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New comment by dawnerd in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

dawnerd — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:20:41 +0000

Yep mad about that too. I was about half way through upgrading my 45 drives server when they started to go up.

New comment by dawnerd in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

dawnerd — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:15:46 +0000

They’re going to pivot to you renting desktop cloud compute instead of owning anything.

New comment by dawnerd in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

dawnerd — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:12:56 +0000

I’m so mad I didn’t max out my main server when I had the chance. Used enterprise sticks were dirt cheap on eBay.

New comment by dawnerd in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

dawnerd — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:49:58 +0000

Didn’t even sell the branding since that got sold to the same company that buys up all sorts of brands. The ai “pivot” was a blatant last ditch effort to milk some of the stock. It’s nothing more than fraud.

New comment by dawnerd in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

dawnerd — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:25:28 +0000

And if/when companies need to scale back their ai investments they can spin it too and the stock market will eat it up.

New comment by dawnerd in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

dawnerd — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:33:45 +0000

It goes back to the whole, you don't make money mining gold, you make money selling shovels. Nvidia has been playing every tech hype cycle recently. Question is, what will be next.

New comment by dawnerd in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:49:00 +0000

That was my experience with Claude code too. Someone will come and tell you you're doing it wrong. Hard to do it right when it'll just stop randomly, especially when it ends with something like 'let me know if you want me to continue!'.

New comment by dawnerd in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:42:20 +0000

Care to list them then? I have yet to see a successful vibe coded project

New comment by dawnerd in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:19:51 +0000

That's like saying farmers that don't use pesticides will die out. There's whole industries around doing things not the way big companies say you have to. Human-centric firms will pop up and proposer.

New comment by dawnerd in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:18:16 +0000

The copilot token pricing is going to wake a lot of companies up. Even with our smaller company only using around 1/3 of our allotted requests, next month the bill will easily twice as much.

New comment by dawnerd in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:16:29 +0000

How is that possible when the cost of memory and hard drives have gone up 3x+ in the last six months? Maybe cheaper if you're OAI or one of the lucky companies Nvidia is propping up. Everyone else is getting screwed.

New comment by dawnerd in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:20 +0000

The token cost to fix might surpass what a human would cost to just do it.

New comment by dawnerd in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

dawnerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:04:47 +0000

June 1st for all the folks taking advantage of copilot. It was an astounding deal and a lot of people were “abusing” it.

New comment by dawnerd in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

dawnerd — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:25:59 +0000

Personally I found 5.5 a massive step back from 5.4. Both of them still use way too many fallbacks and unnecessary checks, especially if you're having it output php. It's fine if you're just one person and checking everything and able to catch and correct. But it's really bad when you have a team all using it, not checking the output and trusting it's output leading to spaghetti code. Technically works, but very messy and will no doubt lead to buggy code.

It still writes like a junior dev, in that despite AI being able to get a picture of an entire repo, it's changes are typically confined to the task it's working on and will opt to duplicate logic to keep changes contained. Again, technically works, not ideal.

New comment by dawnerd in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

dawnerd — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:19:28 +0000

That's literally my job...

New comment by dawnerd in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

dawnerd — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:47:02 +0000

Yet it still codes like a junior developer that memorized all of stack overflow.

New comment by dawnerd in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

dawnerd — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:00:26 +0000

Yes, I’d say it is ethically dubious, especially when it goes against what the citizens were asking for. Definitely a fine line and a bit of a gray area but still, lots of gov officials don’t get caught up in this and manage just fine. It’s the ones that are easily swayed shouldn’t be in any position of power. Also IMO lobbying should be illegal.

New comment by dawnerd in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

dawnerd — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:03:25 +0000

And besides, these days no ones giving straight cash to bribe, it's always via other means that are harder to trace and maybe not even directly monetary (sending them on a vacation, golfing, donations to charity...).

It's weird that people seem to act like lobbying doesn't exist at the city council level.

New comment by dawnerd in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

dawnerd — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:46:50 +0000

The other day I half-jokingly said I was going to build a site to expose local council members for taking kickbacks and someone said "that isn't happening"

It's literally happening and this story makes it really clear. I wish it was this easy to spot. It's usually Flock donating to some charity a council person is also a board member on

New comment by dawnerd in "Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order"

dawnerd — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:11:32 +0000

Ai companies definitely downloading more than just books.