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The irony being that the majority of the American population doesn’t work out or cook

What in the world are you working on?

I don’t think there’s a single person out there that will ‘support’ AI

Maybe it’s just your phrasing but people will only pay for what works, no one is loony enough to support a trillion dollar industry out of the kindness of their heart or spirit of innovation

OK sure go blame them. Now what do you have?

Don’t blame regular people when billions were spent on lies, disinformation campaigns and rug pulls. We are being systematically manipulated.

I know plenty of good honest people who simply don’t know what’s going on and cannot navigate today’s political landscape

I dont anyone who doesn’t know that the Biden inflation is a result from COVID money printing.

The politics in this country have been intentionally broken going back to Clinton and Obama. It is impossible to make meaningful change anymore.

Add in the propaganda convincing 2/5th of the country to consistently vote against their own interests and fundamentally misunderstand core issues, and it is difficult to see what can be done in the next 10 years.

The USA has had a hostile takeover by oligarchs. We are a country who serves only corporations and those who own them. Regular people have been almost completely removed from the process

It has been tried many times. Good luck to pgdog, but there’s a reason these projects don’t stick.

Multi master, from even a conceptual perspective, is incredibly complicated. Databases, transactions, consistency, parallelism are all very complicated.

It’s something that always seems promising at the start but as soon as maintenance and long term improvements enter the picture(ie integrating new Postgres versions), the complexity becomes too much.

I really don’t think you’re considering all the edge cases in such a scenario.

Most devs have problems writing decent queries (in some situations), now you want to introduce writing the query execution plan into the mix ?

We are basically dealing with the fallout of the 2008 GFC bailout to this day.

The fiat economic system is irreparably broken, and we are circling the drain. Another bailout is _probably_ inevitable. But the cycle sure as hell isnt resetting and we are speeding towards something... what it is is unclear though, and when is also unclear.

The part people cant wrap around is the scale of it and the time it takes to go through the super cycle. Theoretically, it all started with the Dot com bubble, which indirectly cause the housing bubble, which caused the GFC. Which caused whatever happened in 2019, which caused QE in 2022 under the guise of COVID, which is causing whatever the hell is happening now.

Capitalism has become uncorked, and money is irreversibly flowing to the top at an increasing rate. The logical next stage is that like 75% of the world's population is literally not even part of any economy. And that doesnt really make any sense

I don’t think that’s it. I think the only thing that motivates billionaire is just to have more than the next guy.

The only thing that motivates Bezos is that Elon Musk’s has more and conversely Elon Musk would have a existential crisis if he was no longer number one

They used to, they still do, but they used to too.

You are wrong, sir. Their core competency is building out infrastructure and networks to support their software and user base. software is by far the least complicated thing they do.

what makes YouTube YouTube is not the video player it’s the servers that can handle petabytes of uploads a day and billions of views. YouTube software wise, is no different from the 100s of porn websites that are coded by small European teams

I would go as far as to say writing more Code has almost no impact on their economic productivity. What drives those companies is infrastructure and networks

I mean, that says a lot about the kind of crisis out current economy is in. How much longer can the United States Be a world leader when it’s primary function is social media and advertising

I'm surprised people think LLMs, a thing which mainly excels at advertising, spam and writing code is going to generate that much economic activity.

Really lost here lol. Yes the reasons people don’t like them are because of the negative effects they produce.

People really think we have found a way to negate the laws of physics. As of there can exist a system without entropy.

Humans are prisoners of the present moment, but just think what a market is. What does it really mean as it accumulates disorder for decade plus.

Can the market just continue to deviate from a markets actual purpose forever? Hell, can anything in this universe exist in a particular state forever.

If it can’t, then it means at some point things have to go in the other direction. Use your imagination what that means for the largest most complex (man made) system in the history of this planet.

Definitely the space I'm in, where I know exactly what I need, exactly how to implement it, just saves time typing 100s of lines.

Depends which way you look at it

I’d like people to notice that those who claim this amazing AI productivity boost are always: pushing out software they don’t know how to judge the quality of and pushing projects that are 70% done. Every. Single. Time.

I use Claude all the time, it is immensely helpful. It is also very nuanced and requires a high level of expertise in a specific domain to produce quality work. Even then, that take time and effort. Anyone saying otherwise, quite frankly, doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Ok bud your libertarian ideas are fascinating, it’s a shame this website doesn’t have too many high school stoners that would like to explore them.

> If it soothes you at all, you can think of it the other way around.

I appreciate your condescending attempt to explain your garbled Reaganomics logic.

Just by your tone, I can tell your mental framework hasnt changed in the last 30 years, despite copious evidence to the contrary of everything you say. You probably think Climate Change is a scam ... or something. By your tone, I can also tell youre a pretentious person who thinks they "just know better".

When Microsoft and Amazon use public resources and infrastructure to grow their business and maximize their profits, buy out politicians and push policies to destroy competitors margins while improving their own. Monopolize markets, expand into every vertical and then jack up costs to increase their margins. What is going on exactly? Why are trillions able to be allocated for AI R&D, but the education, and sciences and pretty much everything that might benefit the general public receives a tiny fraction? Oh right, because thats charity. Education and science and the post office need to turn a profit! Why did the banks receive a bailout on the taxpayers dollar, is that not charity... I forget did they return all of the billions on profits they made along the way?

Just ask yourself, what is a government and what is its purpose?

Whatever you're going to reply, just dont bother, because its the same arguments that have been used since the 80s to scam the public.

I’m sorry to get incensed but I’m shocked in 2026 there are people who think tax is charity. The decades of corporate propaganda and brainwashing and corruption have really played a number on society’s understanding of basic concepts.

Tax is a mechanism for the distribution of wealth in a society. USA GDP is 38 trillion dollars and yet 85% of citizens own a tiny fraction of it. Where is all that money going? The government is on the verge of bankruptcy due to extreme debt.. to whom?

Large corporations are bleeding the society and the government dry but tax is a charity. Please educate yourself and propagate this bs

> it’s not that far already

Do you have examples of (almost) entire software written by AI?

AI excels at make toy versions of software, prototypes and skeletons.

The closest things to fully functioning software created by AI that exists are all done by people that are experts in that particular field, ie software engineers.

To be more precise, the late stage capitalism phase we are in has designed itself around destroying anything that contributes to society.

Nothing can exist without making a profit. If there is something that is useful, our system makes sure it will be exploited for maximum profit which will in turn destroy that very things.

A book on .... SQL? What is this, the 1970s?

Yeah not sure what this guy is talking about, LLMs excel with queries because the SQL language is pretty small in scope and its easy to test the output. Table structure and relationships are easy to feed to the AI.

> I train non-LLM transformer models on (older and rarer) datasets, and automating the ingestion of sprawling datasets with hundreds of columns, often in a variety of local languages and different naming conventions adopted over decades

All of this sounds like basic data processing

I imagine a much darker future when it’s almost every enterprise system known for stability is now unstable.

Planes falling out of the sky, trains crashing into each other, pacemakers downloading updates and freezing

If you are going to bring up history you should really look into what it took to redistribute wealth from oligarchs in the past.

The fact that oligarchy now has more resources than ever in the history of humankind, a means to mass surveillance and generating mass propaganda, those wealth redistributions are looking much MUCH harder to accomplish.

Yea, historically it will inevitably happen. Realistically it will be after the new version of fuedalism and dark ages. So strap in for the next 400 years aren’t looking too good