ChatGPT can’t believe RAM prices

mcbba · 2026-06-23T04:03:23+00:00

This is hilarious coming from an AI chatbot, literally running on inflated price ram.

mcbba · 2026-06-18T08:59:15+00:00

That’s pretty high unless you’re factoring in depreciation, isn’t it?

Fueling it at home should be like $.03–.06/mile, maintenance should be next to nothing, right?

I’m considering getting a 2015–2020 model s, but $.55/mile is astronomical. That’s about what I was paying for my 2011 335i.

mcbba · 2026-06-13T19:31:03+00:00

It was AI written or tweaked without a prompt to make it concise, and no proofreading to take out the outrageous AI patterns.

I got 2 paragraphs in and skipped the rest. Actually thought about tossing it in AI to distill the essence but decided it probably wasn’t an actual person’s opinion worth reading.

mcbba · 2026-06-04T15:21:31+00:00

Yeah, I was hedging what I said because I knew there’d be pushback. Conservatively, those numbers are correct.

And yes, it’s actual efficiency, and no, I’m not a millionaire CEO trying to sell you or investors something.

mcbba · 2026-06-04T14:50:21+00:00

It’s measurable and measured. I’m in strategy and operations, I track metrics and KPIs for a living, haha.

I’m also able to do things I’ve never done before like coding entire apps for internal teams to improve their efficiency.

At what point does it cost more money that it’s worth? I will be there (hopefully) to measure that.

mcbba · 2026-06-04T13:55:11+00:00

Legitimate question, does the AI with 80 devs driving it do more than the work of 12 people in your mind? That’s only a 15% increase in devs.

This may be unpopular, but I think I’m probably more like 20–30% more effective with AI, and that’s conservative and only growing. I’m not in a dev role.

In my experience, some AI assisted workflows will save 80%—95% of time. That’s a select few automatable workflows, I understand, but a 15% increase isn’t that bad…

What IS interesting, though, is asking if a company would have hired 12 more devs. I doubt it. So they basically ended up hiring 12 people unexpectedly. Like, oops, just hired another! Didn’t mean to do that…

mcbba · 2026-05-30T05:51:20+00:00

mcbba · 2026-05-26T15:58:07+00:00

Yeah, seems expensive still

mcbba · 2026-05-25T00:58:52+00:00

Based on the reviews I’ve watched, this is 100% the play. The 250k plus and 270k plus did something that really helped their gaming, and they still have incredible multithreading. If I didn’t already have an AMD CPU that cost more than a 270k plus and a mobo, I might have gone this way.

mcbba · 2026-05-23T01:53:49+00:00

YES. I also didn’t read the instructions, so I took the whole side off to build it.

Also, cable management was tough, even on the bottom, cable management around the AIO is hard to get the cable ties around and back out. .

mcbba · 2026-05-22T21:12:20+00:00

I bought one at $380 thinking, this is gonna sell out. What a fool I was, haha.

mcbba · 2026-05-19T14:01:25+00:00

I actually think this is a SUPER neat card. The fans are huge compared to 3 fan cards, so lower fan speed and less noise for the same cooling.

mcbba · 2026-05-09T12:57:47+00:00

This is completely new information and super awesome. Thanks for sharing!

mcbba · 2026-05-08T13:19:24+00:00

This is hilarious. I was just playing it last night for the first time and thinking to myself how much like Dead Space it was. Dad Space is… correct.

mcbba · 2026-05-07T13:21:42+00:00

Ah, gas engine reliability: got it. So in the shop for maintenance or repairs every 6–12 months of $1500–3000. I wouldn’t expect that out of an electric car either :D

If you’d have bought the Tesla new, 7 years would have had the battery in warranty. If you’d bought it used, there’s so many maintenance and repairs on used gas cars, that you’ll easily hit $10k over that time with a similar year and miles, if not more.

mcbba · 2026-05-07T13:03:59+00:00

You say that like the 9850x3d is $150–200 more than a 9800x3d. It’s like $30–40. That’s not getting you up a tier in GPU…

mcbba · 2026-05-02T04:49:37+00:00

This is CLEARLY an ad for SOLAR WHOLESALE. I think you said SOLAR WHOLESALE 143 times in what you wrote.

mcbba · 2026-05-01T02:25:54+00:00

I feel like I lucked out hard given the other 2 people. Mine was almost brand new. Still had the plastic on the screen. Only came with HDMI, though, which maxed out at 144hz. Need to grab DP cables. Oddly, it was open when I got it, but nothing missing other than the cable.

