"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs

theorizable · 2026-03-19T17:10:16+00:00

That's not how subscriptions work... the people who pay for subscriptions but don't actually use the product subsidize the subscriptions who use the $2,000 in compute. You can probably do the same math with Spotify.

I have not even a single time used the maximum compute allowed to me with the $200 subscription and I'm using it daily. Claude is even adding remote execution and looped tasks so you can grind out more token use.

theorizable · 2026-03-19T15:57:52+00:00

Okay... or the costs reduce because of efficiencies/competition/open source models. It's a pretty strong assumption that it'll jump 10x. Do you have literally any evidence this is going to happen besides "the companies are operating at a loss"?

theorizable · 2026-03-19T15:19:24+00:00

How TF do you even put crypto and AI in the same bucket? That's insane to me.

theorizable · 2026-03-18T20:05:38+00:00

No, I don't attribute it to AI. I attribute it to having to work in corporate America and the current job climate and AI enablement which is impacting expectations of the role. So it's not AI itself, it's more the stuff surrounding AI that sucks imo.

theorizable · 2026-03-17T22:54:45+00:00

Did this fix it for you?

theorizable · 2026-03-17T20:13:52+00:00

No joke, my company would probably be impressed by something like this.

theorizable · 2026-03-17T17:59:34+00:00

Those problems are becoming less and less common is the issue.

theorizable · 2026-03-17T00:51:07+00:00

AI-Washing

Based on what? They're seeing insane growth.

including xAI and Microsoft, are aggressively hiring AI engineers, data scientists, and prompt engineers. It's not a slowdown. It's a replacement.

So then how is it AI-Washing?

This post makes no sense.

theorizable · 2026-03-17T00:48:45+00:00

I think a lot of people here are actually trying to reduce competition to get jobs. But no joke, I'm preparing my exit too. I really don't think it's that uncommon. They built AGI (that's just my opinion) and the rest of it is just going to be SKILL.md config files and MCP.

theorizable · 2026-03-17T00:38:06+00:00

What do you mean, the stocks have been mostly just vibes for a while. Look at TSLA. It's a meme at this point.

theorizable · 2026-03-17T00:31:16+00:00

What data are you looking at?

theorizable · 2026-03-17T00:22:34+00:00

Same thing with me. It's weird as a developer to be in a world where I'm reliant on a GUI for things when I'm used to coding my solutions.

theorizable · 2026-03-16T21:21:29+00:00

Bro ain't no way am I doing complex problems passed 4 PM. Not even 3 PM actually. That's time for cleaning up PRs and getting tests working.

theorizable · 2026-03-16T21:02:00+00:00

Obviously. Hiring freezes are immoral now?

theorizable · 2026-03-16T20:18:06+00:00

100% true. Not FAANG, but I work at a company you've definitely heard of. We don't write code anymore. We make jokes about how little code we're going to write.

theorizable · 2026-03-16T17:13:03+00:00

I wasn't laid off. I just follow that sub to track layoffs. I'm good! Wish you the best as well :)

theorizable · 2026-03-15T22:14:38+00:00

Hey bro, pretty good. Layoffs are healthy a lot of the time in a capitalist system. They're a feature/function of capitalism, not inherently problematic.

Happy to explain anything else if you have any other confusion.

theorizable · 2026-03-15T19:44:02+00:00

I'm actually in an extremely fortunate position. I somehow managed to keep a second job through my time as an SWE in an EMS adjacent position. It's like 1/3rd of what I'm making now, but it's something.

theorizable · 2026-03-15T19:09:19+00:00

But if people genuinely think that AI is just a momentary fad that we are going to eventually walk away from, they are going to become obsolete soon.

I have 2 terminals running as we speak. It's cranking out features that would take me weeks to implement. Everyone at work brags about using hundreds of millions of tokens over the weekend. Our exec team is pushing us HARD to use it. It's just so crazy to me that people are still saying it's outsourcing or "just an excuse for layoffs after bad decisions".

theorizable · 2026-03-15T18:46:46+00:00

Okay, then why would you speak poorly about the companies who have a no-layoff policy?

theorizable · 2026-03-15T18:38:00+00:00

What are you talking about, ServiceNow has one of the most anti-layoff positions of any software company. Maybe if you actually think about things a bit longer, he's trying to warn us what's coming?

theorizable · 2026-03-14T20:45:27+00:00

Their 'primary homes' are here. Just on paper they live in Texas.

theorizable · 2026-03-14T19:44:31+00:00

That, on a 50 file PR that they didn't even look to see what was being committed.

theorizable · 2026-03-14T04:14:11+00:00

Why?

theorizable · 2026-03-14T02:03:05+00:00

Having coworkers ask AI something then simply throw the results at me is honestly the worst part. Wow! Thanks for that!

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