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You can't have Claude/Grok/Codex without cutting down trees, burning gas or using rivers for cooling down datacenters.

Pick your poison, basically.

If everyone == developers, sure there's people using it. Are the trillions in investment and debt, social and environmental impact, fear inducing marketing worth it for a handful of startup developers?

Don't forget that large enterprise developers rarely see cutting edge technology in their workplaces.

Because hype. That's all that is to it.

Investors putting money in something doesn't translate to demand, success, or zeitgeist. See dotcom bubble.

How about no? The benefits are not really benefits, are they really? Can't seem to find a benefit out of it, so, no. I don't need to accept any of it.

A friend of mine who's all in on Musk told me a few months ago that Tesla's business hasn't been cars for a while. It's all Optimus and Cybertaxi, where demand will be infinite and we'll all be paid by our governments to stop working since Optimus will do everything and Cybertaxi will take us anywhere. Not today, of course, but in the future. Future being explained in the exact same elastic terms as Musk does.

The fact that he was serious and thinks that Musk is the only tech CEO not in this for his own benefit and enrichment is what makes me believe that this is more of a cult than anything else.

As a contractor sysadmin at the time, managing both Exchange and Notes/Domino, I loved Notes for the simplicity of dealing with backups, to tape and over the VPN.

You mark the database as read only, copy the .nsf file over, unmark the database as read only, done. Brightstor had a plugin for Notes that did that automatically and could do incremental backups with ease.

Move to Exchange and it's horrible single file mail storage solution which was inconceivable when hard drives weren't that big. 10,000 users? It's 100MB of mail so it can fit nicely in a single storage volume. Backups? Well, only at night because you have to unmount the file from Exchange, copy it over, and mount it again, which took a good couple of hours.

I miss Notes "simplicity".

I don't buy the argument that it was an accident or mistake.

If you decide to let things run haywire, then unexpected outcomes will definitely happen.

We do not need more datacenters as well.

As you don't _need_ a datacenter as well