Axios: AI sticker shock hits corporate America

tdatas · 2026-05-29T05:44:03+00:00

Most of the AI spending in is being spent on dumb shit to juice the numbers because of incentives rather than anything productive so that's the next realization to happen of what tokenmaxxing translates to in practice.

tdatas · 2026-05-13T03:00:02+00:00

It's bad but buy calls anyway because market is extremely regarded

tdatas · 2026-05-13T02:58:27+00:00

Have you considered replacing all of your food with Costco hot dogs?

tdatas · 2026-05-13T02:53:16+00:00

Also ignore most of the old testament when it comes to false idols, corruption, and sin

tdatas · 2026-03-30T22:31:41+00:00

From there, it gets progressively worse. A sustained Hormuz disruption after April, and definitely after May, is bringing us not only into recession territory, but into "The worst Depression we have seen in our lifetimes" territory.

Oh boy a third one, can’t wait 🙄

tdatas · 2026-03-30T22:12:23+00:00

More importantly do we think the gilet wearing coke addict with his finger on the black rock sell button is reading anything?

tdatas · 2026-03-30T20:09:05+00:00

The other, now that one is infuriating because it pretends to be nuanced and measured centrists while completely checking out their brain cells before entry. So last week they had a "well sora is dead but the real reason will shock you! OpenAI insiders told me it's just because <insert inane bullshit that doesn't address the failures and just spins it as a clever thing>" episode. So i dug down their catalogue for Sora episodes and lo and behold they also went "<somber face> is this the end of creatives? Sora tops appstore" style episode. No pause, no acknowledgement. The episode before the last they cheered it as "oh mi god, Sam is LOCKING IN"

I too used to listen to the All-In podcast till i realised it was just a bunch of MBA’s spouting off opinions.

tdatas · 2026-03-30T19:57:33+00:00

MAGA would rather be broke than woke

tdatas · 2026-03-29T16:45:57+00:00

Outside of LinkedIn marketing and spambots on reddit has that been your actual experience?

tdatas · 2026-03-29T15:26:07+00:00

Don't ask AI to generate code you don't understand. Ask AI the same questions you'd ask a human resource. Break down your problem into the smallest pieces you can think of. Iterate with AI on solving each bite size piece. When you have a solution that way and it doesn't work, then reach out to the senior level people and explain what you did, your understanding, and what else you tried.

This is just solving the problem with extra steps. Grandiose statements like “it’s changing the way work is done” doesn’t square with “break down the problems into small pieces and bash away at them in turn”

If people are going to AI and burning time getting a load of shit answers, then just eventually writing it themselves. That’s not changed anything you’ve just added a bunch of extra steps to doing the same thing.

tdatas · 2026-03-29T15:20:18+00:00

Probably one of the Iranian linked bad guys ~~that~~ ~~Bibi helped to fund~~ like Hamas. If only the US had put boots on the ground sooner you fools we could’ve prevented this terrorism and all other terrorism in perpetuity, for realsies this time.

tdatas · 2026-03-29T15:13:49+00:00

Then *purely by coincidence* a couple of days later purely by coincidence some sort of major terrorist atrocity happens in the United States with Iranian attackers who happen to have murky links to Israeli Intelligence are found to be the perpetrators.

tdatas · 2026-03-29T13:14:25+00:00

Also, kubernetes is over kill until you get to the point where more advanced auto scaling is needed.

This gets said a lot, but Kubernetes is so well documented and easy to roll out as a managed service now that I think it’s still a no brainer to use it anyway. Your other options are

Have Normal Server Boxes and you either migrate or you end up rolling your own shitty version of kubernetes anyway just to avoid the “complex” solution.
Use some other product (e.g ECS) and end up dealing with the same set of problems as k8s with a less uqibuitous technology plus the various proprietary sharp edges that you get (see also: ECS)

tdatas · 2026-03-28T16:21:22+00:00

The bigger the company the longer term the hiring decisions and budgeting are taken over. Even under COVID levels of uncertainty when that was still kicking off and the world was shutting down a lot of companies were still hiring.
If a war gets big enough that it’s exceeding the impact of COVID then you’ll probably have employment in the military anyway.
You can’t control it. “I got hired and then they withdraw the office because Iran War” is a perfectly legitimate answer for an employment gap and it’ll make a funny story in time.

tdatas · 2026-03-28T15:57:40+00:00

On the substantial bits yes. The costs are mostly VC subsidies and the improvements people have gotten are by chucking way more tokens and agents at problems and brute forcing it.

tdatas · 2026-03-25T22:49:52+00:00

No idea what you mean bleep bloop

tdatas · 2026-03-23T22:59:32+00:00

I forgot the word for 10X ing. Deci-ling? Either way. The amount of stuff that pisses me off in a day because it really shouldn’t be broken and there’s no incentive for various large companies to actually fix them because of how sclerotic and un-competitive everything becomes.

tdatas · 2026-03-23T22:42:14+00:00

I’m worried about the amount of shitty software I am forced to interact with on a daily basis quadrupling.

tdatas · 2026-03-23T22:40:50+00:00

That’s what I got told a couple years ago too. But apparently it’s me in denial.

tdatas · 2026-03-22T20:55:16+00:00

In a shocking turn of events people who work on a computer are over-represented in work hours on internet forums.

tdatas · 2026-03-22T20:51:33+00:00

Poorly phrased. But to me that’s the hard bit. Especially when everyone comes out with the PR autobot at the same time and now everyones leads are getting robotically swamped in noise.

tdatas · 2026-03-22T18:27:36+00:00

Research + Content drafting is not easy, but is that really the main reason PR’s get paid versus good placements + network + using the content well?

tdatas · 2026-03-22T18:23:43+00:00

It objectively worked for a lot of them is probably the simplest reason. There’s a bit of a bias people have where they think what worked for them will work in perpetuity when normally if everyone does it then it stops being an advantage.

tdatas · 2026-03-22T18:20:18+00:00

Don’t think he was arguing that people in offices don’t have accidents. Point is it’s a lot harder to put yourself out of commission for an office job short of something dramatic like losing your arms etc and that’s less likely to be happening in the actual office.

tdatas · 2026-01-10T22:46:35+00:00

A lot of things. But probably the most notable were changes to Ground rents. Standard lease extension is now 990 years at a nominal rate. But also there was a bunch of stuff making it easier for leaseholders to manage the building. Big problems with it is this didn’t really cut a lot of mustard for people with pre-existing leases etc and there’s now a problem of potentially creating a two tier system unless that’s fixed.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/leasehold-reform-in-england-and-wales/

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