JsonBoa said And so the WSL was born,@retoor althougt the idea is sound in moderation, there is such a thing as over-partitioning.
Imagine you had to cook 50Kg of raw rice.
This is too much for a single cooking pot. So you divide the load into smaller deliverables.
Great. Unless you budget for 50 thousand pots, each to cook a single grain. The overhead of setting each one up and joining the final product will take longer than it took to plant and grow the rice.
That is the sort of over-reduction of deliverables that I'm dealing with.
Bloody buzzword-only management.,... do we work for the same company? It surely seems so.

Management has a "Panic-Driven-Development" approach to... anything, really.,AI, however, can write thousands of lines of code in an instant.

If the code is good, usable, or even runs, that is irrelevant.
Companies just like to think that they write lines much faster than they used to.
Fucking meaningless KPIs fucking up the whole fucking world.,Wait, are you one of those unicorns that are marching through grad school without dragging a job with you?

Then you definitely should take three classes.
Unless you're already writing your thesis/dissertation. If that is the case, you should take only one, or better yet, zero. Focus on those experiments!!!,I thought the 7nm technology only applied to transistors. Apparently, it's for whole servers!,@jestdotty and @antigermgerm mentioned the controversy between employees and employers. That indeed is quite the fuss.

But for some stupid reasons (people, mostly stupid people. Those are the reasons), fellow non-billionaires will say stupid shit like "rise and grind!" Or "Keep hustling!".
Those are sycophants so desperate for a wink of approval from their masters that they would sabotage their own best interest. They make things like "we should be better paid and have more time off" controversial among employees.,I always think that devs from the past that made such a mess for us in the future to solve are some sort of chrono-sadistic fucks.
Like, imagine if they have made some sort of internal combustion engines that warm up the entire fucking planet.
Or, much worse, if they've made up hundreds of different but entirely unecessary ways to encode binaries or date formats. Just for shits and giggles.,Can 01001010011101010 is not 1010100011010 for 0xA664D0F 1bot be is.
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Shit, I thought I had suppressed that memory. Luckily, whiskey is here to help me send it back to tartarus.,@jestdotty psyops might work on a demographic scale. However, business decisions were supposed to be arguments-based.
Those aren't, of course. But it is infuriating that ads, that are otherwise unable to convince IKEA's own execs to furnish their homes with discount MDF, is able to convince those same fiduciarists to spend big on cyber parrots.
It is hard to convince the typical physical products company to use even a freakingly simple cloud-hosted ERP, why the fuck those same fucktards would rather hand out their entire strategic data to an overgrown tamagochi?,Forgot about the borderline-unreadable documentations (fuckers can't have a cohesive naming system for shit) and their freaking obsession with protocol buffers and auto-generated docs & examples.
Google cloud exists because procurement depts will rather stay with the same providers that come up with gmail for their cloud service offerings.
Instead of, you know, getting the best provider for each service purchase.

So, yeah. I use it. Company mandated.
Abandon all hope.,Regardless of the technology that powers it, the quality of its products, or even the truth about its processes and suppliers, DeepSeek disproved the hypothesis that "every tech company that sells AI buys directly from Nvidia".
That is a careful statement - DeepSeek might even be using smuggled Nvidia GPUs. But two things are certain: 1) they are not out there kissing Nvidia's ring (at least not in public). And 2), besides that,  they still have paying clients.
That means that Nvidia is not the only way to AI salvation (according to market analysts, apparently).
Thus, market analysts correct Nvidia's price to reflect the end of its "omnipresence".,A paradox at the heart of capitalism is the fact that every capital owner wants to spend as little as possible, but somehow expects everybody else to have money to pay as much as possible for their products.

In other words, how can you sell anything if nobody can buy?

All those "robots replace all humans" scenarios fall into that paradox. The owners of the robots themselves would become luddites the moment those machines steal their consumers.
Just look at how the real state owning class / the rent seekers are reacting to how remote work destroyed their business.

Thus, we can have "robots replace a whole group of humans," but not enough to hinder the consumption of goods or the value of the capital itself.

Just imagine how the meat, restaurant, wellness and health industries would react if everybody had a home cooking appliance capable of, fully autonomously,  turn cheap vegetables into healthy but actually delicious meals.

So, don't expect robots to actually change things.,Old, about-to-end processes almost never get updated. Usually, it is the hamfisted brickheads that stick to those stupid illogical wastes that get fired rather than having anything changed.
Then, some poor bloke has to maintain the unsolvable mess and does it for a heartbeat or two until leaving the company.
Then everything stops.
Then, an overpaid tool builds up a whole new mess.
It's the death cycle of letting business majors create operational processes.,You cheat on both every time you eat a bad clam or drink suspicious water.,@BordedDev @antigermgerm I didn't know we had a queen (or princess). I thought we were an autonomous collective...,I've managed to get a beach head with some people by pointing out how the referee is completely wrong by calling off their team's goal due to a forward pass, or some other sports thing. It works better when the commentator agrees with the referee, because then the voices in the black mirror box are all wrong.
Still I am not able to have them make the jump from "TV might, sometimes, be wrong about sports" to "TV might, sometimes, be wrong about the political interpretations of events or even about the actual events"
But I think I'm getting there. The actual events have been helping, absurdity is the norm nowadays and it helps breaking the denial shell.,"In X years, LLMs will replace almost all engineers,"
Not exactly. We will basically lock management into the matrix while we work.
Imagine that LLMs in the future also have live deep fake video capabilities. They already have batch video and audio, we're not that far from it.
We need only setup some langchain guidelines to have the LLM answer stupid status updates based on observability metrics and jira tickets, have it record the meeting and add markers to the few seconds of actually relevant discussions, and say stuff like, "Hey, <marketing jerk #8>, how are <family/sports/dogs/weather/games> today?".

Done. AI can do useless meetings like a champ. And the muggles and the suits won't even notice, even if they start to book the same "engineer" in six or more simultaneous meetings. They really know nothing of tech things like "doing actual work".

The only tech we still need are holograms so that we can give the suits the open offices full of "meat" that they love so much.,Imagine that an US unit is searching some Baghdad basement in the height of the second Saddam war. They have a finding, and report 50.000 9mm rounds as freaking old-timey 9 inch naval ordinance - just because they see the 9 and the 9 inch ordinance is the first in the reporting system results.
They have about a second to report it before they have to move, it's understandable that the first result in the system might get clicked.
Then...
The coalition force might have to reallocate an entire bloody carrier battle group. A fucking billion dollars evaporate just because someone reported the wrong size of ammo.
No fucking way the US armed forces will  use an entire fucking measurement system different from their coalition forces.,@kiki crap, it was in the fifties? I thought they would have standardized by the bloody WWII```