dickersnoodle

For a lot of us it's lived experience - "the platform" can hide bugs that don't emerge until a certain rare set of conditions is present and we get glared at by the business folks who don't understand why we can't just "fix it" when it's buried in someone else's Jenga tower.

>"durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain.

Tell me you don't know anything about neuroscience without telling me you don't know anything about neuroscience.

Worth it to who?

I'm sure it seems "entirely fine" to you but the people being forcibly moved off their land have a very different reaction. I guess it comes down to who gets the gold mine and who gets the shaft...

This isn't a real surprise to anyone who knows how "AI" works.

Why on earth would you need to do that for most things? Not everyone wants to be the next Coreweave. It sounds like you're killing a fly with a cannon to me.

As many commenters have pointed out, a lot of that wealth will disappear into the grubby hands of private-equity-owned assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

I'd have said ghouls. At least vampires are sexy...

Hopefully that EVP feels embarrassed that a big bet was made that not only didn't pay off but left the company in a worse position. Some schadenfreude may be all you can expect, since this is an executive.

You talk about that like it's a problem...

> I never connect my smart TVs to the network, I just plug in my Apple TV and move on.

You're not alone.

"We don't want you here" sounds like a perfectly good reason to me.

Every developer has had this fight with management and most lose.

This is the funniest thing I've read all week.

"much more demand than supply"? Demand from who?