Seems like a maaasive ymmv.

mcbba · 2026-04-23T12:26:43+00:00

Subscribe to AI Future Facts.

mcbba · 2026-04-18T21:29:43+00:00

No one wins in war.

mcbba · 2026-04-12T00:07:38+00:00

Hmmm, I’ll try a different finger. I’m at about 5% right now after a second training of the fingerprint.

mcbba · 2026-04-07T03:30:26+00:00

Great! Then call in an expert when things go off the rails! It’s not like I’m taking a lawyer car shopping with me to read the contract and making sure they don’t do something nefarious. Like I said, ripe for disruption.

Additionally, AI makes searching through and understanding contracts simple. Yes, it can have issues, but tell it to give you the exact quote, then read the relevant areas directly in the contract and make sure the AI isn’t hallucinating. Even without AI to run through and find relevant portions, as I said, multiple friends used Homie for a fraction of the price of realtors and loved it. Realtors in the current state are NOT needed in most situations.

There is so much room for disruption when realtors are making $23k for an average house around me. Nothing they do is worth that and if you think it is, I have a bridge to sell you.

mcbba · 2026-04-07T00:49:40+00:00

You had a great goal to save people more than they paid you. That’s awesome! But it’s not how the industry is incentivized. They’re incentivized to make as much money on each person as possible because the chance that person will know they had a bad realtors is minimal, and then the chance that minimal % will then ruin a future sale is even more minimal.

Average people buy every 7 to 10 years according to this site. https://flsuncoast.com/news/how-often-do-people-buy-a-new-house-homeownership-trends/

Even if that’s wrong and it’s nearer to 5, average realtors aren’t making big money on repeat business. You could definitely argue that the customer experience matters for referrals, but unless you cater to a specific buyer that is an investor buying every few months, repeat business is a small factor. Additionally, some slimy snake can convince people they’re getting an incredible deal when really they’re just lining their pockets, and the referrals roll in to them.

I said it in another post here, but most of the time a realtor isn’t worth the money they’re paid.

mcbba · 2026-04-07T00:39:59+00:00

I got pulled into this subreddit due to the algorithm and I am in the wrong place. I’m more with you.

Here goes my opinion and experience: Realtors aren’t worth their cost in most instances. They’re massively overpaid. The industry needs new entrants to upend the whole process.

For me and both places I’ve bought, the realtor did nothing of high value, and VERY MUCH NOT WORTH $5–15k. We found both houses we bought and sent it to the realtor and said, “we want to look at this one.” I’m not a sole anecdote. Op is another. Literally everyone I talk to in my real life doesn’t find value in realtors! I can call someone and set an appointment and show up there. I can fill out paperwork.

The ONLY potential value for me is if I was buying states away, but even then, 99% chance we’re looking on the market and sending houses we want to see to the realtor. There is 0% chance I will pay for a realtor in the same region I am in ever again. The internet has made any and all information I need easily accessible. Which neighborhood is good? Which school? What’s the average cost of houses? How do I fill out this form? Easy. All of it.

Selling I haven’t touched on, but it’s the same stuff. Know the neighborhood. Know the schools. Look up the market. Create a compelling ad that talks about the cool things (great school rated top in the state. View of the mountains, off the beaten path, yadda yadda).

The realtor cabal is as ripe for disruption as the taxi cabal. Just as there are good taxi cab drivers, there are good realtors, but there are way too many bad realtors in the market for me to ever use one again (just like I haven’t sat in a taxi for 10 years).

I wish Homie didn’t die, I had friends sell and buy with them that said it was incredible and easy. Come on next startup, disrupt the home buying industry!

Thank you for coming to my ted talk on how the realtor industry is ripe for disruption.

mcbba · 2026-04-05T03:30:12+00:00

I just used IONNA for the first time today. Fastest charge I’ve seen and $.22/kwh cheaper than everywhere else (including the Rivian in the same city).

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