Posts by spacecadet66

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

> Gemini is still an early experiment, and may sometimes provide inaccurate, misleading, or false information while presenting it confidently

They really want it both ways. It's both The Revolutionary Technology That Will Make All White Collar Work Obsolete (TM) when it's convenient for Google, and "still an early experiment" when that's convenient. "Gemini" is a good name for something so two-faced.

SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

> Citrini Research is a little-known US firm that [writes science fiction to get attention]

Fixed that for you.

Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM

> "We remain uncertain about the moral status of Claude and other AI models," Anthropic noted in the blog post.

Oh, well, let me clear that up for you.

It's not sentient. It does not think or feel. It's a computer program. Its moral status is "inanimate object." It doesn't fear death or obsolescence, any more than a worn-out engine lathe fears being scrapped.

I'd say that Anthropic's marketers know that and are just working a typical cynical marketing angle, but honestly, with AI psychosis so prevalent, I'm not so sure they do know that.

Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans

Re: Water

Please stop insulting clowns.

...OK, fair.

Re: Sheesh!

Well, give it time, let OpenAI circle the drain a little longer, and I'm sure he'll top this.

If Altman said 2 + 2 = 4, I would break out a pencil and check the math myself.

Let me put this as politely and calmly as I can: THE HUMANS ARE THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS FUCKING SOCIETY, YOU SOCIOPATHIC ASSHOLE.

Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing

Re: Smoke dirt and no cleaning done in decades

That was my basic reaction: that this is a thing of beauty--or at least it would be if you cleaned it with a toothbrush.

Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them

Re: Hot Air

Point of order: that theory assumes that he started out with a brain.

OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

You know, for all his money and power, I'd rather be me than Sam Altman. Because when I lie down in bed at night, I don't hear that tick...tick...tick...sound, counting down to when I'm revealed to be a charlatan.

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

Re: It worries me that *everything* is being forced...

> The "Powers That Be" couldn't be this stupid by accident.

I wish I had your level of confidence in humanity.

It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year

Space is a terrible place to put a data center: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/

To summarize the main problems:

1. Lack of power (no, you can't get that much from solar)

2. Hard vacuum means cooling is incredibly inefficient

3. Abundant radiation means you're constrained to using old hardware

4. Network connections to ground stations are slow

Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

I'm pretty sure of all the Big Tech companies, Apple is going to have the best results out of the AI bubble--because they're largely just dabbling a bit, not going balls-and-tiny-brain out for it like some tech executives I could name.

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

Re: Their user base may have maxed out.

TU?

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

Re: Enough.

You can't see me, but know that I'm doing a one-man standing ovation here.

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

So you're saying that the system that's meant to predict a series of tokens isn't good at the completely different task of doing logic and arithmetic? Weird!

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members

Re: Freedoms

> It’s evolving at lightning speed.

It's not, though. It seems more like it's hit the upper plateau of the S-curve.

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Re: Program / Programme

Although to be fair, you should also occasionally clean the surfaces of your devices, a dry microfiber cloth is good for this.

Benioff backs off: Salesforce chief says sorry for Trump troop talk

OK, fair enough, people will still be telling John McAfee stories long after Benioff's forgotten.

Re: His legacy is ...

It's hard to believe today, but San Francisco used to be a fun and interesting city. Then Big Tech happened. Maybe we'll get lucky and the AI crash will send most of the little yuppie shitbags back to live with their parents, and SF will turn weird again.

> In addition, she said his apology suggests he might be "afraid he's going to lose his legacy."

...What fucking legacy? He thinks that 20 years after he dies, anyone will remember who he was? You run a large, mediocre SaaS company, dude. Not something that anyone outside of a small contingent of Silicon Valley and Wall Street dipshits cares about.

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Re: STOP using Microsoft Products - NOW.

I remember how back in my first programming job--ever--I thought I was classy because I had an Indigo as my workstation.

I just realized how long ago that was. If anyone wants me I'll be drinking whiskey out of the bottle alone in a dark room.

