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@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange · 11 hours ago

I am LOVING seeing so many AI projects being paused or binned.

There’s one silver lining in the mass layoffs, they can’t lay off their absurd investment in power, cooling, and hardware. Loss adjusters and liquidators are rubbing their hands with glee.

Also, many silicon spinners are demanding 5 year agreements on production. It’s go big or go home time, and there will be some casualties.

One org I reluctantly work with pivoted their entire operating model to AI and agents, and they royally screwed their staff over.

They’re not hiring them as consultants at twice their original salary as everything fell on it’s arse, and who knew that go to market suits with a prompt can’t keep infrastructure or business running. Hilariously I know one engineer negotiated a one-sided 12 month contract notice period.

These people are going to get desperate, fast. Fetch the s’mores and let em roast.

Alexandre Oliva

@lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br · 7 hours ago

@baldur@toot.cafe, here's some hopeful evidence to counter a hopelessness thread you started the other day

@gpshewan@mastodon.social · 11 hours ago

@SecurityWriter I’m still saying 2H this year when things start unravelling

Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social · 11 hours ago

@gpshewan @SecurityWriter That’s what I’m thinking, too. It’s almost as if you can smell it on the air. The stories CEOs are telling about AI have shifted subtly, which makes me think they know what’s coming.

@gpshewan@mastodon.social · 11 hours ago

@ramsey @SecurityWriter For me it’s not just that, it’s the cost/revenue and ancillary stuff that folk just never think about. The environment, ethics, society impact, security and whether it does what it says on the tin are one thing (and valid). But when the sums don’t work out and confidence shifts…there’s no stopping that.

Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social · 7 hours ago

@gpshewan @SecurityWriter That’s what I mean. The CEOs are already beginning the shift to spin what’s coming, to make it more palatable to investors, because the bill is about to come due, and the promises haven’t been kept.

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@minus@jena.social · 4 hours ago

@ramsey @gpshewan I hope you‘re right. I am seeing a lot of frustration with the lack of delivery but at the same time in our org management is doubling down after Claude has been better at delivering and it is hailed as the turning point when it finally is starting to be as good as we need it.
And in some ways it’s true, I still need to do handholding and lay out the design but the coding part is much more reliable. The productivity increase is maybe not 10x though, more like 2-3x.

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