Batch cooking is the only way to have two working adults.
I love to cook though, so at home, one cooks the batch part and the other does a different meal for the weekend.
We think our cooking is much better than almost all restaurants we go (and we heard from others that our guests usually thinks the same).
there are indications that cooking and doing other house related chores are actually beneficial for the mind. Cooking is specially important.
I don't know the reasons as I only read parts of papers and posts about it, but it seems something related to human brain evolution, but I am no expert. If someone knows more I would be happy to know
Tldr; initially I thought we might be onto something, but now, I don't see much of a revolution.
I won't put intention into the text because I did not check any other posts from the same guy.
That said, I think this revolution is not revolutionary yet.
Not sure if it will be, but maybe?
What is happening os that companies are going back to "normal" number of people in software development. Before it was because of adoption to custom software, later because of labour shortage, then we had a boom because people caught up into it as a viable career but then it started scaling down again because one developer can (technically) do more with AI.
There are huge red flags with "fully automated" software development that are not being fixed but for those outside of the expertise area, doesn't seem relevant. With newer restrictions related to cost and hardware, AI will be even a worse option unless there is some sort of magic that fixes everything related to how it does code.
The economy (all around the world) is bonkers right now.
Honestly, I saw some Jr Devs earning 6 fig salaries (in USD) and doing less than what me and my friends did when we were Jr. There is inflation and all, but the numbers does not seem to add.
Part of it all is a re- normalisation but part of it is certainly a lack of understanding of software and/or// engineering.
Current tools, and I include even those kiro, anti-gravity and whatever, do not solve my problems, just make my work faster.
Easier to look for code, find data and read through blocks of code I don't see in a while.
Writing code not so much better. If it is simple and easy it certainly can do, but for anything more complex it seems that it is faster and more reliable to do myself (and probably cheaper)
As a developer for almost 30 years now, if I think where most of my code went, I would say, quantitatively, to the bin.
I processed much data, dumps and logs over the years. I collected statistical information, mapped flows, created models of the things I needed to understand.
And this was long before any "big data" thing.
Nothing changed with AI. I keep doing the same things, but maybe the output have colours.
Heh...I've worked for 25 years and basically I'm yet to put code into production. Mostly projects that were cancelled or scrubbed either during development or shortly after or just downright never used since they were POC/prototypes.
I think I've overall just had just 2 or 3 projects where anyone has actually even tried the thing I've been working on.
That holds true for a tailor, even expensive clothing items eventually wear out and get thrown away. They are cared for better, repaired a few times, but in the end, disposed of. I’d say that analogy holds up for 'traditionally' created software vs. AI-created software. Handmade clothes vs. fast fashion.
The code was just created to support some broader goal, which it presumably did much of the time. The value of those goals is where the meaning comes from.
A chef reflecting on their life would hardly lament that every meal they'd ever crafted ended up in the bin (or the toilet).
For me, there is concerning a flag about all of this.
I know this is not always true, but on this case, crucial folks say the margins for end user are too low and they have demand for AI.
I suppose they do not intend to bring a new AI focused unit because it is not worth it or they believe the hype might be gone before it they are done.
But what intrigues me is why they would allow other competitors to step up in a segment they dominate?
They could raise the prices for the consumers if they are not worried about competition...
There is a whole "not-exactly" ai industry labeled as AI that received a capital t of money. Is that what they are going for?
So my understanding of the situation is that, Crucial folks had downsized their factory production (see my other comments for reference perhaps) but then AI involvement started demanding chips just at the time their factory production was at their lows.
So now for these AI companies, they got tons of money to burn so they are willing to pay a lot more, so now crucial only have a limited supply of ram and the thing is there isn't much difference between AI chip and consumer chip but the margins of AI chip are super higher compared to consumer chip
So earlier they would sell consumer chips and AI chips as well but then the AI companies still demanded even more and they would get insane profits selling them so what they did (atleast crucial) is that they stopped selling consumer chips just to sell AI chips for profit.
> I suppose they do not intend to bring a new AI focused unit because it is not worth it or they believe the hype might be gone before it they are done. But what intrigues me is why they would allow other competitors to step up in a segment they dominate? They could raise the prices for the consumers if they are not worried about competition...
