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Comment market saturation is a reality (Score 1) 107

More people are born
More people need work
More people are creative about what to do
More people see other people needing better tools
More people make better tools
More people become more efficient
Less people are needed for the existing jobs
More people struggle to find more creative ideas
Market demand in every major sector can be met without more workers

And here's the real kicker. The best place to find jobs right now is in making better tools... which reduces jobs.

Comment Re:I see no Ford option for me... (Score 1) 214

Having owned a couple Fords and known several folks that have joined the ranks of 'only if there's no other option,' it's usually the transmission. I tell people that if you lovingly maintain a Ford, and the transmission is makes it past 50K miles, then then it's going to be a great vehicle.

Comment Meanwhile, at Carnegie Mellon... (Score 4, Interesting) 193

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Wouldn't buy (Score 3, Interesting) 70

I am the specific target audience for these drives.

And ... they are a TERRIBLE idea.

Assume PCIex4 v5.0 for the interface. That's a theoretical 15.75GB/sec. To read this drive sequentially would take 4.25 hours.

This is so slow it's absolutely useless for AI. Assume for a moment I loaded 8 of these into a 1u chassis. 800Gb XDR InfiniBand would be too slow, a double link would work. But you would be better off building half-U trays with four drives and an 800Gb link.

That said, let's say you had half a rack of that. That would be 48x245TB or about 12PB. And remember this is performance storage, not reliable storage. Everything here should be treated as entirely volatile... it's just cheap/slow RAM, it's not bad.

I think overall, I would architect a similar system on 64TB sleds because with the exception of rack space and power (and the drives use no power next to GPUs), 64TB drives destroy 245TB drives in every way.

Once we hit PCIe v9.0 or so and 4Tb Ethernet or InfiniBand, then 245TB will start making sense.

If Micron wanted a serious product, they would have dropped U.2 in favor of Ethernet or InfiniBand.

Comment Stop hiring for the sake of hiring (Score 1) 59

The number of jobs are increasing, because the number of jobs being filled is rapidly decreasing. So, new job listings are often old job listings reworded to exclude more candidates.

If you have one or two good engineers (not programmers, not developers... honest to goodness engineers) who with AI can keep 15-20 tasks running simultaneously (the cost is GPUs and screens), you don't need to hire someone right now.

Companies want the best they can get. They don't want to fill seats anymore. If they already have a few developers, the LLMs are increasing their productivity 10-20x (yes, real engineers who learn LLMs and how to use them as though they're programming languages get that kind of gain), then they can hold out.

Here's a great one for you... I would never hire anyone without a great GitHub now. I want to see projects and I want to see both hand written code and LLM generated code. I want to see external projects they've patched to see if they can work on other peoples code. I want to see student/professional projects (things with deadlines) AND fun projects.

I'm in no rush. I will post a job, if I don't find someone great, I'll change the posting and wait again. LLMs will give me the buffer I need.

Comment Re:Anthropic _is_ the odd one out. (Score 0) 21

Google, Microsoft and Meta profit by open sourcing models. (more like hedges their losses)

OpenAI released shit models as open source and OpenAI and Anthropic are junk without gigantic caches from mass economy. The model is far less important than the cache. So, if Anthropic actually opened anything it would be junk too.

And I think the Pentagon should be legally required to make their own models. I think that depending on external companies for their most important technology is idiotic. The government should own and operate their own drone companies and their own AI companies. They should not legally be allowed to use outsiders that are easily influenced by external entities.

Comment I'll testify in favor of cursor (Score 1) 110

AI belongs in a sandbox on test servers. We don't use AI in production.

When a programmer is programming, they use an offline database and an offline server. When their code passes tests and code review, we push to production.

If you don't work like this you have no right to sue.

Comment Cross-discipline issues (Score 3, Interesting) 82

I have spent time with 9 neurosurgeons, 2 neurologists, 1 orthopedic surgeon, 8 general practitioners and over 50 nurses in 2026. There have also been 3 or more radiologists/neuroradiologists involved.

They all disagree on what is wrong with me or throw their hands in the air and say "I don't know" and another said "it'll heal in a few days, ignore it".

Here's the catch, the doctors all lack the ability to understand what is wrong with me. But as I collect information from each one of them and I upload the CTs and MRIs into the AIs and finally I have a doctor who isn't very good, but is not a specialist. As a result, I have a list of questions to ask the doctors to see if we can work on the problems.

As someone who takes 16 pain killers every day for months now, I want to get past this. I don't believe the doctors will figure it out. I believe it will be the AIs

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