Have you done an analysis of all his public statements on business ideas and compared them with reality? Me belief is it’s far worse than you are giving him credit for. How’s the car company doing? And self driving (that is: full self-driving where I can take a nap in the backseat). It seems like he’s bored with it, so, he’s given up. Now it’s robots. Billions of im not mistaken.

You should try not to buy into the whole “business bravado.” It’s tiring when it’s detached from reality. He think he’s being visionary. He’s not. His stuff is so unhinged, what I would call him is a futurist. Futurists are a dime a dozen. People have been writing books and spouting all sorts of wacky ideas like this for a century. Anyone can say “I’m going to make 1 billion robots, and they will do everything you’d ever want!”

You do realize that talk is cheap.

One tell that he’s got some issues: he’s always telling people that he’s sleeping on the office floor because he’s working so hard. Seems like he’s trying to impress just a bit too much.

But sure, at the end of the day, he’s on his way to being a trillionaire, and I am not.

Can someone shut him down for a while? I can’t remember where his switch is.

I know they dropped that motto long ago. I still find it both sad and funny.

It’s getting harder and harder to remain with their tools.

I do get value from YouTube to help with home improvement projects and electronics hobby how-tos.

But the level of crap that comes through. How do these guys take themselves seriously? Ads for get rich schemes, perpetual motion machines (some variant of ‘free energy’ devices), bitcoin, ed drugs, etc. I don’t have particularly salacious browsing habits. So I assume a lot of users in my general demographic are getting similar.

The guys at google love to think they’re changing the world, or doing some big useful tech projects. Face it, guys: you are just enabling a bunch of seedy con men in their efforts to fleece people. That’s it. You are no better than Craig’s list, or the back pages of various weekly newspapers back in the day. No different at all in terms of the crap you’ve become addicted to, and much worse in terms of your reach.

Seems like there is too much money out there.

Famously, they’ve been buying up residential homes and apartments at a torrid pace, with all the fun that will bring.

But they are also buying up small service firms like my plumber (and funeral homes, and insurance agencies, and medical/dental practices, and). My plumber probably has 100 employees. So, not tiny, but not huge, either. I knew the guy who started it. He sold out. I suppose I can’t blame him. First thing I notice next time I need help? Hourly rates doubled. Parts much more expensive.

I get these PE masters of the universe are going to buying and selling companies. It’s what they do. But can they stay off Main Street?

We will wake up 10 years from Now and none of the local businesses you use will be locally owned. I think that’s a bad thing.

Spare me any talk that they are providing some sort of efficiency service here. I bet my plumber’s business is well run. What they found was that they could charge a lot more for worse service. That’s all.

Well said. I agree.

I am consistently impressed with powershell. Yes, it is verbose sometimes. But I have been able craft some one liners that are useful, and ‘just feel right’ to me.

Tariffs are always and everywhere good. No one has better tariffs. There are no price increases. Prices have come down. Got it?

If Jassy doesn’t get on-script by the end of the day, he is toast.

No deviations from this world-view are allowed.

I’m shocked he could make such a juvenile error, actually. It definitely calls his judgement into question.

I disagree. I’m at a tech firm and all product groups have been instructed to add AI into their products. It doesn’t matter in which way. Any way. We just need something to say and look like we are doing something. So, get cracking.

I have had a single customer mention AI in the past year, and I’ve been on about 75 roadmap calls.

They re-wrote the social security systems in 30 days, didn’t they? Or maybe it was the US air traffic control system. I can’t remember. Well, whatever it was, I hear they are wicked smaaaht and specialize in things like this.

So says the Dell guy: We need one way -- simplified, standardized and automated -- so we can be more competitive and serve our customers better

Makes so much sense.

After a long career, all I can say is it is less important than you might think.

Let’s see where they are in a few years and whether it was worth it.

My guess: lots of heat and light, lots of short term chaos, followed finally by stabilization, followed by the realization they are only marginally more productive.

Best there is? I doubt it. They have never had the best of anything. When told they have the best, we usually find out later it wasn’t true. It’s happened that way so many times, I’m inclined to think that’s the case here.

What they do have is determination, and a willingness to sacrifice bodies during conflicts of all sizes. Which is no small thing for all concerned.

I live near a smallish nuke plant. 1500 MW. So, 4 more of these for

Just make it stop.

Ever notice how every damn company has some sort of summarization feature? Sure, I guess that’s what LLMs know best. Something about hammers and nails comes to mind.

Who cares?

Don’t forget the special vpn tunnel that sends your data, and any audio picked up in the local area to Xi Jinping’s cell phone.

What? And miss the best 4 years of my life?

No, it wasn’t all party time, though there was some of that. I enjoyed the coursework, and worked reasonably hard. Harder than many, but certainly not the hardest.

What did I get out of it? Good question. Certainly not a vocation. I was liberal arts. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. After all these years, I believe the most important thing I learned was how to think and write more clearly. You might say that should be high school, and it indicates the woeful state of high school education. I’d disagree with that. Regardless of my writing skills when I got to college, it simply made me better. That would be true no matter what my baseline was.

I also offer this free advice. I got into a couple of decent name-brand schools, But for various reasons, one of which was money, I attended my state’s flagship state university. I wouldn’t change that decision for all the money in the world. Of course, there were many decidedly average folks, myself included. But I also met some of the smartest people I’ve ever known, and I can say this after a longish career in tech in some big companies and startups, all with many smart employees. And, since the student body was large, and the budget reasonably high, there was always some fairly advanced things going on, 24/7, whether you were technically minded, into politics, sports, or just looking for the next big indie band.

Nothing says bubble more than that.