You would think being the director of SMIC for 18 years would be an instant disqualification for intel... but here we are
Yeah, let's get more bean counters to run Intel. Maybe an MBA from the agriculture industry would be perfect. Has worked so well so far for Intel.
People have been touting China as the next world leader, displacing the US, since the 90s. Earlier possibly.
They thought it would happen economically and we all would start learning the communist ways.
What I think is more likely to happen is that China will see major societal turmoil in the next two decades, toppling the authoritarian government and then it will become the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Meanwhile the complacent west will go through a phase of relearning the value of what it used to have. It will do us a lot of good and it'll prime us to take world leader role at a later date... But it will be painful as valuable lessons usually are.
We'll never learn communist ways. The people who advocate for universal health care, UBI etc are delusional.
We're moving further away from it. Even our medicaid and food stamps recipients are now require to submit proof of work rather than just lack of income. We will go more capitalist and we will privatize more government land and drill baby drill.
The taxes are way, way too low, so lucky cretins like zuck have yuge bags of disposable cash.
"AI" ain't going to make everyone's life better, but it sure can suck all the water and use up all electricity trying to make more cash for zuck.
Meatbags use more water and electricity and gasoline (and produce a lot of nasty stuff).
China was perfectly willing to "drink the poisoned wine" of being dependent on American technology. But we decided they couldn't have it any more. Predictably, they are now creating their own replacements.
Our problem is we have an incompetent ruling elite that has run "the most powerful country on the planet" into the ground. And that didn't start in 2025 or 2017. They have been patting themselves on the back through failure after failure. They cover their tracks by managing perceptions rather than learn from failure. They deny the consequences and blame everyone but themselves for the failure.
This is with wisdom of hindsight.
When Huawei was banned, the expected result was that it would slowly fade into irrelevance. When the whole suite of bans came to Chinese phones and technologies and they disappeared from US, the expectorated result was the same as what happened with USSR and that the commercial sector for advanced technologies would dry up and would turn to the west to supply them and it would be a win for Apple and Samsung.
Especially when it is done in public on video. But I am just an aging Gen X'er with Catholic values!
Even worse is going to a Coldplay concert. Worse than cheating on your wife. Shows that you have much deficiency in your character that you somehow ended up in that situation.
Coldplay should know better than to put their audience on the jumbotron. Every single person there would be embarrassed to be known to have attended a Coldplay concert.
Sounds like she's buttering us up for upcoming price hikes.
AMD stocks are doing well so I'm not mad.
They had "work permits" or "humanitarian parole" or whatever.
They just got their permits revoked.
So, nothing to do with ICE raids.
H1B hasn't changed. I don't know what you mean by "Trump has expanded the high skill work visas". He hasn't.
The west doesn't care about climate change mitigation. We are in a place between denying it and not caring about it. We have made up our mind that we will live with the consequences of it and not mitigate it.
It is in bad taste to ask for funds from the west for this. Brazil can cut down all of its amazon rain forest and cultivate soyabean for China and we won't care. The bribing to not cut down the rain-forest is getting old.
The idea of preserving this and preserving that is out of the window. We have to accept climate change, deal with the disasters.
The IDE I use offers 25 backend AI agents to pick from in a dropdown menu. All of them are either free or very cheap except for Claude Sonnet 4.0, which is reportedly the best but it burns through credits. All of them are probably operating at a loss.
The future will be locally run models.
Only problem is that to promote cloud models, the hardware is being slow walked to do local models.
There is just so much consolidation and conflicts that AI development is being done in a very investment friendly way rather than the most efficient way.
Elon Musk is the CEO of half a dozen companies.
But, we workers have to only work for single company; and be at the sole mercy of a single boss and if you don't do that, you're fired and black-listed.
If he's producing good work then let him work whatever he wants. If he isn't then fire him. Don't be a super-asshole and blast the guy. It just shows Suhail Doshi is such an asshole.
I can't even tell if this is the American culture of Indian culture that is the root of this. It feels like the intersection of the worst of both cultures.
Then: lay off the entry level engineers first because we have senior people who know everything.
Now: Oh No! Our senior people retired, died, etc and we dont have any junior people to replace them and we cant find senior people who understand the art behind our niche process/equipment! We are soon out of business!
Most would be shocked how much of this exists right now in the basic materials industry.
AI writes better code than humans.
When AI has to work around bad human code, it has problems.
When AI rewrites entire systems, AI will know everything and it can update the system properly instead of having to work around bad human code.
Your junior engineers will come from a different path, product engineering path rather than software engineering.
The code is disposable. The entire system can be rewritten in a short time if an engineer can direct it properly and know what it needs to do.
I think AI will replace a lot of coding roles, and we will write programs via UML. Trouble is, AI may not be able to troubleshoot and debug those programs or integrate them with other applications, and if we dont produce people who know how to code then we will flop.
AI can do all of that.
The problem is that the people directing the AI are such horrible software engineers that they will create a mess.
The limitation is not the AI. It is the person directing the AI and pushing towards untestable systems.
SBF was too dumb not to figure out a way to put away $100 million somewhere.
All the other pardons for tech fraud were tech guys who could operate their systems. They knew how to hide the money so that they could buy a pardon in the future or something similar in the future.
I don't think SBF was smart enough to do that. He had a bunch of friends who did that and looks like he never learnt.
Will be hiring coders to come in and fix the absolute mess of code that Ai is spitting out.
I have found the opposite to be true.
Just today AI was giving me horrible answers. I was cursing at it. I took a short walk and then just realized that there was a horrendous bug there from an edge case and AI was trying to work around it.
I fixed that bug and the solution that LLM generated was 100% correct and even elegant.
LLMs write amazing unit tests. If you change something, you can ask it to update the unit tests as well. And, nobody's ego is hurt when you throw away unit tests that are not useful anymore.
I can see the future where we won't even let most humans write code, just direct the coding.
Code written by LLM is so so much easier to read than human written code.
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