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thesdev··on The importance of communities around software
> I'd prefer to concretely define the term before answering this. It's loaded

I guess the main features I'm thinking of when talking of a bubble is 1) demand (especially at the real price) and ultimately return of investment is not there and 2) circular financing is keeping the frenzy ongoing despite that. This by definition is not profitable and sustainable and if that becomes the mainstream belief then nobody would lend the industry money, rendering it bankrupt.

> The AI models arent going away. The tech is still there.

I'm under the impression that AI data centers (which are very different from other data centers) are only good for a handful of years at most, because of the GPUs limited lifetimes, and also are expensive to run (electricity) which makes AI fundamentally different than DotCom as the infrastructure built back then which is fiber cables was very much not like that. And you need AI data centers for both inference and to train new models. Which is why I asked you if you think we could keep using the same models we have right now, in which case we'd need much less compute and get lower maintenance costs to keep this going even after a crash.

thesdev··on The importance of communities around software
Yes very much so, considering my post is an answer to the following

> where the anti-ai crowd ends up in a few years.

I think if LLMs turn out to be unviable in a few years, then anti-AI crowd (hello!) can stand there proud as they did not deskill themselves and kept themselves more independent than most of their peers.

I admit that the above sounds more like a delusion at the moment, but hey one must dream.

thesdev··on The importance of communities around software
Do you believe that we're in an AI bubble? If so what do you think will happen if & when it pops? What happens if Anthropic and OpenAI go under? Will Microsoft and Google continue investing? Or will local/open-weight LLMs be viable alternatives? In the latter case will there be new ones trained, and if so who's gonna build the AI data centers that turned to be unprofitable in absence of a frontier model to distill cheaply? Or do you think we can run current models and point them at the Internet and be done with it?
thesdev··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Lol feeling so dumb rn. How have I not noticed that before and how such an unserious guy is the richest man on earth?
thesdev··on Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
My understanding of the headline is that software used to be horrible long ago, got better for a while and now is getting worse again (but is still better than horrible?).
thesdev··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
I think they were referring to the latter part (downhill ever since) and not the former (win 95 is the best).

How are you running the classic GUI?

thesdev··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
First up: Recall
thesdev··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Thanks. My next question would be what's a typical request. The article defines it as "production-typical request of 5,000 input and 387 output tokens, weighted by a typical day's traffic" for the Kimi K3 model. Not sure how that translates to my scale of the blue button to RIIR.
thesdev··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
That part I'm well aware of, I wanna know how the parent reached the figure 17000. What does count as a request even nowadays? When I tell an agent to make the button blue, how many requests is that? And how about when I tell it to throw together a whole website? Or rewrite the codebase in Rust?
thesdev··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Source?
thesdev··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
Not everyone has the luxury of having that choice. Cough cough AI mandates.
thesdev··on Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat
It is not. Just tried from Sweden and got "Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
thesdev··on Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
Isn't it tiring to keep up with considering the speed of the generated code? And if you want to be careful with the review you lose a significant part of the speed advantage.
thesdev··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
That's the headline feature.
thesdev··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
https://nitter.click still works right as rain, and so do many other Nitter instances.
thesdev··on Grok outage
You didn't get no response so I suppose that means it is.
thesdev··on I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't
So you'd leave the restaurant if it has a QR menu?
thesdev··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Copyright violation is the last thing one could accuse ChatGPT of.
thesdev··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Not sure ignore is the right word here. I think they rather take pride in it.
thesdev··on Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
You can tell it's an Aussie medal because all landmarks are depicted upside-down.
thesdev··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
> working towards the benefit of humanity is not an exclusive right / domain of theirs

That's not their goal or else they wouldn't be burning books. Their goal is making money no matter the cost to the society.

thesdev··on The August 17 outage
> the entitled freeloaders

Now remind me again, who trained a coding-assistant without consent on those "freeloaders" code and sold it for profit?

thesdev··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
It's following the open closed principle.
thesdev··on Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
> persistent kidney disappointment (CKF)

Guess why the acronym doesn't match. It's called chronic kidney disease (CKD). Yeah the acronym is wrong too.

thesdev··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
What a dream! Don't you have investors that need hyping up all the time?
thesdev··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
I'd imagine this is about the presence of the google shopping bar you get above the results, like this: https://imgur.com/a/1drEnrm
thesdev··on Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages
This case is about a subsidiary of them called Pricerunner, which is a price-comparison platform.

https://www.pricerunner.se

thesdev··on Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected
The LLM-tone of that apology is ironic.
thesdev··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
Windows XP was the first OS I ever used and still I switched to the classic UI because it looked just better in my opinion.
thesdev··on Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
> We won't have Generative AI, sorry.

You're taking a stance? In this economy?

This is a bug plus in my book, and it is, besides being Europe-based, the reason I've been donating to Vivaldi for the past 18 months. I signed up for Uruky just last week, but I sense I'll stick around for much longer. Please continue being awesome!

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