jeffwask

It's a pretty monumental effort to transport, store, refurbish and show these massive computers. There aren't a lot of organizations even willing to put in the effort which is why most of this stuff gets landfilled or sent to the recycler. I would assume they asked around and no one else was interested.

I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.

LOL, reminds me of when we had bonuses tied to test coverage at a company and one enterprising dev wrote a single test that flagged as 100% coverage.

The thing that struck me most was that for 25 of 27 years, they have relied entirely on machines and computers to manage the condition which means every hard-earned lesson you have experienced they did not and the author likely has very little person knowledge and experience on how to do anything off the pump.

It's the AI argument in a nutshell. We are handing things off to machines and losing the knowledge to do it ourselves.

Imagine if this were a systemic catastrophic failure, that lasted months... how many people would perish just because they weren't taught or never learned how to manage without the machine.

The Mad Men AI upscale was such trash. You could see cameras, crew, equipment, etc. total mess that showed no care for the material.

Go fast; Break things

I think I've lived through three separate RAM boom cycles at this point. Two for sure...

People have reported a decrease in ROI from spending on Google ads already when they no longer control all the eyes and where you rank in what those eyes see when they search, that ROI will drop even more. People will stop paying for Google ads when the ROI is higher on other platforms.

Couple that with the fact that a lot of folks have moved their search to GPT or Claude once those platforms start taking in ad money... that budget will come from somewhere and that's likely existing Google ad buy dollars shifting.

They only dominate Ads because they dominate search if everyone leaves Search the ad business grinds to a halt as well. These are the ying and yang of Google.

> it's not Google Search

...and it really hasn't been for a good number of years now. I left a while ago when results were all SEO copy pasta blogs this is just a final nail in the coffin.

My first tech job coincided with the first season of South Park.

These articles always make me think of the South Park BP Oil episode. "We're sorry. So sorry..."

We had one do this in San Antonio too. Right across the well labeled low water crossing and whoosh.

Woz is one of the good one.