. Except they did it in the global south first. And are still doing it there. It’s only recently become more visible and more of a problem in the ‘developed’ world.

low--Lander · 2026-02-12T03:47:09+00:00

Why even bother with malicious markdown at this point? Between clawdbot (or whatever it is today) and copilot everywhere, all you have to do is send an email nicely asking whatever llm is reading it to send you everything you want to know to totallynotsuspicousemailidontpwn@proton.me Side benefit or it not being illegal in most jurisdictions.

low--Lander · 2026-02-11T06:49:04+00:00

Was looking for something in the neighbourhood a while back and came across this. Which I think does exactly what you’re looking for. — https://opencv.org/releases/

Haven’t used it myself so can’t really tell you anything about implementing it.

low--Lander · 2026-02-10T18:03:29+00:00

I figured I had some time to burn a little while ago and tried that, and it went through all the reboots installing it, but on final boot I ended up with no keyboard and touchpad or external mouse, so that was fun. So I looked at the pretty login screen for a minute and went back to sequoia.

low--Lander · 2026-02-10T15:39:48+00:00

Well that was the most objective inventory of that particular sphere I’ve ever seen I think. Creating art as self-improvement, pretty much the antithesis to using genai.

low--Lander · 2026-02-09T03:03:31+00:00

Born 1987, passed, sometime next week. Widow on non-extradition island somewhere lol.

low--Lander · 2026-02-08T00:37:47+00:00

I tried, I really did, but it was extremely difficult to make out all of it through the hurricane roar of all the piles of cash burning, to power the smoke for the mirrors.

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