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New comment by Plywood1 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

Plywood1 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:09:43 +0000

TBH I'm surprised people don't see the obvious result of this collective madness:

1. Force every engineer to use agentic AI to the max.

2. Constant anxiety at work due to the threat of job loss and unreasonable expectations from management/business.

3. Engineers start yoloing everything using AI while wasting tokens.

4. Speed goes up in the short term, while quality and expertise degrade little by little, all while bleeding money due to AI usage.

5. One year down the line you have a company full of engineers that don't care and a bunch of slop-bloated, bug-ridden products that the customers don't want, and a massive bill.

New comment by Plywood1 in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

Plywood1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:46:30 +0000

So, big tech takes the "gift" of passionate developers and: 1. Use them to threaten their jobs (and so many other jobs like lawyers, artists, tech writers...). 2. Hoard hardware, causing prices to raise to absurd levels and effectively making it harder for passionate developers to tinker at home. 3. Set up circular deals between themselves to raise stock prices, creating a bubble that will make 2008 seem like a joke. 4. Close the models and refuse to give credit to anyone or be transparent about training data. 5. Hire cheap labor to label training data in third world countries. 6. Use their models to gather data about the users and profile them, essentially paving the way for mass AI surveillance. 7. Fearmonger about how their models have the potential to wipe the human race. 8. And many other wonderful things.

But hey, we're failing to see how AI is magnifying the value of "our gift". See? Little Timmy can now build a website for his dog with 0 effort just by prompting ChatGPT! Isn't that mind blowing? I don't mind if he's Carmack or fucking Leonardo da Vinci, he's legit stupid.

New comment by Plywood1 in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

Plywood1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:37:11 +0000

Hello