Jesus Christ that’s a lotta dough

Agreed. I don’t see LLM services making an actual ROI any time soon unless something drastic changes.

The primary financial issue with LLMs taking people’s jobs is in the cost of operation, mainly for the LLM companies. They still have not made an ROI, not even close, and that’s with massive government contracts. I personally think that there’s one of three possibilities here. Most of the LLM companies could go under (but they may be “too big to fail” at this point), the LLM companies could start to charge far too much for the quality of the outputs causing some companies to back out, or the LLM companies will, by some miracle, get a ROI through a more efficient model.

The models are enshittified at the start, since they’re basically just hallucinating with guardrails. There’s not any way to make them truly deterministic. Even the “agents” that run through multiple iterations of code to find the “best” solution are lacking. This is because they cannot “think” logically.

My personal opinion, though, is that they’re simply using it as an excuse to fire workers and pump up company stock value. I don’t believe they actually think that LLMs can fully replace devs and engineers. So yes, while LLMs are taking jobs right now, it’s not because they’re good enough at what they do or anything like that. It’s just greed.

Despite signing it, Newsom issued a statement urging the legislature to amend the law before its effective date, citing concerns from streaming services and game developers about “complexities such as multi-user accounts shared by a family member and user profiles utilized across multiple devices.”

Then why the fuck did you sign it if it wasn’t ready and needed amendments? Is this what you’re going to do as president too?

Rhetorical, of course. Note how he doesn’t say he disagrees with the bill, just that it needed to consider family devices.

If this is who wins the primary, we are done. We’re basically already done, for sure, but him winning the primary would be the final nail in the coffin.

Wrongful detention sounds familiar

Just found it? Companies like Amazon have been doing layoffs under the guise of AI for a couple years now.

That is literally what I’m saying, yes. I take it you have never worked on the operations side of data centers?

That is not true, they have multiple data centers. I completely disagree on the costs as well. A single high capacity switch can cost tens of thousands (of which they have probably hundreds) and that’s not even mentioning storage, electricity, rack space, server cost ($$$$). The land is the cheapest part of data centers.

Have you worked in or with a data center? It was most of my job for 6 years.

I didn’t mention Steam’s cut of sales, but I do want to mention that you can refund steam games as long as you don’t play them for longer than 2 hours. This is actually better than GameStop or retailers who normally only accept returns of sealed, new copies. So I’m not sure why you’d being that up when it defeats your point.

If I somehow found a way to leave, it certainly wouldn’t be to Japan. They’re just starting the same rise to fascism.

My cats have a blast inside and don’t hunt birds to extinction or get run over by cars. I’m fine with it, and so are they.

Yep, same. Plus they live healthier lives indoors and are far less likely to be injured.

“Let’s follow in Texas’ footsteps except go even further” - Colorado and California Dem Lawmakers

I bet all households in Kansas have gender neutral bathrooms. Obviously not public, but still.

Add some commercial bathrooms to the mix too. They gunna outlaw those?

Also people that let their cats outside are part of this problem.

Oh yeah, I wasn’t looking for a 1:1 replacement for Amazon, my bad. I was just curious if you had any decent ones in general.

I’ve left Amazon as well. What are your go-to sites?

I mean, sure. But I think you might be underestimating the infrastructure costs. They aren’t just using a few 10GB switches. They also aren’t just using a single data center to store and deliver games. Then, you have to consider all of the redundancies involved, the contractors, the data center contracts, etc. Even if they don’t have their own DCs, AWS or Azure at this level is $$$$$$.

Storing, transferring, and hosting at this scale is not cheap by any means. It makes GameStop’s tech infrastructure look like peanuts in comparison.

Wait, what the fuck? I mean, I’m not all that surprised that misogyny came out over this, especially these days, but still.

Fuck the AIPAC.

He certainly has an influence - he’s still the chairman of the board. He gets to decide who gets fired and when. In some ways, he found a way to have more influence, while being less hands-on.