This is right on schedule matching up with the end of the dotcom era. Though back then everybody IPOd as soon as possible. Now it's just a bunch of Enron-esque circular deals with Theranos-levels of impossibility, so I guess one or two people will get rich, and a few companies will be left holding the bag.

And let's not forget that when they're asking for gigwatts of power they now have to wait for the power plants to be built, which are a little longer lead time than backup generators...

Things are bad enough the brokers are contacting every single hole-in-the-wall with a closet calling itself a colocation facility if they have space for a dozen or two racks with 100kW power requirements. That is, 100kW *per rack*.

So the companies that owe that trillion dollars are a trillion dollars in debt? What happens when this trillion dollar backlog just doesn't happen because the companies that booked it disappear because they can't service their trillion dollar debt? Sounds like it's time to head for the door...

At some point it can only be so cheap. The cost of churning out boards, packaging the things, and handling warranties and such puts a hard floor on the cost. They're making their billions in the same way Change Bank makes theirs.

So it's going to be someone's fap material that stops abruptly because the author reached climax before they could write down all the nonsensical words.

On the one hand, most SaaS solutions are just webified implementations of crap that would be better suited to dBase III on DOS. On the flip side, AI as it's being sold is SaaS in all its worst forms, except now its results aren't repetable.

...as long as they aren't one of the companies that bet the farm on AI...

Those companies will never recover. On the plus side, Windows 12 can't be any worse than Windows 11 if Microsoft died before Windows 12 was released.

I still use Fireworks CS6, and I'm glad it's still available in the CC subscription. And yeah, I'm part of the problem.

They also did the "we're killing it completely, oh wait, we'll just keep it on deep maintenance forever" for Muse a few years back.

Make real food expensive, then take away the cheap food.

Remember when people would panic when a P/E ratio was extremely high... like 6 or 7?

Daddy doesn't get a yacht for his yacht's service yacht for less than 2.00 billion.

The AI companies already booked and paid for the fabs, and once they go belly up, that already-paid-for service will start churning out apple silicon instead of no-longer-needed junk for companies that no longer exist for customers that never existed. Meanwhile, apple will still be charging thousands of dollars for something that cost them nothing.

Who gives a shit about the long term? Who cares about destroying our reputation? Who cares about the suicides, divorces, and dead kids. Gotta get a yacht for my yacht's service yacht, and this is the only way.

Those UI changes in the latest OS release...

The whole reason machine learning called itself machine learning was to distance itself from "AI" which was seen as a waste of money after the last AI winter.