Nah, they want everybody to only use their robotaxi too.

layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts

Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.

Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.

That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.

Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.

Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.

Tales from the field:

One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.

One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.

Like that time they asked Peter Thiel if he thinks the human race should survive, and there was this long pregnant pause.

AI works, we lose our jobs.

AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.

AI sorta kinda works, wages get depressed and things turn into a dystopian hellhole.

Not that much reason to be positive and he doesn’t know how to fix it.

Huang doesn’t have a solution for the very real risk of job displacement

And then you have Lock-picking Lawyer bypassing the smart lock in seconds.

I’ve lived long enough to go through multiple AI winters. This is just business failure as usual.

And they’ll probably shut down the AI servers in a few years for cost reduction making the whole thing a huge waste of money.

Around 500 flavors.

Without scams, spam, slop, bots and ads, facebook would be rather empty.

As far as I found, it doesn’t always work with adding the driver afterwards because Nvidia apparently, and some distros leave out the older stuff.

Finding a distro that worked with my ancient Nvidia was a challenge.

Funny enough, the only thing that works is AI generating YouTube fanfic videos about bosses being awful and receiving karma.

To avoid the doorman fallacy, companies must recognise jobs are more than the visible tasks listed on a job description.

It’s why malicious compliance and work-to-rule actions are pretty devastating for a company. You got to assume AI will act with malicious compliance, or at least hallucinate and lie about it.

You also have a Bluetooth FM transmitter, so they phone audio becomes just another reason station. You can even get a Bluetooth remote control for common media functions to put on the dash.

It feels like the elite are doing one last big haul before they’re out of there, looking for new regions to exploit.

It was not unexpected. Most big powers in history end like that. The rich always want more and eventually start taking it from everybody else, even if it’s detrimental to the future of the nation.