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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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When I go to a Product conference and everything is AI I think: "ah, this is the people they were talking about when they said product was a fake email job."

I have to admit its pretty funny seeing clones of Adobe software and such even if its probably trashy, but still if it takes down Adobe then I won't be upset. But I feel like this is an example of value destruction if anything.

Have to wonder who would actually use these LLM generated clones of tools like Photoshop. Seems like they're springing up like mushrooms on a damp cow pat at the moment but how long before they're either abandoned, legaled out of existence or start to drift and lose file format interoperability?

It feels the same as Trump kicking the bucket. Obviously inevitable, but it’s been “any minute now” for so many years, it lulls you into the sense it’ll never happen. It’s like throwing a ball up in the air and it never falls.

Trump has access to premium healthcare which is reason you see in obituaries of Hollywood stars and rich people numbers like 85-90-100+. Something similar goes for AI bubble. Assholes marked by Jensen and co have access to the most of USA resources. Enough to make it right to 1929 crash anniversary.

One should be able to follow a supply chain end to end but with AI there would appear to be huge gaps indicating it has not been fully implemented. Imbalances at various stages in the chain.

I had a manager tell me this. We are now paying a ton of money, but without any ROI. We've basically been tasked with trying to engineer away our own jobs. So far so that has failed.

And I'm someone who will defend some usefulness from llm. I've done some interesting things with it. But it's not the promised panacea.

"Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493". I'm sure this has nothing to do with all the AI rev they keep booking. No sir, they found the secret sauce. It's not booking notes as revenue in exchange for compute! Stop asking!

Just watched you're interview on Yahoo Finance 8:30. It was going great right up until the 3 on the couch, who were probably 12 during the GFC, jointly stated the AI industry was too BIG to FAIL and should be bailed out by taxpayers if need be. WE HAVE LEARNED NOTHING. 🤕🤮

I think it is 'good' as in 'not as bad it could have been' because it suggests the worse of the crash after the bubble is going to be in US tech sector and far east semiconductor industry. As this crap hasn't been too widely adopted we can look forward to a shit but not fully apocalyptic recession.

I'm still not convinced of a payoff in tech. Any initial velocity from normalizing codebases & clearing tech debt inevitably hits a wall of inattention, forcing more validation/sign offs, such that any time gained is lost to that process, lest get slop through, then requiring costly emergency fixes.

No financial pay-off? They have everyone's money, and everyone's intellectual property they are allowed to steal, and here they are saying they are not going to pay the investors. Seems to me someone is getting paid.