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They must be using “consumer” as “plebeian”.

Legacy car makers probably have a longstanding relationship with the media?

How about “Latin Equis” like the beer?

Outpacing THE OFFICIAL inflation stats, anyway.

Could one argue that the top of a car is a ladder?

So what I don’t understand about the whole AI layoffs story is, wouldn’t it be better to just get an insane amount done with the current resources? Like, in theory, absent massive collusion, wouldn’t the incentive structure be basically a prisoners dilemma where companies who use their existing resources to produce more will just easily take over market share from companies who use the opportunity to save on employee cost? From a game theory perspective I don’t get it. Does anyone have an explanation?

Like are the LLMs so expensive to use that they are just converting employee spend to LLM spend? If so, that’s still odd, because the LLM capabilities just represent a massive new investment opportunity, and I think the same game theory structure would still hold unless the companies had minimal cash reserve and minimal lower ROI investment areas to cancel first (and unless something changed recently many companies do have cash reserves and also I haven’t noticed experimental projects getting canceled outright to focus on ramping up the main project into areas previously unreachable).

On the other hand, money got a lot more expensive around the time the layoffs started, and that would force everyone’s hand at once to reduce expenses, and it looks a lot better for various parties if the reason is OMG AI and not a roller coaster monetary policy.

The peak was in September ‘25, so nothing to do with Covid?

LLM or Engrish? Reminds me of “thumb rule”.

Weird, I remember being told to stop talking all the time in school. Apparently those teachers were confused about the true purpose of school!

Regarding the socializing and friend making function, if school didn’t exist would that be a problem? Like you have to send your kid to school to be with other kids only because the schools silo away the kids. If there weren’t any schools there would be kids in the neighborhoods. Do kids have to be at desks or in gym class to socialize with each other? I don’t think so?

I don’t keep track of oracle stock but just glancing at it it looks like there was a rapid spike before the drop, like quite a bit larger than the market overall? And then it dropped back to previous level. So they effectively missed out on some growth over that period but the -50% isn’t as dramatic in context.

Cricket?

Money supply expansion and attempts to suppress its effects are what is killing the west. That and usury, and a lot of dishonest people.

Like if we jack up mortgage rates to 100% housing prices would drop massively right? Okay at some point mortgages weren’t widespread and now they are, therefore a large percent of the increase in housing costs comes from mortgages enabling the bidding up of housing and land by pulling future earnings into the present. The effect on land is zero sum, and while the effect on the structure is positive sum to a degree (it’s a big contributor to housing getting bigger than it used to be and bigger than it needs to be), the overall effect is negative and so we would be vastly better off banning the practice. Of course that will never happen, but I find it curious that it isn’t even discussed.

So in other words, they were asking for it?

What has your code base ended up looking like? Is there a coherent abstraction hierarchy?

I keep checking back on LLMs every couple months and while they are now great for figuring out bugs in a system I don’t know much about (say in my use of a framework I’ve never used before), it’s been super helpful. But whenever I have it write a lot of code, even in a not huge project, it mostly works but it’s like a gum and popsicle stick machine gun and I’m scared of what large org code bases will look like in a few years.