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At least according to Ed Zitron, they only appeared profitable due to creative bookkeeping. They timed the announcement of their shitty “annualized revenue” to coincide with the few months of vastly reduced rent at the datacenter Musk rented to them as well as the shift to token based billing for enterprise customers. Their inference is likely not profitable.

I do on occasion. I was very frustrated when I learned that left and right comes as naturally as up and down for most people.

Having dealt with mountains of frontier-LLM-generated slop from once-good senior engineers, I’m feeling pretty competitive.

I use one of those every night and they’re awful. I buy them 5 at a time because they’re not very durable, and you end up with this especially irritating tangle of cables.

Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.).

Should we?

If you want to use your own power and not give it to the grid, then don’t use a grid tie inverter. Get some batteries and only accept power from the grid, never feed back into it. If you’re feeding into the communal system, expect the rules to not always be exactly what you want. Don’t we all want people to use clean daytime solar power instead of dirty fossil fuel-based nighttime power?

I will continue to pray for Slate to not completely suck. There’s a “smart” module that has a cellular modem, but it’s something you have to opt into and pay for it.

Only possible AI thing I see is .zed in the .gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.

Try putting two spaces are the end of the line, or leave a blank line between each line.

two spaces at the end
of the line test.

blank line

test.

Man, they need to hold another vote to get the verbiage of this cleared up.

The title of this post is incorrect. They are not banning cryptocurrency projects. See this message for why: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19923979

edit: man, I have no idea anymore.

What do you mean? His hair is glorious, especially for someone who is 66 years old.

OpenAI has a trillion dollars in financial obligations they need to meet by 2030. I doubt Clear Channel’s financial obligations were in the same order of magnitude.

I’ll say that given the way OpenAI and Anthropic have hideously overextended themselves (they have over a trillion dollars of financial commitments to companies like Oracle), it’s not impossible that the current crop of American LLM providers do just kinda… poof away. Traditional banks want nothing more to do with them, they’re getting majorly spooked. All that needs to happen is for private credit to lose confidence in them, which is already happening. When they’re out of cash, they’ll be on the hook for an absolute ridiculous amount of money and they’ll probably just get liquidated.

I’m sure there will be new companies that pop up, but they’re going to have to charge 10x what Anthropic is making enterprise customers pay, since inference likely still isn’t profitable at the price Anthropic is charging.

I don’t use LLMs as a knowledge base because if the problem is bad enough for me, I’m likely just grepping through kubernetes source code or something. That being said, I don’t necessarily have an issue with folks using an LLM that way as long as they fully understand exactly how bad it is at what it does. You’ll be fine if you lose access to LLMs, and that’s the number one thing in my book. Your friend? Not so much.

(As a fun bonus to all of this, Oracle is very likely to die if OpenAI can’t meet its commitments. Either way, Larry Ellison will probably stop being a billionaire, since almost all of his wealth is in Oracle stock).

The speed and ease at which LLMs allow you to generate code is a bug, not a feature in my opinion. In my org, a group of 3 very junior engineers wrote a 5k line shell script for building k8s clusters according to our business specs and it’s fucking awful. The actual time to get it out the door was short, but now it’s basically impossible to change it without fucking up like 20 different things. The fucking thing will randomly quit because the shit ass LLM thinks set -e is a good thing to use, and it’s full of unused variables everywhere. I had to add a feature to it (which is how I learned of its existence), and I spent a miserable week just reading the entire fucking thing so I could ensure that my change wouldn’t cause an oil refinery in the North Sea to explode due to a butterfly-effect series of bullshit.

The frustration and toil you feel as a software dev is a feature. If something is making you mad and is taking forever to write, that’s a sign you probably need to change your approach. If you’re using an LLM to write a bunch of boilerplate, why not just eliminate the boilerplate or like, make a factory to spit out a bunch of it or something? Your discomfort is a powerful tool and you are not best served by ignoring it. Those junior devs would have written something much better if they had been forced to experience the true toil and suffering of writing a 5k line shell script.

I saw a video where a guy just shoved a $1 carabineer into the door latch to defeat this.

EDIT: Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6VBnUla58

I like the way you think. I think more of life’s second-order problems should be solved with blinding lasers.

How do you ensure that the room is empty, 100% of the time? Those disinfecting light bulbs don’t have the same level of risk as this laser system.

Metro 2033 is so good, you’re gonna love it. He wrote such a fever dream of a novel.

Is your container using BusyBox? if so, then it’s not even real wget, it’s just the disgusting awful busybox version.

God I hate BusyBox.