Amazon just speed-ran a season of 'Silicon Valley'
  • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    131·
    16 hours ago

    As Gilfoyle said when he gives his AI permission to overwrite code: “The most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the software, which is technically and statistically correct.”

    A+

    • xep@discuss.onlineEnglish
      31·
      12 hours ago

      As we well know as programmers, technically correct is the best kind of correct.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    85·
    18 hours ago

    I can’t even imagine the amount of story ideas they have at their disposal now. It really is ripe for a reboot or revival. They were dealing with compression and data efficiency, I think we have surpassed those issues.

    Since it ended we have had:

    • Crypto currency
    • NFTs
    • “AI”
    • VR
    • Wearables
    • Hardware shortages
    • etc
      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        41·
        5 hours ago

        Eventually.

        But the problems were more along the lines “oh no, it’s so powetful, it’s becoming god”.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      15 hours ago

      It’s not the AI that causes problems. It’s the CEOs that INSIST this bullshit needs to not only be part of our lives, but also affect our lives.

      We can’t buy ram at reasonable prices. I hear storage (hard drives, and solid state drives) are also going to go back to being expensive.

      GPUs as well.

      This is just like a few years ago when all the crypto bros decided they needed all the GPUs. So prices went from $100 or so, to $700. I’ve heard of some high end GPUs at tge peak of it going for 3k.

      Except this time, when the fad ends, I heard it’s going to collapse the entire US economy.

      We’re being forced to prop up a technology that does not work in the ways they want it to, and never will. It can’t. Thats not something a computer can ever do.

      It’s like saying a plane can fly at 550mph, and a pigeon can also fly. Therefore we’re forcing the entire united states economy to be dependant on pigeons flying from New York to Los Angelas in 5 hours.

      It can’t do that.

      So when it fails, it basically creates a global depression.

      That’s what we’re doing here. The CEOs are at fault. The AI itself will only do what you tell it to do.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    18 hours ago

    I’ve been in the tech/startup world since the early ‘00s and I can definitively say you best start believin’ in Silicon Valley episodes; you’re in one.

    • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      15 hours ago

      Yeah, first time I watched I was like holy shit, are they filming my life? So much they get right in that show, especially the egos and pettiness

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        15 hours ago

        I knew from the very first scene. Some company had just got bought so they had a big party and paid Kid Rock to play. But everybody was in polos and khakis and wanted to have quiet conversations and Kid gave up halfway through the first song.

        I was at that party. It wasn’t Kid Rock, but I was at that party

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      13 hours ago

      all the devs at work would talk about how much they love the show.

      they all thought they were Bachmans, but were in reality Jareds.

      I couldn’t watch the show because it was too triggering to me. Imagine working on a team of Jareds…

      Personally I always identified with Gilfoyle but knew deep down I was a Richard.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        13 hours ago

        I’ve had a customer ask for me by saying “get us that guy who looks like Gilfoyle, he’s the only one who seems to know what’s going on.”

        Though I am polyamorous, have been associated with the occult, have long hair and a beard, and wear rectangular glasses, so I can understand how they’d be mistaken.

    • Lambda@lemmy.caEnglish
      28·
      16 hours ago

      Except that AWS is (for better or for worse) a tier 1 network solutions provider, in part because of advertised uptime. Due to that, it is possible for a minor AWS outage to result in lack of 911 service in an area, for example. Hopefully they have the common sense to try out these new things on less critical nodes though.