Nobody thinks taxes solves everything, and there is definitely an entire party platform built on _never_ raising taxes. The opposite of what you think isn't what they think, that's some kind of projection, which conservatives are famous for.

You have to pay for nice things, for anything. Sometimes you can solve a problem by buying less nice things. Conservatives are intensely focused on cutting nice things, increased spending on wars... Every. Single. Time. and of course in the face of cuts and overall increased spending - lowering taxes. Not even leaving them be to pay for SOME of their spending but paying LESS while spending more. It's become as predictable as the sunset. I can play out both sides of this until I turn blue, it always points to bad faith arguments about fiscal responsibility, and a concerted plan to repeatedly shock global energy markets and funnel money to energy and defense, and leave the rest of us to pay for it. It doesn't look like anything else.

Bro that's capitalism, what drives our GDP. When we try to do it responsibly by adding in environmental costs the magays cry communism or socialism or antifa.

What part of this tariff scheme targets environmental planet anything policy, none of it, because that would be antifa.

MAGA arguing to retard the economy to save _the planet_ with inflation is just about the dumbest thing I've heard in 24 hours. These days, that's an achievement, bravo DarkOx.

They will, they won't. Start blaming the fucking tool already because you're stuck with it.

I've worked with monitoring and alerting software of different stripes long enough to see the same pattern, the tool is somehow blameless for data quality issues when we all know damn well the data quality problems can be traced back to UX design of the tool. We're stuck with it anyway and that's the go-to defense. I've seen too many people give software, the tool, a pass because getting accurate data in and maintaining it, owning it, is the hard part. Well no, fucking, shit, the tool's developers know that, and bad software design is always the user's fault, we're always holding it wrong.

Who owned that data entry, for a suspected murderer, with what, plates and no description of the car or driver? That's like setting a bear trap in a busy campground. Don't worry, it's for the bear! I'll just mark a X on this bubblegum wrapper with some squiggly lines, and forget about it. Were they watching it, does the tool enable that, does it enable the level of ownership that is required for anything that dangerous? Were they aware of the first police response? Was the second team of responders days later aware of the first team's response? Was the owner of the alert? Bad data entry? .. and this information system is fine right, don't blame the tool. Bullshit.

We could easily spend a few million more years living in houses made of sticks and stones and do other cool things but not do any of that. It feels like a very bad extrapolation.

Mmmm... if we're going to nitpick terminology, Claude code or codex in a container with access to your GitHub repo is a typical AI sandbox. Anything from a dedicated Mac-mini to an actual container in the cloud running a coding CLI is what comes to mind.

This is a type of shared, multi-user AI sandbox, and that's probably where the idea to call it OS comes from. It's dumb, but I get it. So a centralized MCP configuration, shared skills and prompts, shared agent configs, some kind of centralized knowledge system and scheduled discovery processes, event driven hooks, in one spot with corporate governance. I've never touched it, but I think I get the pattern.

Fair, it's an AI sandbox, I don't have a better name for them, this is new stuff. For comparison, Amazon has something called AWS DevOps Agent, same concept of a shared agent sandbox with all the features I listed but they bill it as "your always-available teammate that spans software change and operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-prem environments." *gag* cut through the marketing and it's another multi-user AI sandbox, they say devops, but what's a devops LLM? No such thing, and their harness is neat but not remotely specialized enough to really nail it down. Nothing indicates this cloudflare one has a particularly specialized harness environment either, you plug company data and services in, your monitoring tools, jira, incident management, logging systems, etc and share useful prompts and agents with each other, have agent threads spin up in response to customer complaints, code commits, doctor's notes, whatever.

Bad names and descriptions aside, this is very likely what enterprise AI services will all end up looking like, so it's worth a glance at least.

We make fun of people using an LLM to spellcheck an email, yet here we are asking a human to define a common word, right?

Curate means you choose what goes in. Like monthly.xls orgchart.doc and context, for example, "This field means employee is NLE, unless they were a contractor, then it means the contract ...". This ain't rocket AI neurosurgery my dudes. Anyone can do that individually with existing tools, but what Cloudflare is trying to do, I guess, is make it easier to do that from one place and share with the company. Like Jupyter/run book type stuff but with LLM, probably. Just guessing but that seems kind of obvious to me.

No you're conflating very different things, this "tokenmaxxing" crap is some Microsoft/Amazon/Google/Meta scale thing where we have our own data centers dedicated to AI compute that could be seen as a wasted investment if not driven at 100% usage. Maybe some startups going balls to the wall at $API rates with someone else's money, but that is not "a lot of corps"

Then you have rando fintech, edtech, *tech adjacent business paying $20/head a month for office workers to have AI access because that's what all the other cool kids are doing. There you have Sally from Accounting turning bullet points into emails because the CEO said everyone should be using AI. That is a lot of companies, and what Sally is doing is not insane. Neither is putting a $20/month high value information tool at everyone's fingertips and encouraging its use to stay competitive. That is not the craziest thing happening in IT, ffs. A lot of that usage will go down the same way online video training services that the company bought and encouraged everyone to use.. queue up an Intro to Java video and go to lunch to show you used it. This isn't REMOTELY the same thing as "tokenmaxxing".. some AI subs will get dropped, a lot will stick, because it is genuinely useful every day for a ton of people.

