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New comment by nemo44x in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

nemo44x — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:17:36 +0000

The problem today is we had 10 years of “learn to code” and a a lot of people did. Similar to 2001. 2009 wasn’t really bad for tech since we had a huge shortage of workers in the space. Companies would hire straight out of mid-tier universities. CS departments were desperate for students.

New comment by nemo44x in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

nemo44x — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:33:51 +0000

Roundup has saved far more lives than it may have cut short, if any.

New comment by nemo44x in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

nemo44x — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:39:46 +0000

School was, is, and will always be a filter to determine who should manage and access resources.

New comment by nemo44x in "GPT-5.5"

nemo44x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:15:06 +0000

It’s like all these things though - it’s not a real production worthy product. It’s a super-demo. It looks amazing until you realize there’s many months of work to make it something of quality and value.

I think people are starting to catch on to where we really are right now. Future models will be better but we are entering a trough of dissolution and this attitude will be widespread in a few months.

New comment by nemo44x in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

nemo44x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:11:39 +0000

For years the advantage big tech had was that capital expenditure was minimal and now with every big tech company trying to become an AI company they’re blowing gobs of money on data centers and everything that goes inside of them.

AI is a huge bubble right now and although it is useful and future models will be more so, the truth is that it’s a lot of pie in the sky too.

New comment by nemo44x in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

nemo44x — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:03:09 +0000

Well, I guess we’re going to fire all the Ping-pong players at the office and replace them with these robots.

New comment by nemo44x in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

nemo44x — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:01:59 +0000

There’s very little R&D cost. Possibly little cap-ex as the infra to build exists.

New comment by nemo44x in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

nemo44x — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:12:28 +0000

Probably aren’t seeing the promised productivity improvements of AI in terms of shipping production code and not just “super demos” that aren’t robust. So they want to see if the withers are really putting in the time or if the models struggle past a level of complexity that stalls or reverses early gains.

New comment by nemo44x in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

nemo44x — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:54:58 +0000

The funny thing about AI is counterintuitive. It will put an even higher value on quality as quantity is now essentially worthless. I don’t believe AI can generate high quality on its own. It needs to be used and manipulated to generate higher quality outputs than a human or AI alone can.

New comment by nemo44x in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

nemo44x — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:50:46 +0000

> We’re automating the interesting work with AI and leaving the drudge work for humans.

I think you have that backwards.

New comment by nemo44x in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

nemo44x — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:51:12 +0000

For thousands of years people were unsure if they’d have food the next day and still had a lot of kids. This happens today in the poorest parts of the world.

People are not having kids because they don’t want them. Those that can use birth control and failing that access abortion, etc.

People stopped having kids precisely the moment they had the option to.

New comment by nemo44x in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

nemo44x — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:49:26 +0000

It’s a weak take and here’s why. Huge tasks like going to the moon are made up of many different individuals that have different goals. Some are rocket scientists that want to innovate on the science of rocketry. Others are government admins with political goals.

So to call the entire thing “political” ignores the purpose of those involved and critical to the outcome at the expense of just labeling it all “political”.

New comment by nemo44x in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

nemo44x — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:09:31 +0000

What’s a better method for determining how to utilize and distribute resources? To determine where energy should be used and where it should be moved from?

New comment by nemo44x in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

nemo44x — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:40:42 +0000

Don’t apologize to these types of people. It will only make your problem worse as now you’re an admitted offender. Ignore them or better yet laugh at them to put their insane ideas back on the margins where they belong.

New comment by nemo44x in "So where are all the AI apps?"

nemo44x — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:14:36 +0000

AI is unbelievably useful and will continue to make an impact but a few things:

- The 80/20 rule still applies. We’ve optimized the 20% of time part (a lot!) but all the hype is only including the 80% of work part. It looks amazing and is, but you can’t escape the reality of ~80% of the time is still needed on non-trivial projects.

- Breathless AI CEO hype because they need money. This stuff costs a lot. This has passed on to run of the mill CEOs that want to feel ahead of things and smart.

- You should be shipping faster in many cases. Lots of hype but there is real value especially in automating lots of communication and organization tasks.

New comment by nemo44x in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

nemo44x — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:08:07 +0000

You still need to review and edit.

New comment by nemo44x in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

nemo44x — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:07:15 +0000

Essentially what happened after .com bust. For years CS departments had to sell themselves and convince people there was a future in computers.

Not that AI is the same as Websites all going broke. But no one can see the future and it’s unlikely that deep technical knowledge will be obsolete.

New comment by nemo44x in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

nemo44x — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:45:16 +0000

Why shouldn’t it be? You can gather and form your thoughts, create a draft, and then have a LLM rewrite it for you. You can write in the style you prefer so you can focus on thoughts and then have the LLM rewrite it in the appropriate style for the audience.

New comment by nemo44x in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"

nemo44x — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:25:10 +0000

I think that’s possible too but the trouble is training them. LLMs are built on decades of human input. A new framework, programming language, database, etc doesn’t have that.

We are in the low hanging fruit phase right now.

New comment by nemo44x in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

nemo44x — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:29:17 +0000

It’s in the best interest for companies to list publicly though. We want as many people in the country invested in as many good companies. Equity in the country is mutual self interest. Similar to why we want a nation of home owners, not renters.