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What’s the point of it all? (Blind)

• whywhyx2 (Meta): There is no meaningful work in any tech company anymore
• kuCr03 (Amazon): The point is to create the dystopian surveillance state that your descendants will eventually rise up and overthrow… it’s nice to have a hobby.
• mb121: AI writes code. I don’t even review. Don’t understand anything. I just prompt again even for a small change

The burnout is real (Blind)

• pJSL17 (Apple): I don’t understand doesn’t AI makes your day to day a lot easier ?
• blahblahra (Amazon): im 100% convinced i have stress brain. i forget things easily now and have brain fog most of the time. speaking is a chore and i can no longer handle stressful quick thinking situations. it sucks
• BayArea408 (Cisco): Based on my 30+ years of experience in tech (HW side) I definitely feel like AI and all of the related design process automation that comes from it has killed the joy of engineering. The first 15-20 years were great, then it became okay, even the pandemic years were still fine (and more productive) but the last year has sucked so hard, it’s not worth it anymore, I’m retiring before this year is over.

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem for Utah (r/technology)

• r3d0c3ht: Why does this feel as hoax to me, “We’re building a $4bn datacenter the ludicrous humongous datacenter to rule all datacenters but it will take us forever to build it, anyway, give ca$h now!”
• Bupod: We will PRETEND to build the mother of all data centers, and the Mormons will pay for it! And when the bubble pops, we simply ride off in to the sunset!
• Standard-Square-7699: It is a hoax. The gpus alone would cost 10s of trillions. Some reditor broke it down a day or 2 ago.

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (r/technology)

• Big-Chungus-12: Im glad I havent supported this company financially, vote with your wallet people
• AvailableReporter484: Tbf this company should be obliterated from space
• williamgman: When Intuit decided to drop desktop support… That was the kiss of death. A lot of independent bookkeepers are retiring out end of this year as they are being forced onto the online app only.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year (r/technology)

• Knightforlife: Can’t read the article so … why? Does SpaceX have a bunch of data centers for rent I don’t know about?
• Resident_Window_9369: All these massive numbers are pure speculation based on unbridled optimism and full disregard of reality
• Luka77GOATic: It also is a significant boost to SpaceX, whose annual revenue is only around $18 billion per year.