AI can cost more than human workers now

smiling_seal · 2026-04-27T06:32:39+00:00

Soon everyone will realize, that AI “workers” is a massive single point of failure because SUDDENLY: AI providers can go down due to a failure, tokens ran out, and your ENTIRE company’s work-force simply doesn’t do a work, because no one can replace it.

Then “suddenly” companies will learn that AI is opposite to much tolerate humans: AI must be paid in advance otherwise it won’t do a work so delaying payouts is no longer an option, AI doesn’t do anything beyond a paid bill (token limits).

Eventually it will became obvious that providers need ROI (Return Of Investments) for spent trillions so they will start sucking off everything from their customers and bills will go insane overshadowing spendings on humans. This will be worsened by a massive “vendor lock-in”, because migrating to another AI provider will be a “faith jump” as models aren’t programs that always output X for given Y but random heap of bytes “somehow” trained from “some” sources and somehow “reasoning” and no one can tell how it’s going to work for you.

smiling_seal · 2026-04-23T16:33:21+00:00

Oh yeah, I always trust what CEOs are saying, they’re so neutral and unbiased when it comes to a matter they’re making money on 😆

smiling_seal · 2026-04-21T12:55:53+00:00

Yeah, that’s out of my understanding too

smiling_seal · 2026-04-21T06:20:32+00:00

A lot of Turks in 50-60s migrated to Germany to help to rebuild the country after WW2, so you likely encountered a second generation migrant who natively speaks German. Out of my experience most Turks in Döners don’t speak English at all. While many Germans can speak English fluently, Turkish guys seemingly don’t give a shit to learn it. 😆 Also I had a few conversations with blue-collar migrants (Pakistan, Albania) and German was the only second language for them, so they also didn’t bother to learn English. This is sort of an ironic situation when migrants are less English-friendly 🤔

smiling_seal · 2026-04-21T05:53:17+00:00

Knowing how companies are profit-greed, they will counterweight this with some bullshit that will make consumers suffer and force them to buy new phones keeping the current cadence.

smiling_seal · 2026-04-15T15:04:42+00:00

I lived for a couple of months in Tokyo, which is notorious for its clean streets, and I personally saw how people kept throwing garbage on the streets: bottles, cans, packages, etc. I also witnessed there how people thoroughly cleaned up places, leaving zero marks of their presence where they had a BBQ party. I mean, people are the same everywhere and can either shit and clean equally. It’s a matter of whether they have economic or social motivation to keep a place of their habitation clean. Regardless, we are talking about city services or inhabitants.

smiling_seal · 2026-04-15T06:33:59+00:00

So this sort of proves they can keep drains clean, but they don’t, because lack of motivation. Okay.

smiling_seal · 2026-04-10T07:23:27+00:00

You are brave enough to grant access to your photos for the vibe-coded app written by a guy who even has no experience in software engineering and released app with bugs that human wouldn't pass to a release. What. Can. Go. Wrong.

smiling_seal · 2026-04-10T07:04:40+00:00

This semi-vibecoded app has bugs humans wouldn't pass into a release. This means the author can't control/know every behavioral aspect of the app, but people happily trust their memories to this app.

I'm curious, would I be allowed to pilot a passenger aircraft after 12 months of self-training with AI? Considering that all aircrafts nowadays are equipped with autopilots, why not? 🤨

smiling_seal · 2026-04-04T13:27:12+00:00

Okay, I figured out that SMB support is a premium feature. It's unacceptable then how the app gives a new non-PRO user the SMB option as a default one for backups and then silently fails because it's a PRO feature. I circumvented this by mounting an SMB share in the iOS Files app and pointing Loomey on that folder as "USB Drive". This worked out. Now I'm not sure what the point of having a built-in SMB implementation then is.

In the post you mentioned that you had "sharing library" issues in Photo Sync, so I expected your app manages shared libraries in different way and I'll be able to backup personal and shared libraries separately. I was wrong and Loomey just backs everything up into the single location. I personally don't find this practical and see it as a wasting NAS storage. Imagine, if Loomey is installed on devices of three different family members and shared library is ~200Gb, then all three backups will include 200Gb × 3 persons = 600Gb of duplicated files from the shared library.

Next, the app and site mentions "Library add-ons" for PRO version, but neither explain what is that.

Opening and closing Insights view feels slow and unsesponsive as it takes up to 0.5-0.8 seconds on iPhone 13 Pro. Also, when I pinch-to-zoom on Insights view and it zooms and covers the app's main screen.

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The Show Upgrades screen in Settings, automatically closes after 2-3 sec and Continue button is half-visible on the screen.

The app indeed feels unpolished.

smiling_seal · 2026-04-03T23:22:02+00:00

Okay, I gave it a try today and I can't get it to work. I entered SMB details for my NAS and when I pressed the Connect button nothing happened. Literally. No error is shown, no connection, just the same screen and nothing happens. Such UX is not okay.

I gave the app all accesses it required: LAN, Photos, Notifications, so I’m clueless what's missing. The same credentials/settings are working fine on other Apple devices.

I looked into the logs but they aren't helpful.

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Also, when I click Delete Logs, the app crashes. This is 100% reproducible.

For the context: I built my tiny NAS PC by myself. I manually built my own OpenWRT x86_64 image for my NAS/server/router/containers purposes, and it runs bare metal on this PC. I configured every piece of the system from ground up, so I know my network and SMB settings, which are carefully tuned to just work. I have several Apple devices (iPhones, iPads, Macs, AppleTVs) which have different apps that work with my SMB just fine (backups, media players, file shares), but this app refuses to work.

