Astra is amazing.

My team supports 4x the infrastucture with 50% of the people with agents following human workflows.

They could literally clear all of the remaining Millennium problems and people would still be coping. This will happen.

Self reinforcement learning works, and it hasn't been about LLMs in a long time.

Hang on. Learn to hang drywall.

Cheers

The cope has been nauseating.

It works. Everyone onboard now?

Now it's about how it scales and how we optimize use and lower release cycle time.

Everyone agonizing over token costs doesn't understand the exponential cost decay.. and how are you going to compete with hyperscalers who have essentially unlimited, near-free tokens.

Buckle up.

Spicy autocomplete indeed.

Chuckle.

AI is real. The implications of this are not priced in.

We have codex 5.4 performing all IC2-3 tasks now with a higher success rate.

Laughing is about to stop.

Have a plan.

There will be no nirvana if you aren't literally sitting on billions in assets as long as our current oligarchy capitalistic system remains in place. Collapse in market value will even pull the previous generation that was able to accumulate some capital value into the abyss. The endgame will be the favela-ization of the US economy with a tiny aristocracy of unimaginable wealth controlling virtually all property and the government apparatus and military, and the rest of the population at subsistence levels. As long as that is what the "market" decides, no harm, no foul...

Go read some history, you'll find these same articles.

I just completely automated most of our IC2 and IC3 network engineering processes with GPT agents.

Not redid; the AI executes the same workflows and tools better, cheaper, and faster. Compressing months of work to two weeks.

It's real.

Seriously, it's funny.

The music is good too.

Apparently a lot of other people do too.

Political leaning and desire for children is heritable.

The left will elect themselves out of the population pool in time. It will accelerate as more people choose more traditional values and family structures.

The state needs immigration to counter this effect, but they didn't move fast enough in America.

This is the end, my friend.

I was close to retirement anyway. There isn't going to be another generation of people with the skills I have outside of hobbyists. They're just not needed anymore.

My first year tuition was $1500 CAD in 1994.

By the time I had graduated it was up to $4000 or so. I think it's $8-9k now. Decent school, not elite, but engineering is still altruistic and it doesn't matter that much if you're skilled.

Bought me labor mobility to USA and would be worth doing at 10x the cost.

There are few circumstances where a liberal studies degree is going to give you a return of any kind.. and the library is free.

Reality denier. Your reality?

You sound communist.

The broader trend is that there is a self segregation taking place. I moved to Texas. I love it here. You can be a communist in California and enjoy it there.

The market will sort it out.

A better question is should humans do any job that a computer can do better. Do you want your kids to be customer service reps?

These are big questions and we're going to have to answer them before we are ready.

The role of the AI factories is to train expert models that will be used on CoT inference pipelines perhaps on the edge or in collaboration with it.

Hang on. It's going to get wierd.

At least in my direct experinece, I've not been surprised by any of the cuts made that I see. AI is a likely excuse, but you'll find direct attribution from official sources scarce.

Most of these cuts are performance based. Companies are getting lean, and if you're not going to lean in or are in core business adjacent roles, you're on the block.

These things are related.

Make up a mental model when you will reject the doom predictions. We aren't going to stop producing CO2. It isn't thermodynamically possible. Yet the disasters don't materialize.

When will South Florida be under the ocean? If it isn't in 20 years, would you reconsider the rhetoric? 50?

Something to think about.

If you haven't, go for a drive in a Waymo. Or check out the most recent Tesla FSD software.

It is obvious that this is going to replace human drivers in a lot of applications and roles.

AI is real. Welcome to the terrifying future.