What you correctly observe as shortsightedness and unwilligness to make compromise are side effects created by our economic system. Competition for profit and capital literally creates the short horizons. If you don’t make the money for me this quarter, I’ll move my capital to your competitor who would. Your stock price falls and with it further falls the ability to raise capital to fund profit generating ventures and products. As a board and CEO you know that so you set appropriate quarterly profit targets and your exec layer cascades those down to concrete measures down to the junior devs. If your competitor introduces monthly profit targets and executes them consistently, you’d have to match as capital us going to start moving towards your competitor because your quartetly plans would look risky in comparison. Worse, when I say competitor, that’s any firm producing profit, not a firm in your product market. Basically any firm that takes capital from capital markets is in competition with you for capital.

My point being it’s not a culture or individual (group) behaviour thing, it’s structural systemic drive that can only be solved by structural systemic changes. It’s not a new occurrence either. It’s been moving in this direction for decades, it’s just gotten painfully obvious for most lately.

you would simply enjoy the increase output of your existing workforce or maybe even hire more people for even more potential growth.

This assumes there’s the aggregate demand needed to absorb your increased product output. If there are no more sales or higher prices, it means workers would be sitting doing nothing for longer due to the increased productivity. The moment that becomes apparent, the exec layer would cut the workforce so that fewer people produce the needed output for 40+ hours a week.

Zuckerberg, in contrast to Gale, has said outright that AI is making some hiring unnecessary. “We’re starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person,” he said in the January earnings call.

“AI won’t replace us, we’re just going to be working more productively with AI” said the useful software engineer, naively parroting Big Tech’s corporate PR.

Everyone should be reading Marx.

Yeah. The 80b Coder-Next runs at about the same speed on my hw too. I don’t know if it’s any better than 3.6 27b.

Take good care of your hw! It’s not like 2 years ago when you could buy stuff off the shelf for reasonable prices. :D

Am doing something related at work as we got the directive to actively use AI, so I might as well use the best model available, which happens to be very expensive. It’s also not so smart for our work so I have to kick it multiple times… What can I do, it’s part of my performance objectives now.

Been using Qwen 3.x for a while now for local LLM with search capability. The 3.5 and 3.6 ones are great and run very fast.

Not suddenly. It’s been going on at least as far back as 2001. Probably more. It’s generally not the gov’t either as the gov’t is mostly driven by moneyed private interests like large corporations. They always push in different ways to get more power to make profit. Get rid of a regulation, make new regulation, get a subsidy, limit rights to resist some abuse, etc. Sometimes it’s just more obvious that others in general, or it’s in an are we personally pay attention to, and we’re like WTAF.

A friend got in trouble for letting her kids play IN HER SUBURBAN BACKYARD without her watching them. A neighbour called the authorities.

F-150 Lariat supremacy

Can confirm. We used to play till 10PM (cause we had to wake up early for school) around the apartment bloc and around the neighbourhood. In the pre-cellpone era parents would call their kids from their balconies to come home. At the height of organized crime that arose post-1989, people felt that safe about their kids playing unsupervised.

It seems like they’ll be selling a chassis kit for uprading from existing 13.

It’s their mistake. Proles are noticing.

In a capitalist market economy with a small public sector, that’s definitely the expected outcome. In fact it would be worse than you describe. It’ll produce big problems with the ability of the economy to consume its production since people rely on wages to buy that production. Wages that woild go away due to automation.

In a mixed economy with a very large public sector, public co-ownership of large private firms, and 10% of the population (and growing) being members of the party that controls it all, the outcome may be different.

Is this a potential alternative to Open Web UI?

People who used AI tools for hints and clarification had a much easier time once the chatbot was removed when compared to those who used the bot to essentially prompt the answers.

Probably important for people who want to get some of the benefits of AI without paying the heavier costs. This reminds me of how I used Wolfram Alpha understand solving integrals in multivariate calculus. I paid for subscription that allowed viewing the steps it made to reach a solution. That helped me understand how the different strategies get applied in integration.

This is the intelligent non-invasive way to implement this. Basically using a similar cryptographic signing scheme as SSL certificates. We’ve known how to do this for decades.

The government’s plan will offer a one-year, renewable residence permit to undocumented migrants. In order to be eligible, applicants must prove that they have already spent five months living in Spain and have a clean criminal record. They have between 16 April and the end of June to apply.

If they have the same labour rights as the rest of Spanish workers this would help boost wages across the board as most migrants wouldn’t be used as cheap labour anymore.

If so - well done.

Not necessarily Big Tech’s AI, but “a program” that can automate this part of the PR process. I’m not interested in a program that gives pointless or bad suggestions. I’m interested in a program that can spot pattern X which I always say “this is bad because Y” and print that for me. If it were easy to write a classic program to do this, I would have written it. If that’s easy with LLMs, I’d train my local Qwen or whatever to do it. Not a faceless corpo that runs this on gas turbines, poisoning people around them and lying to me abt how much it costs me.

Is the NHS run like the Environment Agency?