Analysts are saying it can last well into 2028, simply because everyone else who is serious, tempered and well adjusted didn't promise the sky and the heavens.

The fact is, LLMs are here to stay and the world is building capacity. Unfortunately that means the consumer market is going up be fucked for some time more.

I have a couple from 2009 still chugging along. Seriously, for a little web browsing and basic YouTube. They're more than adequate.

Saying hi from my 2013 Dell XPS 13" laptop (8GB RAM).

No I didn't dig it out to make a point. It's my main laptop.

It's had Arch Linux on it for the last 13 years, and I haven't really noticed things getting slower. There are some websites that make Chrome chug, but if I stick to sensible ones things are just... normal.

Also still using my 2016 tower PC. The only thing slowly getting its way is new software using x86-64v3 instructions which I did not knew was a thing till the Mario Kart Wii PC port did not run :(

If it means anything, my current setup is a beheaded Samsung from 2019, with only 8gbs of (single channel) RAM and a shoddy i3 cpu, hooked up to a monitor like a goddamn Commodore 64 🫠

But personally, I prefer the Lorax that wasn't used to sell SUVs.

My latest build is a RP2040 bodge-wired to a microSD card, a speaker, and a couple of legacy connectors. It boots to MMBasic.

Where does one find more information on this?

I want to get a couple rp2040 boards made to make my own Sonos style active speaker system. One day...

"Even if the market corrects a bit" I think you have no concept on how large that bubble has become already. This could heavily impact the real economy.

After the bubble implodes it will become much harder to finance such data centres, never mind that it will be much harder to find a place to build it, even with all the corruption in the world.

As someone in the midst of being replaced by AI, it ain't happening. It's superficially great at my job but the moment anything needs fixing or changing its more work than if I (or a human in general) had been paid to make it properly in the first place. No real productivity has been gained or time saved, those costs have all just been kicked down the road. The only thing LLMs (specifically LLMs, narrow/specialist systems have legitimate uses) have really enabled is the ability to produce Bethesda levels of technical debt in record time.

Google lost 12% in a day, and everyone is just waiting for the first domino to fall

I don't think this is it, but we're seeing more and more signs that it's getting close