This might run deeper and farther than the DOGE. The so called AI, besides being proved as not that revolutionary to business bottom lines (MIT studies), has also been a major reshaper of the job industry. There will come a point when the merry go around stops. Thatâ(TM)s when the trillions of dollars invested in the AI boom is going to bust. Companies like CBA are crooks and wanted to get rid of their aging staff blaming AI. But there are behemoths invested in AI seriously believing that it could transform their business, just about to find out that it wonâ(TM)t. Being a dot com bubbler, this scares me a bit

Western societies are largely transforming into Asian ones (and might get there in a few years). With an inability to support fertility rates, frantic pursuit of GDP and a pretence that immigration is beneficial, are going to hollow out the western culture and establish the Asian way of life sooner. Everyone, including the immigrants, would at some point realise that the western life is a mirage: canâ(TM)t have a family, no home, endless debt and a govt who seems to be doing everything to destroy the society while claiming otherwise. And when they realise itâ(TM)s too late, the next set of immigrants arrive, rinse and repeat.

Qantas is screwing customers and employees in every conceivable ways.

Can AI replace a studio or all of the studios? In that world all other businesses also would be automating. The consumers would start tightening their purse due to massive lay offs. Inflation becomes deflations. Interest rates go negative. I can only think this much !

So true. The Silicon Valley is twisting what the invention here also. By constantly hyping AI, they are giving out an impression that autonomous thinking machines are a corner away. The best LLMs we now have is decades away from what they are projected as. I am not undermining the value of LLMs, but we need to take a good look at what it is and how it can progress us forward. Its utility is definitely not for eliminating jobs or saving cost. It would add to the economy and scale of conducting businesses in the future. We need CEOs who can dream that dream( not the bunch of shareholder kissers)

Itâ(TM)s when the AI comes! What we now have are some glorified string generators. If the CEOâ(TM)s plan is to use them and replace human workers, then we are loudly walking to one of the best depressions in history destroying industries.

Most of these hiring managers know squat about business or tech. We all saw their competent hiring in the COVID times. They are In great hesitation because everyone else are, and in doing so they are handicapping their companies in short term and the industry in the long term

The glorified AI around are only pattern matchers. We are not going to find AGI for another 50-100 years(even more). The current situation is nothing but a bubble that Is going to come back and bite us soon. But we already have invested billions and trillions into this eventhough we are well past the wins. This is going to be a lot painful than the dot com bust.

Yup. This is it. This was the line that needs to be crossed to walk out of online forums or social media.

Besides these I think the nepotism and opportunism has eroded the quality of people substantially in the industry. I know several top brass computer engineers sleeping rough outside the industry or at low rung jobs while artists, photographers, lawyers etc adoring the program managers and director or VP roles and proudly setting the strategy and roadmaps for the companies and industry. What a world!

The disconnect I often see is that the world is thinking that Trump is taking the wrong path while Trump is trying to change the path itself. Report after report talks about the economic or monetary losses the tariffs could cause, and yet he comes out coolly with not concerned at all because in his mind this is a total transformation and not a deviation. This wonâ(TM)t stop here and will run its course to whatever it may end with.

Good observation. There are all sorts of divides in India and casual racism is quite common. These days a common broad divide is based on religion and most of the minorities get the stick from the Hindu Majority in India and now abroad as well. The funny thing is Christians are a minority in India and they get actively sidelined even in a Christian majority countries like US by Hindus(of course systematically and nicely with a smile).

Where does pigs stand in this equation ?

I got to say this post is getting increasingly interesting. Better than any other I read in slashdot.

Not necessarily. Microsoft , if it ever feels shortage for patents, can always buy other companies who have those. As far as the OS goes, they already have a lead in the business, and the best strategy for them is to copy original works from other competitors and provide them to their wider customer base.