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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs (www.businessinsider.com)
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  • IBM's CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— and said that there's "no way" to turn a profit at current costs.
  • "$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest," Arvind Krishna told "Decoder."
  • Krishna was skeptical of that current tech would reach AGI, putting the likelihood between 0-1%.
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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

So far my direct experience with ai is

  • minor efficiency improvements as another programming tool. It can help with syntax, boilerplate, scaling out unit tests BUT IS NEVER. A FINAL PRODUCT
  • MAJOR time sink from junior developers who let ai run amuck without putting in the effort to make it work
  • TECH DEBT from hundreds of excessive unit tests poorly written for maintainability and with no added value
  • INSTABILITY from junior developers letting ai commit slop to the default branch, wasting my time trying to back out thousands of lines of nonsense
  • MISMANAGEMENT where I felt forced to run my writeups through ai to “translate” into something recognizably generated so I could fulfill mandates to use ai
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    OMG the mandates. We're got those too. It's ok to have the option, it's bad to have the mandate.

    I'm reminded of the criticism that middle management likes AI because all MGMT has to do is summarize and report up, something AI is actually pretty good at. And they think they're smart, so they think AI should be able to do other jobs too, except they're so detached from production that they don't understand how far it falls short.

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