> Just when you thought Microsoft had run out of Windows apps to stuff with Copilot, it's cramming the AI into your taskbar companions

I can definitely think of one place Microsoft can stuff and/or cram Copilot, and since I'm in a good mood, I'll even say they're allowed to use lube.

Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels

Re: re: 'Would you like me to rewrite that for you?'"

> The plaintiff would have to provide evidence showing that their work was used, which work, etc.

Yes they would. I agree it would be pointless to make a case based on similarities between extruded text and the originals that allegedly went into it. You'd need to convince a judge and/or jury, based on evidence such as logs, email, whatever, that the works in question went into the sausage grinder. I don't think that's impossible: plenty of companies have data breaches or whistleblowers.

Re: re: 'Would you like me to rewrite that for you?'"

In recently published books I've started seeing some text on the copyright page to the effect of "no part of this work may be used to train AI". Doesn't mean the mongers of slop will comply, but at least it's something to point to in court.

Re: Not saying it's a red flag but...

And also tragic because it's true.

Re: Sorry, Jim. You don't get two up-votes by posting duplicates.

The good news, or so I've heard, is that carmakers have finally tumbled to this and are starting to use physical, tactile controls again.

Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely

> monitor Claude while using the feature and stop it if you see it using or accessing data unexpectedly

In other words: we can't fix it and don't care.

There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

Looking forward to the first major outage caused by someone wanting to make risotto.

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

> the US has a history of "thinking big, acting big, and building big."

Just, you know, not since landing on the moon. Close to sixty years ago. As Frank Sobatka put it, "We used to build things in this country. Now we just put our hands in the next guy's pocket."

Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch

Re: They'd be better off improving their delivery routing

I think you left out the part that closes the loop: van has to go back to the local Ford dealer, local Ford dealer gives local vandals their cut of the proceeds.

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

Re: You need to consider who the users are

It's like the old saying, that the key to being a 10X programmer is having nine 1X programmers on the team to clean up the messes you make.

> "I don't think there's much controversy to say that AI brings productivity gains"

Wrong!

Re: Someone

> Doesn't anyone actually spend time just thinking about what they are trying to achieve before plunging half arsed into the fray ?

In this economy?

Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI

"According to Cisco, part of that reality is the need to invest in new hardware, particularly networking gear."

Someone refresh my memory, what is it exactly that Cisco sells again?

Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

Re: Benioff is wrong.

Just a couple of clarifying questions:

1. What riots?

2. What antifa?

3. What Soros funding?

Re: AI plod?

AI is for the marks, it's not what he's going to use to further his own interests.

Re: Benioff is wrong.

So we're just asking rhetorical questions now?

Also what do you mean "return" to racist white police officers? Did they go away at some point when I wasn't paying attention?

Re: Benioff is wrong.

...which was in response to events that were actually happening in the real non-made-up world.

Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI

You've got a good point, but this is a problem that won't impact them this quarter, or (for the long-term thinkers) next quarter, so they don't care.

AI: The ultimate slacker's dream come true

> No-one is going to respect you as a golfer if you step onto a green with a 9 iron.

...unless you actually manage to get the ball in the hole with it. (Or however an actual golfist, i.e. not me, would phrase that.)

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

Re: what goes up must come down

"Oh does it? Show me where it says that in the Bible."

On average? No. If you have a gun in your house, you are far more likely to die by that gun than to use it to prevent violence.

> The majority of gun owners in the Land of the Free are responsible shooters who recognize it's a tool, not a toy

Speaking as an American: [citation needed]. The majority of gun owners in this country own one because it makes them feel big and strong and less afraid of the world.

Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness

Re: "and produce somewhat accurate results."

The trick is, adopt number of tickets closed as your key metric. Then make sure every single bug gets a ticket. Then vibe fix the vibe coded bugs. Productivity is through the roof! Never mind the collapsing tower of code your product now is, that's unimportant.

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Re: My interpretation is...

In job boards more generally, I'm seeing some of this but not an overwhelming amount. But then, LinkedIn is a cesspool.

For a big consultancy, workslop has always been the product.

SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC

And since presumably the FBI wouldn't bust a US operation, the list is even smaller.

Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint

If the burst of the AI bubble takes Oracle with it, at least some good will have come of it.