I was a senior software engineer at a reputable SaaS company before the final mass layoff. I hate LLMs, data centers, and especially the morally bankrupt CEOs.
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rumplestiltskin retweeted
I also wanted to pull out a special part of the piece: fuck Jensen Huang. By forcing customers to take early delivery of GPUs to boost quarterly revenues, he artificially inflated the price of RAM and every consumer electronic. He and his hyperscale paypigs are scumbags.
Free newsletter: In July, Apollo Economist Torsten Slok said that "AI better work out, or we have a problem."
Facing ever-growing high-interest debt, negative-EBITDA AI labs and $200bn+ in warehoused GPUs, that's exactly what the AI industry has.
wheresyoured.at/ai-had-bette…
rumplestiltskin retweeted
This is a bad sign, because people stop paying their car note last, for obvious reasons. Auto loan delinquencies going up mean people have tried everything else to get by first and are now at risk of losing their ride.
BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.
Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.
And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.
rumplestiltskin retweeted
Just spoke to a woman who was replaced by AI
Lost her $55k/year office manager job
She began to cry
I asked why she’s upset
“You should be happy- you’re now a proud beneficiary of a public trust that AI companies are setting up to benefit the public. You’ll make hundreds or even thousand of dollars several years from now when these companies start to make distributions, if they decide they want to.”
AI is helping people so much
rumplestiltskin retweeted
Another force majeure has hit the AI industry
Holy smokes - NextDC
From Bloomberg:
Nextdc Ltd.’s shares plummeted after the data center operator said it was considering force majeure options and cut earnings guidance as community opposition delayed one of its major projects in Melbourne.
The Australian firm revised its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization for the current fiscal year through June 2027 to between A$245 million ($172 million) and A$265 million, down from A$385 million to A$410 million, in a statement Wednesday.
rumplestiltskin retweeted
Want to know what SpaceX actually believes? Skip the speeches. Check the capex.
Last quarter the company spent $19.59 billion on capital projects. $16.44 billion of it, 84 cents per dollar, went to AI data centers. Power, cooling, compute, software buys. Q4 guidance: another $35 to $40 billion of the same.
The moon city would need closed-loop life support, habitat construction, radiation shielding, resource extraction on the lunar surface, agriculture in a dome. Whole fields of engineering that barely exist today. None of that is getting built. No program, no budget line, nothing.
Musk can promise anything on an earnings call. Money only goes where belief is. And every capital dollar at SpaceX says the future is a server rack in Texas. The fanboys can keep quoting the moon speech but the checkbook shows otherwise.
rumplestiltskin retweeted
The US affordability crisis is worsening:
Food prices have surged +34.5% since December 2019, now at their highest level on record.
Rent and grocery prices have risen +33.3% and +30.0%, respectively.
Furthermore, motor vehicle maintenance and repair prices have soared +55.2% over the same period.
Meanwhile, prices for services excluding rent, including medical care, transportation, education, communication, and recreation, have increased +29.2% since December 2019.
As a result, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen +30.4%.
Basic necessities are becoming increasingly unaffordable in the US.
rumplestiltskin retweeted
BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.
I can empty them all, and everyone who doesn't like the AI buildout and the threat to their jobs should be maxing the free plans out by having agents running in a loop. They have such a crappy business model, the more we use them, the more they lose.
rumplestiltskin retweeted
For those who know their history, a wave of busted + delayed/cancelled IPOs was the topping signal in early/mid 2000
It's a sign that capital is becoming scarce
And when capital becomes scarce, your boom goes bust
rumplestiltskin retweeted
Reality check:
It's very strange to me that otherwise sensible people think that AI companies will simply start sending out weekly checks to all 8 billion people in the world, within a few years.
Any company CEO or Board that did this would be violating their fiduciary duties to investors, and would quickly be replaced by leadership that doesn't betray its investors.
There is no plausible world in which AI companies will distribute most of their revenue to the rest of humanity, unless they are coerced to do so.
And who exactly would be in a position to coerce them, if they run everything?
2 years from now you will not work you and will not worry about money
you will get your cash payments from from all the major AI labs
think of it like 3-5 companies giving you a thousand dollar check every week
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No major AI labs have announced or committed to universal $1000 weekly cash payments or an end to work/money concerns by 2028. Discussions involve speculative proposals and limited small-scale pilots, not firm company plans.
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rumplestiltskin retweeted
Yesterday was Elon’s greatest magic trick.
It got everybody believe an amazing technological gap had just been made.
I got fooled too.
At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was so excited.
