I think there may be opportunities coming out of its inevitable collapse. Part of the difficulty for any radical movement has been that any success gets co-opted or integrated; nothing remains ours. A positive response to the collapse of the "AI" bubble would have to be concerned with things like authenticity and human dignity, with resisting that co-optation.

In cyberpunk, the point is the oppressed survive. We want thriving, not just survival, of course.

There are also the reactionary responses, fantasies of return to an idealized past. Fascism is a species of reaction, that embraces aspects of the new, but older forms of reaction will likely become more prominent.

I imagine decades to come will be filled with grief and profound loss, but some hope if we work towards it.

(Note: I saw exactly this happen back in the 90s.. so there is an existence proof)

I have some optimism here that we won't actually lose all the programmers, because so many of us do it for the fun and the intellectual challenge. There's little of that in letting an LLM generate bad code on your behalf. So the programmers who are left will be the ones who genuinely enjoy it - probably a lot of hobbyists and open-sourcers alongside industry devs who have enough job security to resist using LLMs (which they know will just get in their way).

You would need a more expensive model to ”jump over the hoops” of your legacy codebase, that breaks every time the context window is compacted.

i know jane street, a finance firm famous for being an OCaml house (and making ungodly profit), was disappointed by the support last year or so, and trained their own models, but they ar. very much a special place.

People who want that will have to invent them after the bubble pops.

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).

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.

After that, it doesn't really matter what those US companies want or don't want to do.

Please ignore the massive data centre fire in .NL. Nothing to see here! Move along now...

no one wants to just look at the numbers and conclude what they convey.

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. ️🪷

lather, rinse, repeat, until the loss of good programmers combined with the existential crisis of climate change makes large scale computer work obsolete

In the US, there is going to be a huge shift to land and mineral speculation in a major socioeconomic & public health crisis―with zero regulations. Full blown guided-age thievery.

People want to buy the United States for pennies on the dollar.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/440353/the-world-for-sale-by-javier-blas-and-jack-farchy/9781847942678

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.