"Productivity"

They added legs to horizon world!

THEY ADDED $221,000,000 to the GDP every month!! see, the economy is doing great

And they achieved… what exactly?

I sometimes wonder whether AI is just a way to launder money at the same time as burning the planet.

The app is falling apart. From marketplace discussions the link back to the listing is mostly broken. The app crashes frequently. Images and video will glitch back and forth by several pixels, randomly.

I think they are doing a massive study on how automating code production kills products. It is a brave move and I look forward to the papers they publish when the company folds.

Got more work done that doesn't matter and also atrophied their workers mind.

Right? I haven't noticed anything change, everything is as buggy, slow, and difficult to use as it ever was.

You make the mistake of assuming any of that matters.

You're talking devotees of the LessWrong crowd. The self-proclaimed "rationalists". They are quite literally a religious cult that worships AI. (I know this sounds deranged. That's because it is deranged!) The money is beside the point to them. What matters is that they trigger the Singularity so that the Rococo Basilisk (I know that's not the proper name: my artistic license number is MY0B) doesn't torment their simulacra for eternity.

No. I'm not making any of that up. (Except that it's Rocco's Basilisk.)

Wasted some water, electricity, released some heat to the atmosphere…

May have proved senior engineers are more effective having a team of agents rather than a team of junior engineers

Doubt that is the case, but that is likely what all these middle managers expect in these companies

Management has proven to the board that they're using the technology everybody in corporate likes. They'll surely get a bonus for that. And once it's obvious it fails they'll lay off thousands to compensate for the billions spent and get a bonus for the thorough cost cutting. Then hire a bunch offshore to get work done.

There is some quite hot water now, don't talk that down!

Edit: ah, another one was first...
Should read the comments, but sometimes the urge is overwhelming...

Their models suck, if they didn’t they’d sell them.

Edit to add: they’re selling access to their GPUs, that’s how bad and under used their models are. Again, if their own models were any good, someone would use them.

They have their own models, it depends on a teams manager and a few other constraints if they are required to use them or if they are pestered to use generative models at all.

I'm betting that cost is just the cost for the token usage and nothing else.

https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn

corporate elsewhere too. it's all for The Metrics, to see usage and adaptation go up. i'm not required to use it at work, but our developers are.

let's just say clients are increasingly choosing the (worse) fallback browser version of our service instead of the vibecoded and more and more broken app full of vulnerabilities. because at least the browser side has issues they expect and usually know by now.

but hey, new graph go up, right? ignore the old graph we cared about before.

Cant be creative if you have no soul.

Imagine you have to go on with a company name that is the worst failure in your company's history? Every time you say the company name, you are referencing what a loser you are.

the metaverse

But did you see the legs? Impressive.

The system prevents people this rich from going down. He could literally toss a coin on every decision and at the end of the year he will be richer than before. These people basically cannot stop themselves from getting richer.

And in prison.

The actual cost is a livable environment

Tokens are an AI context of units of text. Could be a character or a word. Why use the term tokens instead of words? Who knows. Maybe because some units aren’t words? The tech industry delights in creating stupid terms for things that already had terms.

Tokens are pretty much the compute used for one word, approximately, or some other information of a similar size. (Long words are two or three tokens each actually)

Then, yes those tokens are paid for with "credits" which is them gamifying the purchase lol