Lol. Lmao even. Rofl perhaps.
But it stops clearly short of roflmao, I infer?
It shouldn’t
The roflcopter has left the pad. No sleep til LOLWTFBBQ
Roflcopter?
Roflcopter?
Hey hey hey hey hey whoa whoa let’s just keep the big guns in reserve for now, ok?
Ai bubble burst will be the time.
Too bad it’s going to hurt so many people too
Albuquerque New Mexico…
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Albuquerque New Mexico period period period exclamation mark
It’s just a special case of TANSTAAFL.
I’m confused. I thought employers loved AI and it was the future.
They love money. AI was good money for a while. Or at least it looked like good money until you looked at it for longer than 3 seconds, which greatly surpasses the average attention span of an executive. And also the average executive’s iq.
They loved it too much and now it costs more than paying a living wage to a human being. The end goal of AI was always to cut cost and layoff people. The best sabotage right now is to setup a script that constantly prompts an LLM for something useless. I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water. But it would send a message. AI is not cheaper, it never was. Even with today’s outrageous token prices, LLM companies are still bleeding money per user. It will only get more expensive as data center contracts fall through and the investment craze fizzles out.
the AI companies are hoping the ones buying the LLM subscriptions to be the suckers and losers.
I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water.
I wouldn’t. It’s not possible to do meaningful validation of a process that has AI in the loop because it is not repeatable and there is no reliable explainability. So for anything where money or lives are at stake, it’s not worth a shit. Same goes for anything where the company is held liable for false statements.
I meant as a means of corporate sabotage.
Mixed bag.
There are legitimately high value problems that AI works well against. But ungoverned proliferation has a net negative ROI across complex and difficult to measure areas.
When applied expertly, it works great. When blindly handed to your entire workforce as a panacea, not so much
Someone’s been reading the HR posters.
So it has a negative ROI and anyone who brought it into their firm is a clueless twat who uncritically bought a sales pitch.
If corporate governance were not a joke, C-level heads would roll.
Something I’ve been noticing recently is that while the cost per token on specific models hasn’t gone up, the provided interfaces for using those models are starting to chew up significantly larger numbers of tokens for the same tasks that used fewer tokens with older versions of the interface software just a few months ago. Likely the interfaces are applying more expensive guardrail prompts and charging the end user for those tokens — but the end result is that it costs 4x as much to get the same work done.
My CLAUDE.md file bloated significantly. It tried to load unnecessary skills and would retain throughout the whole session. Fixing that, maintaining good wikis and using clear often really helped fixed my personal token burn.
The models are evolving. Everything uses multi modal in the bavkend, eating up more and more tokens for the same task.
I switched to caveman on Claude Code. It cuts the token count; it’s the same output, and it appears to me to be faster as well.
My company recently converted our PMs into Vine Engineers right after laying off actual engineers. They don’t even know what git is or how to use it. 3 of them alone are using $7k a month in Claude tokens and they have not raised so much as a single PR.
Who needs PRs? What’s a branch? It defaults to master and that seems to work just fine!
How is it too expensive? Surely it’s generating way more profit than it would cost in value. How else could it be propping up the entire economy?
Itd have to be some kind of bubble and that would mean we were in a lottttt of danger and should reasses our use of it.
Nah we should just reduce our use because its too expensive and then stop thinking about it beyond that.
Itd have to be some kind of bubble and that would mean we were in a lottttt of danger and should reasses our use of it.
Well yeah, but if it were the only sector propping up the whole economy and we reassessed it, the economy would be in a loooooot of danger anyway.
Luckily, that would never happen…
Heh, re ass.
Imo its because people will lazily ask the llm to remove or change simple code instead of doing it themselves
This is actually how the bubble begins to pop, we’re seeing it happen now.
…said every day now for a year
All over America, employees are saying “But YOU said…”
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
Why use many token when few do trick
Some CEO guy said employees must evolve. Throttle your workloads even more employees. Transcend! Praise be to the AI overlord(s)!
A signs of the times? Possible lead in the bubble popping?
AI bubble popping is that gif of the crash test truck.
No clue what you mean.
Wait for it.
That’s funny now that whole workflows are automated with it. Oops hit the quota, I’m off
You mean those workflows that could’ve been traditional scripting and CI/CD, if not for management forcing AI into them? Those workflows?
Those workflows
“Sorry boss, quota resets this evening at 8. See you tomorrow!”
“But it’s 9am!”
*shrugs* “Quota. Got none. Seeya.”
The new sword fighting in office chairs because “compiling”
Seems like A.I. is already demanding workers rights and lunch breaks. We treat the clankers better than actual human workers lol
We can only hope this helps kill the fad. I know companies won’t be taking any realistic lesson from this, but at least this can force them to abandon a lot of this crap.
I smell a bubble about to burst…
Im drooling over that idea
