Can you say where you read about Russia suddenly overcoming patriot systems
Readit Newsvarispeed commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
varispeed commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
It's not the trade war, but the fact US administration is run by Russian assets.
E.g. it's pure coincidence that few months into Trump's rule, Russia suddenly can overcome Patriot systems.
Basically US industry is compromised and nobody with brain cells is going to buy American weapons any time soon.
varispeed commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
Full disclosure: I'm currently in a leadership role on an AI engineering team, so it's in my best interest for AI to be perceived as driving value.
Here's a relatively straightforward application of AI that is set to save my company millions of dollars annually.
We operate large call centers, and agents were previously spending 3-5 minutes after each call writing manual summaries of the calls.
We recently switched to using AI to transcribe and write these summaries. Not only are the summaries better than those produced by our human agents, they also free up the human agents to do higher-value work.
It's not sexy. It's not going to replace anyone's job. But it's a huge, measurable efficiency gain.
What’s the actual business value of a “summary” though? A transcript is the record. A tag or structured note (“warranty claim,” “billing dispute,” “out of scope”) is actionable. But a free-form blob of prose? That’s just narrative garnish - which, if wrong or biased, is worse than useless.
Imagine a human agent or AI summarises: “Customer accepted proposed solution.” Did they? Or did they say “I’ll think about it”? Those aren’t the same thing, but in the dashboard they look identical. Summaries can erase nuance, hedge words, emotional tone, or the fact the customer hung up furious.
If you’re running a call centre, the question is: are you using this text to drive decisions, or is it just paperwork to make management feel like something is documented? Because “we saved millions on producing inaccurate metadata nobody really needs” isn’t quite the slam dunk it sounds like.
varispeed commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
The funniest part isn’t that AI hasn’t delivered profits. It’s that the only “value” most people got from LLMs was accidentally rediscovering what Google used to be before it turned into an ad-riddled casino.
Executives mistook that novelty for a business revolution. After years of degraded search, SEO spam, and “zero-click” answers, suddenly ChatGPT spat out a coherent paragraph and everyone thought: my god, the future is here. No - you just got a glimpse of 2009 Google with autocomplete.
So billions were lit on fire chasing “the sliced bread moment” of finally finding information again - except this time it’s wrapped in stochastic parroting, hallucinations, and a SaaS subscription. The real irony is that most of these AI pilots aren’t “failing to deliver ROI” - they’re faithfully mirroring the mediocrity of the organisations deploying them. Brittle workflows meet brittle models, and everyone acts surprised.
The pitch was always upside-down. These things don’t think, don’t learn, don’t adapt. They remix. At best they’re productivity duct tape for bored middle managers. At worst they’re a trillion-dollar hallucination engine being sold as “strategy.”
The MIT study basically confirms what was obvious: if you expect parrots to run your company, you get birdshite for returns.
varispeed commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
When did this happen - first corporates where wary of using AI generated code due to copyright concerns and now we have full embrace?
I guess we are not yet in the phase where everyone will be scrambling to find competent engineers to clean-up the AI mess in their codebases?
varispeed commented on UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption theverge.com/news/761240/... · Posted by u/iamdamian
It's great that they're dropping it, but concerning that it was only because of pushback from US politicians.
Also important to note:
> With the order now reportedly removed, it’s unclear if Apple will restore access to its ADP service in the UK.
The backdoors might still go ahead. What if backing down is just for show?
In the end they don't have to let public know, but this information serves a purpose - potential suspects might now think it is okay to use now and fall right into the trap.
They would pay better than fast-food. So, I think so.
When we started shipping manufacturing jobs overseas people in power would say that the future was in service jobs. Ha! What a joke. Every population has a bell curve distribution --i.e. not everyone can work toward being a high value-add service jobber.
We manufactured high end handsets (Motorola) stateside till roughly 2014. Sun manufactured workstations in the East bay. If you go back further Cisco and 3Com used to manufacture in the South bay.
It was better than working at Mickey D's. So, yeah, we'd want these stateside. Better than having people out in the streets strung out on drugs not even aware their lives are going down a whirlpool.
Everyone since Obama paid lip service to bringing back manufacturing jobs --they were doing this to pretend they cared about the blue collar folks Clinton, G "H" W and G "W" sold out. I blame Clinton the most because he just let China ascend to the WTO despite knowing the Chinese had loopholes allowing them to ignore much of the conditions. "W" just didn't care.
The economy is going downhill, precisely because we have no manufacturing and investment funds are in full asset stripping mode.
In few years there will be no one to buy said services and everything will implode.
It's painfully obvious if you want to make something in very much any western country. There are very few firms you can subcontract CNC work or PCB assembly. Then the costs are so high, your product will be dead on arrival price wise, but also there is lack of skill and capabilities.
Unless you are dealing with companies that supply to the military, you'll get poor workmanship and months long lead times. Might as well just give up or...
Just subcontract work to China. Sure, there is many crap suppliers, but once you find good ones, it's another league in very much every aspect. Parts take days to deliver, not months and are top quality.
I think many people don't realise that we are very much in the middle of shit creek and without a paddle.
varispeed commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec
LinkedIn isn’t a professional network, it’s a slave auction with a newsfeed. Workers line up to show their teeth - “failure is just learning in disguise”, “kindness is leadership”, all that drivel - while hoping to be picked by a master who won’t beat them too hard.
The algorithm is the overseer. It doesn’t want insight, it wants compliance: claps, congratulations, and endless oatmeal platitudes that prove you’ll play the game. That’s why your feed is full of garbage. The mediocrity isn’t a flaw, it’s the commodity being traded.
Anyone looking for substance is in the wrong marketplace. LinkedIn is about teaching people how to smile wider while the chain gets tighter.
An administration acting as an asset would:
- Dismantle alliances (undermining military cooperation, trade disputes, questioning mutual defence).
- Give concessions without return (walking away from long-negotiated agreements, reducing deployments unilaterally).
- Sideline national security and intelligence professionals who oppose the adversary’s interests.
- Stoke domestic instability that distracts and weakens national unity.
When these patterns converge, you don’t need classified files to hear the smoke alarm. My point stands: U.S. weapons are a hard sell when its own foreign policy works against its strategic interests.
Btw. Your command of English is very good, comrade.