Well as a consumer, I certainly hope so but I think that these companies did this case because their have been times they were -55% in stock prices and its just cash making money device at this point and there is a monopoly of fabs with just three key players.
So the answer to your question is "money" and "more money" short term. Their stock prices are already up I think and a company really loves short term rising stock prices
> They could raise the prices for the consumers if they are not worried about competition
Well, would you increase the prices 3-4x? Because supposedly thats how much the AI chips from what I've heard are... And due to this, the second hand market itself is selling these at a close-enough mark.
I don't know but I hope that new players come in the market, I didn't know that this ram industry was such monopolistic with there being only 3 key players and how that became a chokehold for the whole world economy in a way
> Well, would you increase the prices 3-4x?
(Text below is quite long, let me say it here, you made great points in your answer!)
It seems they could. They not only single handed caused it to double or more without trying :/
Not sure if it would trigger other sorts of regulatory issues though
It is my impression that there is a fabricated scarcity of all goods.
That's a common practice in cloth retailers. In the 90s they thought for brand name and market share.
They noticed it was silly because they could sell half for double of the price and as this means less logistics, it also meant higher margins.
It is not a lunch free approach. Selling less means that you delegate at least the bottom portion of your clients to the market, and if there are options, they might just be gone.
That's exactly what happened with Chevrolet, Ford, etc. they stopped investing and when a new competitor appeared, even if it was more marketing than product, they lots rivers of money and barely can keep the fight on (except for maybe making a puppet tell others that there is no such thing as climate change, but that's something else)
Technology space right now looks like it. We already see major brands stagnation allegedly because they did all that is possible and it will take some time until some nouvelle approach to appear.
As a consumer, I want to believe this won't take long to settle but I'm afraid money is going elsewhere
Building a dedicated AI-focused consumer line is risky: long development cycles, uncertain demand, and the chance that today's hype cools before the product ships
Except for the money - the entire reason most people work everyday…
I’m 51, worked at two F10 at the time companies out of my ten jobs and hated them both - GE and 8 years later Amazon. I purposefully made the choice of pursuing a smaller company and ignoring constant outreach from Google (GCP consulting division). But let’s not dismiss the close to $100K diference I could be making than what I make now.
Also a 25 year old SA that I mentored at AWS three years ago is making the same as I am making. They are an L5 (mid level) and I am a staff consultant. They are pre-sales (no commission) and I am implementations.
I went from, if not scraping by, never really recovered from dot-bomb to a pretty good job at a medium-size public company latterly. It was "mostly" good. But the difference in money set me up in a way that I previously really wasn't (even if not top tech levels).
What matters is being (1) happy with your job (2) having an excellent life-work balance and (3) fair or better compensation. The rest is just fuel to the ego and it means nothing.
If you want to drive projects, do it at your own free time.
You are just a liability to the investors and that's why everyone actually wants AI
I know someone hit by a forklift because the operator didn't slowdown for the sections going out of the dark zones.
Forklift operators are careless all the time.
If you simply give them a chance by not being 100% safe yourself it might be fatal.
Forklift operators is, unfortunately, a job that needs go be taken by robots
It has in many cases already been taken by robots. Lots of warehousing is automated. But there are many situations requiring a forklift that are not well suited to automation. Basically anything that isn't dealing with neatly stacked rows and columns of shelves.
I worked night shift at steel processing plant once. Lots of my coworkers were walking around zombiefied. Forklift and crane operators were moving around 10-20 tons coils of steel and loading them into machines and people were paying no attention to them. Yes, the guy with 10 tons of product on his forks is responsible for paying attention, but the same rules apply as in traffic - right of way doesn't matter when you're dead. Pay attention and be aware of what's going on around you. Do not wear headphones!
Also CEO types on job sites, in my experience, often get to skip the mandatory safety course, because nobody dares tell them no and they feel big and important because they're wearing a tie and have shiny shoes. And these types need it the most, because they have zero experience working and moving around these types of places.
We think our cooking is much better than almost all restaurants we go (and we heard from others that our guests usually thinks the same).
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