> The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees: Nvidia exec

https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

If your AI use costs less than what it would take to pay a human to do it, then you're what's called a "mark" in the "pre rug-pull" phase of the grift

When they start passing those costs on to you, you will graduate to being the "bag holder"

So think hard about whether you want any "load bearing" tasks to be handled by an AI

In related news, Microsoft is offering thousands of its most senior employees an early buyout plan to get them off the payroll.

... only a few months after announcing to everyone how their new focus is QA and making sure everything works the right way, every time, reliably.

I'm sure there won't be any downsides to THAT.

A Fediverse experiment! an "Exquisite Corpse" collab with artist @prahou (left), and me (right). Fun fun!

Full original thread: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B5c8qmENlmX1kjRXMm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blacktop/116517770852842822

“iOSInEUOriPhoneInBrazilOriPhoneInJapanRegion” 😂

Did you know you can pass a bill that states 1 + 1 = 3 ?

Like. Your legislature can propose, vote, and pass a bill that doesn't follow the rules of math, science, etc. Representatives don't have to understand tech, or numbers, or computer protocols. Or really anything. It's just words on paper (or a screen) that more than half of their body voted for.

And it's law.

Who knew.

Anyways, here's a fun article to read: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms

The cal.com project announced they're going closed source, with the reason stated that open source is risky due to AI vulnerability scanning 🤔

Like with mass firings, I think we'll see other VC-backed "Commercial Open Source" projects use AI as an excuse and opportunity to close their code now that AI is reducing the cost to entry for competitors, and for bypassing licensing or limitations in open core.

The licensing for cal.com was always questionable anyway:

https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/calcom/

INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny

Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works