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Imagine if we had some kind of really intelligent AI model that we could pose problems like this to. It's obviously not the kind of thing an open weight model running on your local machine could do, but if we had some kind of really large, closed source model running in the cloud that could solve really difficult problems like this, I wonder if there'd be a market for it...

Comment · 16 hours ago

The reality here is even more idiotic: someone criticizing a company for a terrible strategy they aren’t using that wouldn’t work if they did. According to the critic!

Comment · 22 hours ago

HN has lost its fucking mind with fear-driven hatred of the big AI labs. Never mind that virtually every metric points to the same thing: this isn't a bubble, inference is wildly popular, AI company revenue is growing faster than anything in history, on and on and on.

But to hear HN, AI is useless, all the demand is fake, the valuations are based on nothing, it's all just a few companies investing in each other, they're dangerous and reckless, they want to control everything, they want regulatory capture, it's all a marketing stunt, the open weight models are about to catch up, soon everyone will run their own models on their own hardware, on and on.

It's all bullshit. None of it makes any sense, none of it can be backed up by the data, little of it is even internally coherent, and these skeptics and haters have been consistently wrong for the last few years, with apparently zero self-reflection or awareness.

But sure, let's pass a grandstanding resolution that has no teeth to oppose a bailout that no one is asking for, for a collapse that isn't coming. Makes sense.

Comment · 22 hours ago

Yeah, I almost passed out when reading that there was an empty CSS file and that some images lacked descriptions. How will the world survive such horrors? /s

Comment · 1 day ago

AI is never going to implode the way you’re hoping. We’re never going to end up with massive amounts of “dark data centers”.

Comment · 1 day ago

In other words, no true Scotsman…

Comment · 1 day ago

lol, the list of issues that guy found (ironically using AI) is so minuscule, this honestly sounds like a ringing endorsement for Tan’s approach. Claude Code found all those issues, and fifteen minutes of Opus 5.5 would have fixed them all. Put an automated review step on your PRs and you’re good.

To be honest, if this is what you consider to be a form of “brain damage”, I suspect you might be using reasoning here motivated more by your skepticism (fear? hatred?) of AI than by your colleagues truly going off the deep end.

Comment · 1 day ago

Search is not making less money, as the comment you're replying to just pointed out.

Comment · 1 day ago

Search revenue isn't down, both search revenue and overall Google revenue are up, it's just that search is a smaller portion of the total pie because Google Cloud is climbing faster.

Comment · 2 days ago

I am sure there are many who fall in that bucket, but there are also many employees who actually like AI and are enjoying using it. I know many such engineers.

And then there are people like me, who work for ourselves and aren’t being threatened by job loss. I have many friends in this category too.

That said, I’m sure there are also entrepreneurs who would rather not use AI but feel forced to in order to keep up with their competition or customer expectations. I don’t know, I haven’t heard from any of those.

Comment · 2 days ago

This is exactly right.

The vapid knee jerk cynicism and lack of critical thinking on HN of all places has been really disappointing to see over the last few years. It turns out many hackers don’t actually care about what’s possible now with this crazy new tech as much as they’re scared for their own jobs and status, which is very understandable, but they’ve let their fear drive their response, and it shows. Just like the mathematicians.

Turns out really smart people are still just people, just as capable of letting their emotions override their cognition as anyone else.