"Productivity"

They added legs to horizon world!

THEY ADDED $221,000,000 to the GDP every month!! see, the economy is doing great

And they achieved… what exactly?

I sometimes wonder whether AI is just a way to launder money at the same time as burning the planet.

Got more work done that doesn't matter and also atrophied their workers mind.

Right? I haven't noticed anything change, everything is as buggy, slow, and difficult to use as it ever was.

The app is falling apart. From marketplace discussions the link back to the listing is mostly broken. The app crashes frequently. Images and video will glitch back and forth by several pixels, randomly.

I think they are doing a massive study on how automating code production kills products. It is a brave move and I look forward to the papers they publish when the company folds.

May have proved senior engineers are more effective having a team of agents rather than a team of junior engineers

Doubt that is the case, but that is likely what all these middle managers expect in these companies

Management has proven to the board that they're using the technology everybody in corporate likes. They'll surely get a bonus for that. And once it's obvious it fails they'll lay off thousands to compensate for the billions spent and get a bonus for the thorough cost cutting. Then hire a bunch offshore to get work done.

There is some quite hot water now, don't talk that down!

Edit: ah, another one was first...
Should read the comments, but sometimes the urge is overwhelming...

Wasted some water, electricity, released some heat to the atmosphere…

I would imagine the answer Meta execs would want, would be “effectively microtargeted advertising to those most likely to buy the product, creating sales for our advertising clients and allowing us to charge them more”

Going through massive sets of user data to figure out which of them would most likely be interested in a product does sound like a plausible use case for AI

I don't work for friendface but I do not use AI with good intentions.

They have their own models, it depends on a teams manager and a few other constraints if they are required to use them or if they are pestered to use generative models at all.

I'm betting that cost is just the cost for the token usage and nothing else.

Meta is not using their own models internally because their internal models are far behind the state of the art.

This is why Zuck is in a frenzy too, trying desperately to catch up, failing consistently to actually do so

corporate elsewhere too. it's all for The Metrics, to see usage and adaptation go up. i'm not required to use it at work, but our developers are.

let's just say clients are increasingly choosing the (worse) fallback browser version of our service instead of the vibecoded and more and more broken app full of vulnerabilities. because at least the browser side has issues they expect and usually know by now.

but hey, new graph go up, right? ignore the old graph we cared about before.

https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn

Yeah! Those numbers sound absurd

We've been seeing posts of people using AI for stupid stuff because their bosses wanted to show their bosses that they were all in on AI.

Now that they've effectively churned the waters for effect, the companies have realized that - Surprise! - there was no result. Now they want AI used for real stuff, which is what they should have been doing in the first place. Companies got way out over their skis way too early on this one.

And the AI companies made billions, and they're still broke, and years away from profitability, if ever. And viability, if ever.

The system prevents people this rich from going down. He could literally toss a coin on every decision and at the end of the year he will be richer than before. These people basically cannot stop themselves from getting richer.

Tokens are pretty much the compute used for one word, approximately, or some other information of a similar size. (Long words are two or three tokens each actually)

Then, yes those tokens are paid for with "credits" which is them gamifying the purchase lol

Tokens are an AI context of units of text. Could be a character or a word. Why use the term tokens instead of words? Who knows. Maybe because some units aren’t words? The tech industry delights in creating stupid terms for things that already had terms.

Someone tell madame toussaud her museum got robbed again

And in prison.