They did open the strait though, just to anyone who will pay a $2 million bribe in not USD.

It seems clear to me that cloud LLMs have the same scaling problems and demand concerns that cloud gaming did.

Oh well, maybe regular people will have to still run software locally after all. 🤷

I thought part of the point was to have a website work more as an application: one update to a piece of information results in that information being near instantly updated across the site.

Then I looked into the angular stuff the UI people were working on and yeah… something like 10 (costly) requests for the same exact fucking JSON. They were talking about doing caching on the frontend to optimize it. What are we even doing?!

Modern UI development is such fucking shit. I have no idea why they went with all of these heavyweight shit frameworks.

Oh my God you guys, I think this career conman might’ve *gasp* lied to us to get the power he wanted to do what he wanted. 😱

Who could’ve predicted this?!

What I took issue with is your argument that collusion between companies to lower wages was somehow unlikely when it’s already happened before. That doesn’t prove that it’s happening now, but it does disprove your argument that they wouldn’t collude or it’s extremely unlikely.

something that can only be done in collusion with other companies and so is rather far-fetched.

Some of the companies that are doing this (i.e., major tech companies) have colluded in the past — specifically, to drive down wages — so that part isn’t exactly a conspiratorial fantasy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

Just admit, like all people who smoke cigarettes do, that it’s bad for you and that you’ll continue doing it.

I don’t know why people can’t just do this. I drink — sometimes like a fish — and I know it’s not good for me and likely will take years off of my life. But I like it. So oh fucking well.