You aren't forced and you aren't subsidizing anything, you're being priced out by people who want something more than you do and they're paying for it. It's supply and demand. It's like living in a gentrifying neighborhood, I don't know what else to tell you but nobody owes you a damned thing here. When people with more money than you do buy up all the inventory that's what happens.

Jesus dude, if we were actually talking about housing prices or closer to the issue, electricity rates, I'd have a little empathy for you, and I do think people are owed affordable housing and power, and other essentials etc, and there are ways of addressing those during spiking market demand.

But your PC parts, your PlayStations, I mean fuck off, I guess you've never lived through hard drive shortages, ram shortages before, $2000+ basic desktop PCs, internet access by the minute. Even if you think AI subscribers aren't yet paying for the full cost of AI services, you aren't subsidizing a damn thing unless you're the man behind the scenes providing private equity to some AI service provider.

... when in the past twenty years has replacing data center equipment been more economical? I don't get where you're coming from. We write down deprecation on IT equipment, that doesn't mean its value changes. Servers got bigger and bigger while workloads stayed about the same. It's what allowed VMware to grow into the behemoth it became. It also made replacing physical servers less and less necessary. You can run them well past their support life and replace only when truly dead or unreliable, or give up and virtualize it finally. The last big spend money to save money in IT WAS VMware. Well maybe it was mid tier SSD arrays replacing enterprise spinning disk ones, but anyways.

It's kind of like you're talking about depreciation of a minivan vs the value of a minivan full of cargo where every new day you sell a run full of cargo it's exactly as valuable as yesterday which was as valuable as it was on day one. Selling inference compute is like the selling cargo space, I mean sure you depreciate the equipment for tax purposes, but every day that thing runs 100% is money.

Catching up is great but there will still be a premium for higher and highest quality outputs for a long time because the bar where we all agree "this is smart enough, I do not need more intelligence" is really fucking high and will take us a very long time to get there.

Another threshold is when you can run an acceptable level of output from a local system that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. But then why would you not back that up with the highest quality remote model, pay the subscriptions but not rely 100% on them. Use a model router or toggle it. That only does those companies a favor and I don't see that going away until you hit that other stupidly high benchmark of no more intelligence desired.

I mean no amount of temu lawyers will make the best legal representation cheap. All Anthropic and OpenAI have to do is continue to slowly leapfrog each other. The demand for good inference isn't going away, and the demand for better and best isn't either. But yah one way or anither these valuations aren't going to math out in the end.

Our former FBI director is currently facing federal charges for posting a picture of "8647", apparently regarding a president that has already been impeached twice. The allegations are that 86 is a call for violence and not impeach and remove from office for example.

Mental gymnastics and fascist knee jerk solutions are kind of this administration's whole thing. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Maybe do a bit more research.

The moon has a left wing bias to these folks, because if it's not a very narrow and unintelligent subset of American culture, then it's woke or left wing bias or something like that.

Why the fuck shouldn't you be able to sell a book for more than five years. Authors do that AND continue to write.

If you're looking at it as if they will be forced to make money somewhere else and you'll have more creative works because lazy writers will now be forced to write more and more to make enough money from writing? That most definitely will not work out. When do authors stop writing, for fuck sake man, you didn't think that through all the way did you.

Holy fuck people complain about sequelitis NOW, eeeeezzzuz... In no possible fucking way does your plan increase creative output. That's all you'd get is increasingly more derivative slop, more and faster.

Yah I mean eventually I was going to ask a remote server about every little problem on my computer so it might as well just take a full copy without my knowledge, fuck it yolo, hahahaha. Why would just the chat transcript on my screen that is obviously sent to the server be the boundary, copy everything else too, same diff.

My point is we have lots of utilities that use remote servers to do work, and it's generally understood that the inputs sent to the server are now on someone else's computer. An AI model is no different than how "itranslate.exe --spanish lemonade stand.txt" might work. There's no excuse for copying everything else to some server along with the actual request, that's malware plain and simple. There may be a fine line between that and say you working on *.txt without thinking it through all the way, but that is a very solid fucking line.

JFC, it's even worse, it's like running itranslate.exe in interactive mode and then having it send all your files out because you asked how to say hello in Spanish. Imagine hearing dickheads on /. say well... the translation services are online so ... the fuck you say?!?!

I would say we can chew bubblegum and walk at the same time, but that is definitely not even a technical problem in need of a technical solution.