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I know many (big) places that are already back-paddling. From token leadership boards (more = better) to now saving on AI cost, because the benefit was less than expected. As if this wasn't obvious. Sigh.

Sure MS, Meta, etc, are still laying off engineers to have money for data centers. But I am 99.9% sure that they will thoroughly regret that move in less than 2 years.

That is the theme. A jury trial is inherently risky. While conceptually a good idea, you are betting the outcome (and your future) on a bunch of folks without any legal training - and who did not manage to get out of jury duty.

And so the prosecution heaps on threats of years and years of prison time, or "take this little plea bargain". They still get their "conviction."

> “Michael Smith exploited super intelligence technology to generate a fraud,” said US Attorney Jamie McDonald.

Super intelligence. Aha. :)

Tangential...

One of the reasons I went with Android over an iPhone. If F-Droid stops working I am done with Android.

Off-topic and somewhat of a rant, but I'd far prefer us all focusing on open standards like HIP, SYCL, OpenCL, etc.

It's unbearable that most LLM inference happens on closed H/W, closed drivers, and closed SDKs.

Will all these data centers really be needed in 5 or 10 years from now?

The technology, compression, etc, for models are getting better and better requiring less and less H/W and power to run the same inference power.

Perhaps our hunger for ever more powerful models will be enough to offset this, but I am not sure.

Never heard of A/I and I have no idea what they are about, but rather than a government communication this statement reads like an angry rant with lots of unhelpful name-calling.

I would expect a government to be professional and just stick to the (proven) facts and avoiding labels; that would also be more convincing. Oh well.

> The United States Postal Service has spent months developing a U.S. Federal Ballot Mail Portal to provide election officials with a simple, secure, and efficient way to share lists of individuals receiving ballots by mail in their respective states.

Why? Your job is to transfer pieces of mail from one place to another. Just continue that. Everything else is manufacturing a problem where there was none.

Edit: Spelling.

> when Firefox does things to push away users like Mozilla buying up an ad-tech company

What would you have them do? Somehow they have to make some money somehow.

Alternatively they have to live purely from donations, which means that people like you and I have to part with of our money. Or they could be purely open source, in which case people like and I donate our time.

I am hanging on! At home I only use Firefox. At work, unfortunately, I need Chrome for a few things that do not work well with Firefox (most Google products), but for everything else I use Firefox.

IMHO, that Firefox can only really stay free if it is supported by donations (i.e. people like us who use it). Anything else will lead to various things that either push people away or make less free - probably both.

After 35 years in the industry in various capacities (from architect, engineer, VP, and different products, small and large companies, ...) I can heartily confirm this.

A company with a good culture is like a good football or soccer team. They work with each other to win, they know each other (enough for the job at least).

I am working at a bigger place now and the AI mandates handed down have been quite unproductive... As if we wouldn't have been able ourselves to figure out how to use the new tools - like we have since the beginning of software.

If management trusts you do to your job and has your back, then you trust the management and will naturally do a better job. Now there are always a few people who are exceptions to this, and part of good culture to identify those and remove them.

I feel so left behind with Linux machine on x86.

It's rather interesting that Apple (and Arm) are blazing the trail while Intel is seemingly left in the dust. Maybe not entirely on raw performance, but definitely on performance per watt.

I think it's more a mix of anxiety, frustration, and exploration.

Exploration: Hey there's some cool new tech, let's see what it can do for me, for us.

Anxiety: What will happen to my craft? Will my skills still be important? Will I have a job in a year? How will I keep up? If we stop or slow hiring junior engineers, what happens when the experienced folks retire?

Frustration: This could be a time of fun and exploration with these new tools at hand. Instead we are measured by weird metrics (tokens, PR times, etc, etc), some of us are laid off, etc. There are $100bns spent on AI data centers.

The last one is the closest to anger, but it's not really the same.