Some some manager saved a few 100k in some quarter and received a fat bonus and a recommendation for promotion for this!

Fully confirm your assessment here. Bought an Intel Arc B580 last year in hopes of doing AI inference on a standard PC running Ubuntu Linux. It never worked, regardless of what I did, and I say this after 30 years of experience with linux both privately and in my job. Whatever I compiled according to instructions either crashes or just doesn't recognize my card. Yes, you read that correctly: Intel's software didn't recognize my Intel B580, which is shown correctly by lspci.

These crashes are later addressed in pull requests on their github, so I am clearly not the only one experiencing this. I could kick myself in the nuts for not getting a 3060 back then.

You don't find them. They find you.

If you look at modern trucks, they are very much fashion statements. 30 years ago trucks were basically sedans with the rear converted for maximum transport capacity. In the meantime they have grown massively in size (without adding much utility), and look like kinder garden kid's dream.

1. Claim to have lost 6.3B. Replenish 90%

2. Repay the remaining 10% as promised.

3. ????

4. Proft!

I love conspiracies!

Imagine what these 4MB of binary code must have cost to produce. Apply this reasoning on the viability of closed source software.

Yes, we can see by your post, that Yandex appears to be at least somewhat operational.

I don't think anybody credible claimed, that attacks on Wildberries would destroy Russia, but these attacks did have a measurable effect on their economy. Hitting the economy with 1000 cuts was the main idea behind this and similar attacks, and it's ongoing.

Hitting the economy is a viable strategy, remember that imperial Germany had sizeable parts of France under occupation for 4 years, no part of Germany was occupied, but their economy eventually faltered in 1918.

How did you arrive at the conclusion, that a deviation of less than one standard deviation is automatically insignificant? While some feminist studies may indeed be crap, I would not trust your knowledge of statistics to make that determination.

Getting into an accident doesn't mean being the cause of it.

That's a nice summary of El Nino effect on Western USA, but the real issue will happen in South Asia and Pacific regions, in which draughts of epic proportions are predicted, bringing food insecurity to some of the most populated countries on this planet.

And the more you measure, the more you find! Aren't you already worried by last year's numbers? Why ask for this year's?

When they get hit, they will blame you for the bug, and for pestering them with this booooring computer topic. They will also claim to have cooked the perfect spaghetti aglio olio e peperoncino, to which you will be kindly invited between 6 and 8 on a specific date next week. Sorry, they are fully booked on all other days, and there is a TV show they can't miss after 8 on that day. After the spaghetti they will escort you to their now dead Mac ...

Every generation has done this, including mine, but not with a 45B valuation. It's utterly insane, how much people willingly threw at a successful gambler.

What am I trying to sell you? Access to frontier models, that I have no control over, that I don't work for but work with?

The great thing about AI assisted architecture is, that you can start at a very coarse level and refine from there. If a lower level design stage discovers a flaw in my thinking, I can go back up. The biggest difference between AI assistants and a design team is, that the former will never go "please not this dummy again", if you show up with yet another "additional feature I need" or "how about we look at it this way and change the structure a seventh time?". You won't do this on purpose, but these things do pop up in a design phase (ideally there). AI assistants also have a much larger context window than my rotten brain, so they will reliably detect conflicts between header files and some far removed design spec of yours.

You can bounce a project for months (while doing other stuff) before you are happy with your design and can proceed to finer grained design steps or even code generation. It's almost a perfect match for submarine projects (which nobody would ever shill for, since "nobody has ever engaged in such a project").

UML was an attempt to do the same thing with people, but it's very hard to get a group of humans to do, what you can easily do with a few AI agents. As a result I have never seen a software project draw any real benefit from all these UML charts large companies just love to churn out.