we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
Most academic economic pundits treat this bubble like the dot com or Railroad mania bubble, even though it’s more like Enron with a touch of GFC.
They are thinking that after a crash, there’ll be all this infrastructure laying around like the aftermath of dotcom.
Railroad and fiber optic infrastructure last something like 30 years. Data center components last 1 to 3.
There is no there, there for whatever survivors to swing in and pick up infrastructure for pennies on the dollar
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@davidgerard I agree that a depressing to rival the Great Depression is coming, but the ultra rich are not going to suffer like they should.
@effariwhy @davidgerard what could we do to make them suffer?
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@ploum @aaribaud @audunmb @tante see yesterday's Pivot, model collapse seems to be visibly hitting ChatGPT https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/06/openai-chatgpt-goes-goblin-mode-let-none-say-model-collapse/
@davidgerard @ploum @aaribaud @audunmb @tante
Goblins, huh? I can’t help being reminded of Alexi Sales saying here comes the lobsters!
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
@davidgerard I think the idea that the bubble will pop is the optimistic viewpoint. I think it's more likely we will increasingly see money and resources poured into AI technologies for the next 5-10 years, either through promises of growth or government buy-ins/bail-outs.
If the AI bubble goes away it won't be with a pop, but a gradual decrease in growth until it levels.
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
They will not hire the people who know how shit works.
They will try to make the few remaining such people clean up all shit, en passant.
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@davidgerard @ploum @aaribaud @audunmb @tante
Goblins, huh? I can’t help being reminded of Alexi Sales saying here comes the lobsters!
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ploum @aaribaud @audunmb @tante openclaw, duh
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
@davidgerard I think they'll just outsource to whoever firm can say they fit that description of still knowing shit, but of course there's not a single consulting firm that hasn't gone AI-First
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@davidgerard I think the idea that the bubble will pop is the optimistic viewpoint. I think it's more likely we will increasingly see money and resources poured into AI technologies for the next 5-10 years, either through promises of growth or government buy-ins/bail-outs.
If the AI bubble goes away it won't be with a pop, but a gradual decrease in growth until it levels.
@distrowatch @davidgerard Look at the finances involved. It's a classic case of circular financing. It'll pop. My estimate is sooner than David's.
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
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@distrowatch @davidgerard Look at the finances involved. It's a classic case of circular financing. It'll pop. My estimate is sooner than David's.
@distrowatch @davidgerard I think he's about right under the assumption of a more or less constant underlying economy. But I think everybody's finances are about to get a lot worse.
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
@davidgerard they'll hire half the workers back (amongst those who haven't disappeared to go goat farming in the woods) and tell them to deliver at twice their normal output (perhaps with shittier local models) until the remaining programmers also decide to go goat farming in the woods
lather, rinse, repeat, until the loss of good programmers combined with the existential crisis of climate change makes large scale computer work obsolete
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@effariwhy @davidgerard what could we do to make them suffer?
@Reinald @effariwhy @davidgerard Accountability would be a good goal to start with. Alas, with their capture and dismantling of the U.S. govt, that accountability isn’t coming from the U.S.
The E.U. Is understandably in a defensive mode but will take limited action, mostly around banking.
That leaves China, which as the US’s largest creditor is likely to get involved when it’s clear the fascist kleptocracy in the US will prevent repayment of what is owed. China had a plan before Evergrande imploded; they probably have plans for us too.
I would just like for us to stop killing people and arming other people who are killing people, please.
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
@davidgerard lol yeah a lot of people seem to be pretending this wont happen the same way all these tech companies pretend there would be free effortless economic recovery after 2020 that never came and now they have to pretend the layoffs are because of ai
no one wants to just look at the numbers and conclude what they convey.
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@davidgerard They will come up with a bullshit job name for "shoveling the shit left behind AI" like Automation Output Enhancer and then hire a bunch of recent CS grads and other Gen Z'ers who are desperate for real work for $45k/year and convince them that 60 hours a week is normal.
@MichaelTBacon @davidgerard C'mon, you know exactly what comes next.
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@davidgerard @audunmb @tante I wonder if there are any programming languages that are so obscure the ChatterBots don't know anything about them? *Breaks out the SNOBOL manual.. *
@davidgerard @audunmb @tante BrainFuck FizzBuzz has defeated Claude, or at least proved a bit too complicated for it to cobble something together via free credits.
Please ignore the massive data centre fire in .NL. Nothing to see here! Move along now...
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@audunmb currently it's still heavily subsidised, and training is expensive so the local models will only go out of date.
I originally thought local LLMs for coding would be what LLMs were left with after the bubble pop, but @tante pointed out they'll all quickly go out of date.
We already see current maintained chatbot models have a habit of putting in unfavoured, obsolete and even deprecated code constructs cos that's overwhelmingly what the model was trained on.
@davidgerard @audunmb @tante I'm pretty sure Chinese companies have the money to subsidize getting full control over every business process, every project plan, and every single line of code of US companies a little while longer.
After that, it doesn't really matter what those US companies want or don't want to do.
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
@davidgerard@circumstances.run I would not be surprised if the AI bubble pop ends up being worse than the great depression. I've moved the majority of my investments over to cash and bonds
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@DBG3D @davidgerard i tried to ask it something simple yet weird enough it couldn't just regurgitate from examples, i can't tell if it's good or not, but feel free to have a look https://chatgpt.com/share/69fc916c-aee4-8333-9534-7f76f1a78687
Oh no, no, no, nooo...
It was a sarcasm
️ Indicating that FreePascal maybe is the last multiplatform compiler language free of this #AISlop.Furthermore your link only opens a white clean session of that hell site. But do not bother to find out why.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I would not be surprised if the AI bubble pop ends up being worse than the great depression. I've moved the majority of my investments over to cash and bonds
@PurpleStephyr @davidgerard just an FYI corporate bonds are worthless in bankruptcy.
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we joke that when the AI bubble pops and the managers can't afford the chatbot any more, the surviving companies will hire the people who know how shit works to clean up
but this is of course optimistic. observed behaviour is that they will instead do the stupidest and shortest-term thing they can do instead of ever doing it properly.
so what do you envision this might be?
for clarity, i think when the AI bubble pops, which I place as some time next year at the latest - and you can hear the screeching noises in 2026 - the current recession signs will turn into a full Great Depression 2, so those surviving companies will also be doing not so great
They'll contract with Accenture and IBM to 'rebiild and modernize' and end up paying double what they were per AI agent (about triple what they were paying per original employee).
