Maybe. There were rounds of layoffs a couple years ago where companies used COVID over employment as the rationale. I think four years removed that rationale is a bit of a stretch.

I think it’s also possible that the looming recession is a cause, but they can’t say that out loud for fear of offending the Crybaby in Chief.

And if AI is working properly these “innovative” tech companies shouldn’t really need to fire anyone, right? All their bright employees should just be able to use AI to generate value for their respective companies.

Idk the answer, but I can say that I personally know high-performing engineers who swear by it. I mostly found it useful as a rubber duck, or to quickly tear down some code in a language with which I’m not acquainted.

I actively try to avoid AI for moral reasons, but I have found it useful for certain tasks. It’s not a panacea, but it’s also not useless.

That’s not accurate from my understanding. I quit my SDE job in December, but my former coworkers say they use AI pretty much all day and find it useful. Ofc, the company’s systems were an indecipherable mess, mostly because of rushed choices those same people made everyday, but neither here nor there. This is why tech companies are cutting jobs.

Whether any of this is sustainable remains to be seen, but there are current use cases and real demand for “AI” data centers.

What’s the alternative?

The OOP goons eventually won and Go added generics a few years back.

I don’t think it makes sense to think of the Satanic Panic as projection. It was a feedback loop between middle-class, stay-at-home moms and the profit-seeking media. No one in that loop was practicing Satanism.

Haha, I’m not even supposed to talk!

Other people get paid to make decisions, not think about them.

And ofc they don’t suffer any consequences for making bad decisions.

Yeah, and since System76 supports Nvidia cards in their hardware, the drivers tend to work out of the box.

XPS13. You can still get a 1080p non-touch screen with Ubuntu pre-installed (at a discount vs. windows). I’ve had mine just over 3 years and it’s still going strong.

Bluetooth headsets. Still can’t have sound and microphone at the same time, which isn’t great.

Editing old posts doesn’t prevent them from being used for training AI data. It would prevent the data from being scraped, but Reddit, X, Meta, etc. are certainly storing all of your edits and training models on them, both internally and for third-parties who are paying for that data.

Trump doesn’t want the oil for himself, he wants to keep his keyholders happy. He wants U.S. oligarchs to be able to extract resources from Venezuela.