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- TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish15 days
Oh they had plenty of other people’s money. They have to burn someones money very very fast
- droopy4096@lemmy.caEnglish15 days
use their cheapest plan, burn their tokens, burn the hole in their budget. could backfire though as then “clever analysts” will claim that demand is up and eager bankers will shell out more cash
- 15 days
Or educate the people around you that “AI” is not the magical fairy dust machine that can do anything imaginable. Might be better than giving them any money at all.
- DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish15 days
The people actively using AI are not an issue of lacking education on how bad it is. Just a quick example is of an upper management asshole who absolutely “loves” AI. Reality is they shit out slop but their direct reports undo the damage to protect their jobs. I know of more than a few developers in a tough spot where they are credit card slaves so work invisible overtime to compensate. They did this to themselves and are trapped in AI hell.
- 14 days
Interesting perspective. Software development works different where I come from, the dev part is still very much in control of the developers themselves. However the management lives in delusionville and the expectations are pretty much insane compared to the reality of the actual turnout. My comment above was more about educating the general public… AI results can look pretty compelling unless you decide to have a closer look, and a lot of non-dev people are falling for it. Either because they are dumb and gullible, lack analytic thinking or because they have no real contact with AI and are just exposed to the hype through the media.
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
It will be a race which AI company holds out longest. All of them are making losses that no company can survive, and if they rise their prices enough to cover the costs, they will basically lose all their customers. Who will then struggle to hire the people back who still know how to do things without AI.
- sobchak@programming.devEnglish15 days
I think they could significantly lower their costs if they turn their focus away from the race to “AGI.” But, their valuations don’t really make sense unless investors believe they will achieve AGI.
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish14 days
I was there when the “Neural Networks” idea started. They thought they could program NNs to achieve AGI. Now they think they can do it with LLMs. But LLMs are just parrots with a large dictionary. They won’t reach that point, either. An LLM is way too much rooted in words to be able to think.
- 15 days
Recent models are quite good. Like gpt 5.6 sol. Even better than mythos 5.
- expr@programming.devEnglish15 days
How is this a response to a comment about AGI?
LLMs are not currently, nor ever will be, anything remotely resembling AGI. AGI is still entirely within the realm of science fiction, like teleportation or time travel.
- sobchak@programming.devEnglish15 days
The “best” one I’ve tried is the latest Opus. I don’t trust any of them to use for real work, so I mostly just play around with a local Qwen 3.6 27B or Deepseek v4 Flash. I have heard OpenAI’s latest models produce less bloat than Anthropic’s.
I should say I do find LLMs useful as a kind of search agent (both web and large unfamiliar code bases). And GhidraMCP is pretty cool (maybe just because I don’t have much experience with reverse engineering).
15 daysYet still hallucinates mass bullshit and can’t count, can’t architect, and can’t write a decent test
- Auli@lemmy.caEnglish15 days
Then Google wins? Since they have the ad business sonar least they are making some money.
- HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
Oh boy, I can’t wait for my tax dollars to go to bailing them out instead of food and healthcare
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish15 days
I was under the impression that they had an extremely large amount of negative money.
- 15 days
If Skyrim has taught me anything it’s probably integer overflow
- Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
Since their current cash wouldn’t fit in a 32-bit integer that’d mean it’s at least 64-bit. An integer underflow would require a debt of over 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 units-of-currency before it rolled over to positives.
Man, this bubble is even bigger than I thought! /s
- krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
Let the internet do what it does best, create all kinds of weird and unnecessary porn. That should do it.
- GodofLies@lemmy.caEnglish14 days
Amazon wasn’t profitable for many years until it was. Now make your own conclusions about AI.
Apples & oranges.
The AI industry is fundamentally judged based on its symbolic similarities to bygone eras. Buying GPUs and building data centers sort of feels like Amazon Web Services, even though the $765 billion that big tech will spend in 2026 will be more than ten times Amazon’s combined capex during the period where AWS was being built. ChatGPT sort of feels like Google Search or Facebook Ads or next app store, but only because it’s a culturally-relevant piece of software, largely driven by the larger cargo cult of tech crystalizing around it.
