I am LOVING seeing so many AI projects being paused or binned.

[securitywriter@infosec.exchange]

I am LOVING seeing so many AI projects being paused or binned.

There’s one silver lining in the mass layoffs, they can’t lay off their absurd investment in power, cooling, and hardware. Loss adjusters and liquidators are rubbing their hands with glee.

Also, many silicon spinners are demanding 5 year agreements on production. It’s go big or go home time, and there will be some casualties.

One org I reluctantly work with pivoted their entire operating model to AI and agents, and they royally screwed their staff over.

They’re now hiring them as consultants at twice their original salary as everything fell on it’s arse, and who knew that go to market suits with a prompt can’t keep infrastructure or business running. Hilariously I know one engineer negotiated a one-sided 12 month contract notice period.

These people are going to get desperate, fast. Fetch the s’mores and let em roast.

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@SecurityWriter moar plz 👉 👈 🥺

[gpshewan@mastodon.social]

@SecurityWriter I’m still saying 2H this year when things start unravelling

[mariyadelano@hachyderm.io]

@SecurityWriter do you have more examples of this please I need some faith in the world

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@gpshewan @SecurityWriter That’s what I’m thinking, too. It’s almost as if you can smell it on the air. The stories CEOs are telling about AI have shifted subtly, which makes me think they know what’s coming.

[gpshewan@mastodon.social]

@ramsey @SecurityWriter For me it’s not just that, it’s the cost/revenue and ancillary stuff that folk just never think about. The environment, ethics, society impact, security and whether it does what it says on the tin are one thing (and valid). But when the sums don’t work out and confidence shifts…there’s no stopping that.

[unlofl@mstdn.social]

@SecurityWriter luckily, I upgraded my home lab systems and added a bunch of memory a year or two ago.

I'm biding my time, there's gonna be cheap gear for liquidation! $200 rack mount servers for everyone!

[mildpeach@mstdn.social]

@SecurityWriter well, if you don’t mine a little scavenging there may be lots of Nvidia things and RAM to be had…

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@SecurityWriter Okay the time to trade union is now.

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@SecurityWriter Being clear here: this is the time to say "Yeah. We are valuble. But also, let us NEVER let this kind of shit happen again. No producing this style of code. No consuming it. We establish a code of ethics, and anyone we outsource to must be included in this."

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange

[skaverat@skaverat.net]

@SecurityWriter if anyone got news articles with details about stuff like this, I'd be happy to have some to randomly drop into the company slack

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@SecurityWriter ngl I´m hoping that the detonation of this whole mess lets broke bitches ilke me get server and compute hardware for cheap

[sig_ug@infosec.exchange]

@SecurityWriter Any clues where used GPUs might show up for sale when the time comes?

[thegreatllama@kolektiva.social]

@SecurityWriter
Wow, a real shame...

🍿🍺

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@anne_twain @SecurityWriter THEY are the ones that should be replaced by AI

[gparenti@mstdn.social]

@gpshewan @ramsey @SecurityWriter And when insurers make sure that policies exclude loss caused by AI errors (and they will), the whole house of cards will collapse.

[scottwilson@infosec.exchange]

@SecurityWriter This is the best thing I’ve read all day!

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@ferricoxide @SecurityWriter

[matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it]

I've seen so many AI CEOs or people with close relationships to projects driven by AI getting real mad at the lack of positive sentiment to their work too. See https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416 and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/423186#issuecomment-3919469369