Post #2162885
2026-04-26 00:48 UTC
@sidereal For some reason an industry with a long history of fads and "revolutions" that either fade or do succeed but retain real issues, is particulaly hostile to questioning on "AI". Way more so than the no-code tools of the 80s-90s, the OOP push, Java/JVM, that weird Map-Reduce fetish, blockchain, etc.. This feels more...desperate and intense?
Weirdly, I feel the big tech that DID change everything (the web) had/has healthy and considered skepticism among the hype the whole time.
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@sidereal@kolektiva.social 2026-04-26 15:08
@swiftone fanaticism is right. Talking about reopening nuclear plants that already melted down, in order to get enough power to run datacenters that haven’t yet been shown to make money is the attitude of a cult. A lot of these CEOs have drunk the capitalist koolaid so deeply that they forgot that workers don’t lose them money, workers are actually exploited, and that exploitation is where profit comes from. They don’t understand how money is actually made, they just understand slashing costs