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New comment by manwithopinions in "Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets"

manwithopinions — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:19:41 +0000

Matthew Prince of Cloudflare has been outspoken in saying that companies that do not go all in on AI will be left behind. There probably is some value being received in exchange for tokens but it seems quite plausible that some or even much of this spending by companies is driven by fear.

$1k/month is nothing as a hedge against a CEO being accused of causing their company to be left behind in the AI utopia of tomorrow. If you’re in a peer group that rewards risk taking and all of your peers are taking a risk, you’ve got to take that risk too. Better to burn money trying something and then failing, than to not try. Failure is acceptable, missing an opportunity is not.

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025221270061580453

“My advice: don’t be a [dinosaur]. I’ve seen this movie before and they go extinct. ”

New comment by manwithopinions in "The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents"

manwithopinions — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:51:35 +0000

The EFF believes the ends (freedom) justify the means (access to everything good and bad for everyone). Governments are pragmatic, not fundamentalist.

This article addresses the technological flaws in age verification, then says “but even if there were, broad restrictions on social media will inevitably limit access to lawful speech, and valuable online communities, and arts and culture.”

If the EFF care about freedom above all else (a reasonable position) muddying the waters with half-baked age verification isn’t perfect arguments is just sloppy.

Why does the freedom matter above all else? That’s what voters need to be convinced of.

New comment by manwithopinions in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

manwithopinions — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:48:45 +0000

Accusing coworkers of being antisemitic crosses the line, but accusing coworkers of sterilizing children and denying the existence of gender is ok? Surely both are bad, neither is acceptable in a workplace. Do you mean it’s not dumb because you share his views?

New comment by manwithopinions in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

manwithopinions — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:24:32 +0000

I think Ed would argue that if 90% of your customers are only using your product because their usage is subsidised and the money to cover that subsidisation is coming from unsustainable customers tokenmaxxing then you are “fundamentally unprofitable”.

The question is, can OpenAI survive if customers start tokenminning? A pure inference business could be profitable but that’s not the business OpenAI are in. OpenAI has a billion users that OpenAI loses money on.

New comment by manwithopinions in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

manwithopinions — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:44:33 +0000

Pieter is so dumb. All he seems to do is post comparisons between the wonderful U.S. and dying EU that are completely wrong. If Elon is listening to Pieter, pray for Elon.