And don’t get me wrong , the technology, the precision at which the car did what it did, was fabulous.
However, it was not a car doing it.
And that is the true, Machiavellic genius of Elon.
There is no flying car.
There is no car at all.
It was an empty shell. As light as possible. No seats. Nothing.
Full of gas tanks.
With a maximum of 2 secs of thrust usage.
In other words, it was a drone.
A drone with a shell that looked like a car.
Imagine if it had been a square piece of metal instead.
You would have said “nice”.
The truth is, it is nothing more than that.
It was not the car that you will see in the street. It was just a piece of light metal, that had the same body as the one you wil buy.
The technology exists since a long time.
If nobody did it, it’s not that they didn’t think about it’s it’s because it is not sustainable.
It is not achievable.
So why were we fooled ?
Because most people can’t imagine the biggest entrepreneur and genius of our century would have put millions into a show and be ruthless enough to put a fake car in a demonstration with the goal of selling something that will have nothing to do with what he is showing.
It was a show. A spectacle. Pure manipulation. Ruthless, immoral marketing.
The whole “ socialism vs capitalism” or “Europe vs America” we are seeing is the result of a fabulously done propaganda.
The car doesn’t fly.
It never will.
Most importantly,
there wasn’t any car on that show.
But the brainwashed idiots that we are will rush to buy it, waiting for another two years ( 9 have passed already since the preorders), only to receive something that has nothing to do with what we have seen.
Expect the shell.
But in 2026, it seems it is what we are. Empty shells for which entertainment and lies are enough to make us dance like apes.
Porsche maybe didn’t do a flying demonstration.
But at least they will deliver exactly what they have shown. And it will drive better than any Tesla ever will ( especially if it weights two fugging tons).
My guess it the tech isn't going anywhere, but more specialized models that are far more efficient in a given domain become prevalent. Ironically, this massive investment cycle thrown at models that never had a chance of producing ROI at scale are going to disincentivize future investments in more capable models for a while.
A business is generally about self-interest, not public interest. Sure, there are non-profits, just like OpenAI, but we see how that game is played. I'm part of a number of pro-human organizations, I'm engaging in robust dialog, rallying votes, poisoning my data, and working on a general labor union. I'm doing plenty. What have you going in your bio? A giant dildo called "The Punisher" that's powered by AI?
If your neighbor bones your wife, would you just 'accept reality'? Acceptance doesn't excuse us from action. That's called losing. I don't accept any of this as inevitable. In fact, if humanity has 10,000:1 odds against it in favor of AI consuming all meaningful endeavors, I'd yet side with humanity. I guess one of us has resigned to fatalism and the other is willing to do something about it, and some of that includes messaging. I have a plan B, not that I owe you an explanation. I also understand how markets work. Elon's 'flying car' is not to be taken literally as a production option, neither was my statement about a trillion dollars. I'm well aware it isn't liquid. I guess one's person's label of 'victimhood' is another's advocation for unity against a universal threat. We will just agree to disagree. I hope your kids aren't dramatically affected by this. We owe it to future generations to preserve meaning, meritocracy, and opportunity. Yes, having a dynamic skill set is more important than probably at anytime in history, but it's also where LLMs fall short the most.
I'm portraying the reality that workers are losing careers because of AI. What a shitty way to respond to someone whose hopes and dreams were wiped out by AI. That's why November is going be the real embarrassment to certain people. If you can't respect that, that's a YOU problem, not a ME problem. It's also much more embarrassing to be triggered by my bio enough to make a statement about it. It would've been embarrassing if I was laid off because my performance wasn't up to par. I was a top performer and an AI leader within the company, but by all means, continue to spew nonsense and ascribe motives about someone you know virtually nothing about. I have every right to be pissed and resentful against an AI buildout that took my career and threatens millions of others. Being happy about it or neutral would be engaging in the cuckoldry you seem to take part in.
That's right. There are a few things we can do:
1. Attend any local data center protest that you can.
2. Use the models as much as possible, even just have them run in circles on the free plan. It sounds counterintuitive, but it burns compute and costs them money.
3. Poison your data. If you publish a website or any online content, look into software that creates a 'coal torpedo' for the training data.
4. Vote out any candidates that support the AI buildout.
That's right. We observe this in neuroscience. If the mind is purely a product of the brain, we wouldn't expect to find that focusing thoughts reshapes pathways in the brain. Even when insulating someone, the saying is "use your brain". The knower and the known cannot be the same substance. I've always been a passionate dualist, and I think if we're honest, the evidence overwhelmingly supports it.
