Same reason why a CEO with a half-arsed strategy they want to enact hires a highly paid management consultancy which by an amazing coincide produces an “analysis” or “study” that “identifies” “problems with the company” and “recommends” that the company executes said half-arsed strategy, and later after it fails miserable, said CEO will blame the consultancy.

Modern publicly traded company CEO’s aren’t hired on actual competence as strategists or top-level organizers, they’re hired on self-aggrandizing skills, personal connections, near-fraudulent misportrayal of their capabilities, or in other words, salesmanship.

At least in software development they can expect whatever the fuck they want, but when people are overworked due to trying to fulfill unreasonable expectations they make stupid mistakes so there are more bugs that slip through to much later phases were they’re harder to correct and the consequences of them are way more costly to undo and have no time for “spring cleaning” kind of work such as Refactoring code, so the codebase much more quickly becomes heavy, unwieldy and more bug prone - so harder to change (for example, do add new features or fix problems) and more likely to fail when it is change - leading to the need for a full rewrite (which costs $$$) much sooner.

In other words, increase the load on people and what you’re doing is causing a bit more work results delivered now in exchange for A TON of otherwise unnecessary work that will have to be done later (from extra bug fixing and even fixing the consequences of bugs, to full system re-writes because the old code base is an unmanageable mess) as well as a massive fall in productivity because the code has turned into a hot mess.

And this is without even taking in the account the consequences of using AI to generate code: unless we’re talking about such a minuscule project that it can be generated all in one go (i.e. non-professional stuff or tiny helper scripts), it’s not going to be a single consistent design with consistent coding practices, thus from the start already being a hot mess, way harder (read time consuming, read costly) to bugfix and change.

IMHO, there’s going to be some serious fireworks in just about all companies that went full-on with vibe coding, with the recent sequence of truly idiotic problems with Github and Windows 11 probably being a visible display of the beginning of that.

(Mind you, the funny bit is that all those senior techies that are already being hired to fix this shit and will need to be hired in larger numbers, are way more likely to tell any manager with unreasonable KPIs to go fuck themselves and even leave if pressed too hard to work themselves to the bone to try to achieve that which they know with absolute certainty is impossible, since it already is and it’s going to be even more a “sellers’ market” for the more experienced types so leaving is no problem).

Isn’t falsely accusing a person of theft in public Slander?

Yeah, I noticed.

I have zero hope of the EU comission not being complete total crooks sacrificing Europe to serve corporate America.

My hope is on the EU Parliament and on national governments, not the unelected “jobs for the boys” naturally rotten part of the EU “management”.

I’m thinking that there is not a single American strategy to try and keep ahead of China which is not some form of bullshit, be it the “scare” of “Chinese backdoors in Tech” to try and convince other countries not to buy Chinese Tech or the desperate, desperate, oh so desperate attempt at turning into a Future-defining Tech an American-dominated subset of ML (that’s been called AI and treated as if it’s genuinelly intelligent) being propelled by America’s until recently highly successful Tech Investment environment, all of which failing because of that kind of ML’s inherent limitations and because said Tech Investment environment is nowadays mostly Fraud so overpromised and kept pushing as “the Future” well beyond the point it proved its inherent limits what’s de facto a failed prototype.

I have no doubt in my mind that America, right now, has failed to grab the Future and is already fading into irrelevance, and this not even a Trump thing even though he definitelly expedited it.

I just hope the corrupt crooks that pass for politicians in this side of the Atlantic (Europe) don’t drag us down with America.

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Those are the entirelly the predictable consequences of America getting away with blocking the sale of such machines to China.

What the fuck did those strategically inept morons expected: that a country the size of China which trains TONS of Engineers would in an area were progress has actually slowed down a lot just give up and go “yeah, we’ll yield to the will of America and accept that our future is making plastic gadgets” rather than try to catch up to a competition that’s barelly moving forward???

Maybe the brainrot of Racism and Nationalism made those acephalic idiots think that Chinese are somehow inherently inferior to “our people” and couldn’t possibly figure out by themselves how to progress in the area of chip making.