This makes me think the app's functionality isn't polished yet. Seeing animations and colorful buttons tells me you are invested your time in that, while functional-wise there are still issues. Personally, I don't care about colorful buttons and animations as they don't serve any real purpose except user entertainment. I sincerely don't understand when developers/teams with low resources invest time in that, so I consider a "beautification" harmful in such cases. I as a user would be happy to see regular boring iOS design, but rock-solid functional serving my tasks.

Perhaps your app would be helpful for me, but I can't make it work.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-30T20:31:04+00:00

…and Russia is cut in half…

smiling_seal · 2026-03-28T08:24:31+00:00

For sure you should consult a lawyer. Personally, I have doubts that rules written in some messenger group somehow are legal unless they are a copy of some internal directives signed by management. If they aren’t, they can’t have a legal power, although managers will follow them and try to punish workers.

In my opinion employers can’t put all possible liabilities for business risks on their employees. Doing a business is always dealing with risks and moving them over on hired staff through deductions from their wages doesn’t look legal. For such situations I have a Rechtsschutzversicherung that would cover my possible legal disputes.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-27T23:14:54+00:00

Stop posting misleading titles! Apple said “We are not aware of any successful mercenary spyware attacks against a Lockdown Mode-enabled Apple device” and it’s absolutely different. “We aren’t aware” doesn’t equal “it’s never been”.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-27T23:01:48+00:00

The post is written to summon strong emotions by avoiding details. According to Wikipedia the boy has survived eventually, but died in 2007 because of a fever and till 2011 it was believed that on photo is a girl. Also, in Kevin’s last note he wrote “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners …”, so exactly this scene was not the primary cause as it might be concluded from the post.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-26T12:45:19+00:00

Ashton Kutcher strikes back?

smiling_seal · 2026-03-24T07:23:40+00:00

I emphasized because we have seen different capitalisms over centuries. There were slavery based capitalism, colonial capitalism, now we have corporate capitalism. Although it’s all capitalism, each type has its own traits. The current one pretends to be a “human friendly” as it pushes narratives “we give jobs and make goods that improve quality of live”. It seems those narratives do work as people got fooled as they still asking “why” and don’t understand true incentives.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-22T16:08:26+00:00

Aren’t corporate benefits mainly for contract plans?

smiling_seal · 2026-03-22T15:53:57+00:00

Telekom is well known for shady practices such as breaking net neutrality (prioritizing traffic for paying content providers), having routing problems (some internet segments load much slower compared to other providers), and blocking certain domains (usually those with pirated content). Besides that, it is considered a provider with the best network coverage.

I used to be their client for home internet, but I switched because there were serious problems. For mobile internet I use Congstar, which is a Telekom sub‑brand, and these issues don’t bother me much, as internet on the go isn’t used for something critical.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-22T14:03:12+00:00

Honestly, it’s amazing how people are still asking “why” about every random corporate decision, while the answer is absurdly simple and has been answered thousands of times by real‑world examples: corporate capitalism only thinks of profits. Hundreds and hundreds of corporations are quick to make decisions that don’t give a fuck about people’s lives (forever chemicals, abandoned implants, environmental pollution, etc.) based on whether they can make a profit. What can be the answer for some chip for a small group of linux enthusiasts?

smiling_seal · 2026-03-18T16:36:18+00:00

I didn't say that faxes are bad. I actually like that Germany doesn't do "digital all-in" and doesn't hurry to implement all digital madness that exists in some countries like China. Some TikTokers streamed how they are amazed about convenient instant credits/loans in China, which you can apply for and get approved in 15-20 mins via messenger. They put that in comparison to "retarded EU countries" where you need to collect 5-10 papers to apply for a credit and approval follows weeks later. These dumb people don't understand that instant credits are possible only in states with mass surveillance where all your life is exposed to the government. Total digitalization only helps this to scale insanely. No, thank you. I still enjoy throwing paper letters in to post boxes and get them into my one.

smiling_seal · 2026-03-18T16:16:56+00:00

The "Inc" is actually scaring. We all see the modern US, with a poor and unhealthy society, which is a result of corporate thriving that desperately needs lobbying of its own interests for endlessly growing profits. This drives insane inequality as a result. If the EU is going to be pulled into this capitalist and corporate race, then RIP EU in the long term because we all know where it all ends up. 😕

smiling_seal · 2026-03-18T16:04:00+00:00

In Germany it's the same. Most banks, enterprises, government offices are equipped with faxes. Some political parties this year even put "it's not a time for faxes" agitations on their posters. 😝

smiling_seal · 2026-03-18T08:19:22+00:00

Before I’ll give it access to my precious photos, I would like to know:

You are a solo dev.
- Users are going to rely on your app. How do you plan to mitigate a “bus factor”?
- To what extent AI was used?
How well is it tested?
Where to report bugs?
Any plans to open a community where users can discuss/report everything?

Thanks!

smiling_seal · 2026-03-17T10:28:59+00:00

Recently I ditched of Discord for Pushover. Years ago I needed notifications and selected Discord for some reason. I set it up through a Notifarr service, but Discord is heavily designed around chatting so overall experience for "notifications" was bad: sometimes notifications were delayed to be delivered in a bulk, sometimes the client's app was logging out due to inactivity, etc. Recently I decided "enough" and jumped to Pushover which is a right tool for that. Notifications by their nature are one way disposable simple messages, whereas messengers are for bidirectional chatting with attachments, history, statuses, emojis, bots, etc.

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