And what happens, when enough percent of the population has nothing to lose?
I’m guessing something like Hunger Games with robot enforcers to keep the peasants in line
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SonOfKyuss commented on Ask HN: What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? · Posted by u/SuboptimalEng
That's exactly my question.
If there are fewer engineers, then there will be fewer dev tool companies, and fewer managers, etc. meaning fewer Slack, Gmail, MSFT, Zoom subscriptions, etc.
Companies are showing good profits, but if every company downsizes, then every company loses... right?
So, what happens now? (To the economy, lets say.)
Likely some combination of feudalism and Oligarchy.
SonOfKyuss commented on Ask HN: What happens when AI doesn't need human tools? · Posted by u/SuboptimalEng
Why would AI need human tools? We need them, and if we delegate our lives and jobs to AIs, then we will be all alone. Do we want that?
Is it really delegation if we aren’t given a choice?
macOS
SonOfKyuss commented on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidi... · Posted by u/nickrubin
That's great, but LLMs are still not generating revenue.
They’re generating tons of revenue, just not necessarily profits
SonOfKyuss commented on Ask HN: Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years? · Posted by u/johnwheeler
As much as I would like my job to be exclusively about writing code, the reality is that the majority of it is:
- talking to people to understand how to leverage their platform and to get them to build what I need
- work in closed source codebases. I know where the traps and the foot guns are. Claude doesn’t
- telling people no, that’s a bad idea. Don’t do that. This is often more useful than an you’re absolutely right followed by the perfect solution to the wrong problem
In short, I can think and I can learn. LLMs can’t.
> telling people no, that’s a bad idea. Don’t do that. This is often more useful than an you’re absolutely right followed by the perfect solution to the wrong problem
This one is huge. I’ve personally witnessed many situations where a multi-million dollar mistake was avoided by a domain expert shutting down a bad idea. Good leadership recognizes this value. Bad leadership just looks at how much code you ship
SonOfKyuss commented on What they don't tell you about demand paging in school offlinemark.com/demand-pa... · Posted by u/fanf2
Doesn’t Linux support large page allocations for just this type of situation?
What stock pump, its cratered on the news.
That is curious. The market must not have faith in their ability to execute on their plans
SonOfKyuss commented on How America's "truck-driver shortage" freightwaves.com/news/how... · Posted by u/ilamont
You can't effectively teach safety regulations to foreign truck drivers if they don't speak a word of English.
Sure but that still gets back to training drivers and enforcing regulations as the core issue. We don’t allow people who can’t pass proper medical training to be doctors no matter how many undocumented people may apply.
I’m not sure if this is a good idea or not but at least it is an idea based on exerting market pressure instead of terror and fear. I don’t have nearly as much of a problem with this as masked agents rounding innocent people off of the streets. The biggest flaw seems to be the very likely scenario of it being used to give preferential treatment based on political views or straight up bribery