When the name is worth more than the product, you know the whole industry is bullshit.

Jesus… I totally misread the article. I thought it was 6 trillion total, not 6 trillion yearly revenue. That’s so, so much worse.

We’re up to 8.3 billion people now, fam.

6 trillion / 8.3 billion = ~750

And that number has to be spread over 5 years since the target date to raise the 6 trillion is 2031.

750 / 5 = 150

But, like I said, that’s still just a conservative estimate that doesn’t account for the fact that the AI firms have astronomical operating costs to cover.

In order to make $6 trillion by 2031, every human being on earth would have to spend at least $150 per year on average.

Maybe that doesn’t sound like a lot if you’re already paying a $100 a month for a Claude max subscription or whatever, but consider that the vast majority of people don’t pay for any AI at all, and have no interest in ever paying for it.

Also, $150 is a best-case scenario where revenue is 100% profit. In actual reality, the profit margins are much, much lower, and may not even exist at all!

Given that the role of the modern senator is basically just to accept donations from monied interest groups and then do exactly as they say, one could argue that Fetterman is an extremely good senator.

That fact that this is one of the most grossly over-engineered websites I’ve ever seen really undercuts the point of the article for me.

It’s a fucking blog post. Not everything needs to have animated UI and fancy scrolling and interactive elements. Just let me read, Jesus Christ…

I think the point is more about forcing this back into the news cycle right before the midterms.

I use AI every day to do the typing for me, but not the thinking.

It’s probably going to take a few years, but eventually I think devs will finally realize that the typing is the thinking.

There are projects I worked on 5+ years ago that I can still describe in intimate detail. I remember the design decisions, I remember the concessions I had to make for technical or business reasons, I remember they connect to other systems, etc. Then by contrast I have code I wrote with Claude ~2 months ago and I can barely remember a single fucking thing about it… I did all the same planning and made all the same kinds of decisions, the only difference is that I didn’t write the actual code.

And that makes sense. When you physically engage with the code by manually typing, you’re creating connections in your brain that you don’t get just from reviewing it. It’s exactly the same reinforcement mechanism you get from taking physical notes during a lecture versus just passively listening. Physical engagement builds memory and sharpens understanding.

Two or three years from now, when all of the projects minted in the '23-'26 era have aged into ‘legacy’ status and the AI-generated technical debt has been left to proliferate unchecked, things are going to start breaking in ways that the LLMs won’t be able to reason their way out of. Maybe they’ll be able to ‘fix’ bugs as they pop up, but in slopified code fixing something in component A is inevitably going to break something in component B, and fixing something in component B will break component C, etc. Eventually you’ll end up with a disgusting, agentic ouroboros of regressions, and the only devs left in the industry will be wishing they hadn’t mortgaged all of their intelligence on short-term productivity gains — most of which only benefited the shitty tech companies that were so desperate to replace them.

There are plenty of idiots in any era.

Atlas Shrugged

it’s become too political

Become? It’s literally a political manifesto…

That’s great in theory, but there are tons of essentials that people have to buy to remain employed and/or alive.

Nice! I’ll just stop buying this enshittified product/service and switch to—

…oh, wait. They’re all enshittified.

“experts”

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but emotionally fellating egomaniacs is one of the only things that AI is fucking great at.

what am I supposed to be doing with my feet?

Brush and floss… is that not common knowledge?

We decided to go all-in on React Native back in 2020, and that bet has been extremely successful.

Love how tech CEOs always use the same gambling analogies yet simultaneously want you to believe that they’re actually the smartest, most reasoned decision makers and not just acting on vibes.

Eternal September

The US also has the most powerful police unions in the world, and they fight tooth and nail against every single reform you can imagine.

Someone needs to search that Judge’s hard drive…

Having used these extensively, I can say with confidence that they feel exactly as dumb as they are.