Absolutelly, these are the consequences of Jensen Huang’s “strategy” and he’s just doing the usual trick of such inept high level managers when the mid and long-term consequences of their strategical ineptitude catch up with them of trying to distance himself from the consequences of his success in shaping American policy (by, lets be fair, just following other inept CEOs of other large Tech companies in the US).

IMHO the single biggest external visible marker that a CEO is strategically inept (i.e. incompetent at the core skill that differentiates mid from upper management) is how talkie-talkie (call it “salesmanship”, if you’re being generous) is their “solution” for everything.

I really hope NVIDIA and its shareholders suffer hard for giving the job of a strategist to a salesman.

They can do that, but in my experience they do not, if only because it would be a vector for external attackers (who could control that machine via those connections routed directly to the Internet) to get into the company’s intranet without actually having to go through the company’s firewalls.

From my point of view, all I want is that Europe doesn’t follow the US into suiciding it’s own future in Tech by structurally dismounting the workings of the Internet for the purpose of autoritarian surveillance.

Mind you, given the seeming high amounts of corruption and kompromat for European politicians - especially EU ones - I fear that even here they might send us down the path of Technological Black Age to satisfy the short term desires of whatever large American Tech Companies that have them in their pockets or populist American or Israeli politicians holding kompromat on them.

Ever since a nephew of Freud introduced concepts of Psychology into the Marketing world back in the mid XX century that advertising has shift mainly to work via psychological effects.

Perfect examples are perfume TV adverts (all about associating a perfume with sex and feeling sexy) and Car TV adverts (generally about associating a car with freedom, success and sometimes power).

So yeah, most of that shit is meant to just reside in your subconscious and subtly prod you towards a certain product or service at the right time, even if only because a certain brand name feels “familiar” or even “trustworthy” when you have to make a choice about a kind of product or service you don’t usually buy.

Plot twist: They’re gonna double down on vibe coding it.

Same reason why somebody won’t tell somebody else “you should use that specific bathroom stall” but they will “don’t use that specific bathroom stall”.

By doubling down on ICE and ultra expensive penis replacement “trucks” the Auto Industry and it’s paid up politicians there are basically committing suicide, so sooner or later there will be plenty of room in that market for auto makers with friendly priced electric cars.

Who needs catnip when there’s thick sliced almost raw beef?!

A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining.

After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies.

It’s pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals.

Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.

I think it’s way simpler than that: this is the first generation since at least WWII whose prospect in life is to be poorer and with worse quality of life than their parents.

So of course they would rather the clock wound back to the time when people their age still lived with the expectation that things would just keep on getting better.

The Tech angle in this article is just a bit of cherry picking to avoid talking about the broader systemic issues of the collapse in social mobility, explosion in inequality and real economic growth (i.e. that calculate by real inflation numbers rather than the la-la-land official “inflation”) having pretty much ground to a halt in 2008 and whatever there is of it being entirely captured by the top 1%.

It’s never been this good to be a billionaire, but for the rest minus technological evolution things are the worse they’ve been since WWII.

Personally I find all celebrity biopics disgusting.

I mean, it would be different if these things tended to actually be honest deeply researched analyses done by hard-nosed experts (which would probably mean they would be spectacularly boring as movies and better as articles or books) and if celebrity status was highly correlated to the greatness of one’s achievements for society rather than to being well known because of practicing a very public profession (so, featuring more of, for example, Great Scientists and fewer Star Musicians and Movie Stars), but in the current society, celebrity biopics are fantasy spectacles about people whose fame is due to nothing else than being a competent professional in showbiz.

That in itself doesn’t make the biopics “disgusting” but the recent abundance of them does add up to too much to of an overly sweet low-nutrition thing the point of being stomach turning, IMHO.

A shape like a right-angled triangle is pretty easy to produce from a square or rectangle, so if it was only that reason we would also see a lot of right-angled triangle shaped flags.

Could it be that the physics of the shape makes rectangles more resiliant as flags (as in, remaining at least partially intact) in the wind?

Or maybe it’s some Historical reason that boils down to some common origin of that shape as tradition?

Or maybe a bit of all including ease of manufacturing?