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a_sewer_raton The AI Boom May Be Sowing Seeds of Another Financial Crisis

It's absurd we're in this position to begin with. Bloomberg taking years to find out what technical people saw months if not years ago.

a_sewer_raton Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

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a_sewer_raton Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data

This is combinatorial chemistry of the 1990s, except more stupid and more venture dollars.

a_sewer_raton Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

Jensen’s misdirection hit well. If you noticed what he said immediately before: he said AI risk is his responsibility, and that the public should enjoy his optimism.

Weirdly paternal and deeply unsettling. The American public is held hostage to fools like this who are brute forcing a failing AI rollout.

a_sewer_raton IBM is on pace for its worst day ever

Worst day, so far* ;-)

a_sewer_raton Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

Someone should tell this to Bungie’s Justin Truman

a_sewer_raton Anthropic says Alibaba used 25k accounts to mine Claude

+1.

Ex-product manager in the SF Bay. Retooling as a product engineer/ product builder because I can build and tinker confidently with LLM assistance, and I want to reduce my dependencies.

So I’m:

* prioritizing local Qwen codegen so I can cancel my OpenAI subscription. * watching CS lectures and learning the fundamentals from the ground up.

Maybe it’s the long-term unemployment talking, but I think the open-model strategy is winning and will continue to win. The recent stories about AI budgets are just the beginning. Wait until executives realize that the advertised “$X.XX per million tokens” is only part of the bill. Context windows, system prompts, conversation history, RAG, tool calls, and orchestration all add up.

Cost-conscious companies will have a strong incentive to hire engineers who can run, customize, and maintain open models rather than paying indefinitely for closed APIs.