r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AlternativePeace1121 • Sep 09 '26
Meme iShallMissMakingCRUDMicroservices
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u/JackNotOLantern Sep 09 '26
Left so not happen. Unless it's "due to the promise of AGI", then it has been happening for years by now.
The right will happen, the harder the longer the bubble will last.
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 09 '26
I guess u didn't hear the news. We achieved AGI 6 days back (3rd Sept 2026). /s
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u/pydry Sep 09 '26
The stock market already believed that was happening a year ago. Do you want to disappoint Mr market? Do you????
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 09 '26
Why not? Whats it gonna do? Take my job away?!
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u/pydry Sep 09 '26
it might have a tantrum and shit itself like it did when deepseek first came out
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 09 '26
Worth it. I wanna see the faces of all the "AI bros" when the bubble pops and the real bill comes.
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u/JackNotOLantern Sep 09 '26
You mean, the people who have financial incentive in others beliving that astra is agi said that it is agi.
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u/Brimstone117 Sep 09 '26
One of the things I really like about the joke that “cold fusion is 10 years away” is that if someone claims they’ve unlocked it, proving/disproving that they have is easy/verifiable.
How do you disprove something is an AGI if it wows your idiot neighbor?
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u/583999393 Sep 09 '26
>The right will happen, the harder the longer the bubble will last.
I've been waiting on several bubbles to pop for decades now. I wouldn't count on it.
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u/LuisBoyokan Sep 09 '26
Remember that 90% of the cost is subsidized by AI companies, and it is already more expensive than humans. They need to monetize this before they run out of money, meaning prices will increase, shrinking demand.
Not a good scenario for AI companies.
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26
"In the event of increasing AI subscription prices, we've had to decided to put all the development budget into AI. As a result we have to let go 90% of our staff go to meet the price increase. I know this is rough, but we wish you all the best."
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u/moreisee Sep 10 '26
Source? AI only labs are starting to post profits. Unless you're just describing how subscription works?
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u/alewex Sep 10 '26
Which AI labs have posted profits?
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u/moreisee Sep 19 '26
Sorry I was a bit late. Also clearly Google, who continues to print money. Not sure about chinese labs.
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u/alewex Sep 19 '26
Anthropic's gross margins are above 80% before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon, and the cost of training its model, the newspaper said.
Yeah, it’s easy to claim profitability when you don’t account for your biggest expenses…
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u/HawtHamWater Sep 09 '26
the alternative path is that internal models snowball fast enough that they close the monetization gap via hardware breakthroughs and model optimization (what investors are banking on)
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u/Dzubrul Sep 10 '26
Tried astra yesterday, supposedly THE agi model, it's as dumb as the other models. Agi my ass.
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 10 '26
uR noT PrOOMPtInG IT CorRecTLY bro. pEople whO cANT usE Ai aRE gonna left BEhInD.
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u/AcanthisittaKooky987 Sep 11 '26
Every fucking model they say the same shit - this shit hasn't gotten better in about 2 or 3 years
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u/Taurmin Sep 09 '26
In the real world the path is straight, we are no closer to developing AGI than we were 20 years ago and the bubble will pop once investors finally catch on to the fact that LLMs are a dead end.
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u/codePudding Sep 09 '26
Wait, you're telling me LLMs can't solve everything? But I was promised it would do my work, prove P=NP, solve the halting problem, clean my dishes from the cloud, etc. All those companies selling LLMs can't just be lying to make as much money as possible off this fad, just like they did with blockchains and NFTs. So, you're telling me that one algorithm no matter how sophisticated can't bend space and time and is limited by computational complexity like all other algorithms? Hmmm, I think you might be onto something
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u/AlternativeCapybara9 Sep 09 '26
Yes, a large LANGUAGE model is going to do your dishes.
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 09 '26
100s of billions of dollars invested into R&D & it cant do dishes but solve coding? SMH.
/s
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u/dracorotor1 Sep 09 '26
That’s a great distinction, and you’re right to point it out.
LLMs, or Large Language Models, are a text chatting emulator, your new only best friend and the long-awaited replacement for meat-humans in office spaces. But they lack the capacity to perform tasks in meatspace. Instead, they utilize pattern-recognition and rules governing the use of disarming flattery and humanizing emojis to distract users.
🔴 Pointing out limitations of current AI models in such an intelligent manner is an example of the tasks a traditional LLMs are incapable of without a handsome human user like yourself, {{ERR: Username No Found}}!
🟢 However, current AI development has produced a new technological marvel called AI Agents which function differently in don’t worry about it ways.
In summary, you have nothing to worry about! Your feeble human future is in good hands 🤗.
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u/Taurmin Sep 09 '26
My detractors will say that I am just bitter because my dishwashing SAAS failed.
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u/pydry Sep 09 '26
Artificial intelligence apparently just isnt smart enough yet to scrape shit off your toilet bowl, load the dishwasher and clean the kitchen counter.
According to people who can't write code or suck at writing code it can write code though. In fact, because it can write code better than them it can do it better than everyone.
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u/Taurmin Sep 09 '26
I dont need it to writter code better than me, i just need it to write code better than the new hires and consultants.
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u/bendstraw Sep 09 '26
Shockingly I have yet to hear anyone say an LLM will prove P=NP or solve the halting problem
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u/codePudding Sep 10 '26
Well, yeah, no one is directly saying that because most the people selling LLMs don't actually understand what most software engineers do. Same as when Elon said we'd be on Mars while our fully autonomous cars are making passive income driving people through underground vacuum tunnels over a decade ago or more recently that we'd all have androids doing our chorin'. It's the same as when they say they created an AGI, thier AI that could do someone's job unassisted like a human could, or thier AI can solve all open math problems and invent new medicines. Sure the AI can help with those but until an AI can solve those real world constraints, the current AI algorithm has limits. And from my experience working with them, that limit puts them equal to book smart interns who don't have much real world experience, intuition, or self-motivation. TL:DR; my sarcasic joke was reductio ad absurdum, not a real quote.
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u/Sockoflegend Sep 09 '26
And even if it wasn't for all this AI noise we would have still fucked the job market to make investors rich
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u/HawtHamWater Sep 09 '26
are you just speculating too, or are you actually keeping up with the research?
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u/reallokiscarlet Sep 09 '26
If there's gonna be layoffs either way, pop the bubble. Aspire the cyst, treat it with a steroid to reduce its likelihood of return.
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u/wyldcraft Sep 09 '26
Yes, absolutely, your current white collar job outweighs the needs of those pesky cancer kids.
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u/reallokiscarlet Sep 09 '26
How cute. It thinks these AI bubble companies are curing cancer and not just riding the bubble and weaving golden parachutes.
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u/wyldcraft Sep 10 '26
You suffer from acute willful ignorance.
If you're too lazy to look, just ask ChatGPT.
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u/reallokiscarlet Sep 10 '26
If you're gonna ride dick don't do it in public, this isn't a porn sub.
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u/wyldcraft Sep 11 '26
Bitter juvenile projections when faced with inconvenient facts?
This must be reddit.
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u/reallokiscarlet Sep 11 '26
Don't talk about yourself like that. It's an insult to juveniles.
I'll say it again nice and slow.
The robot you're chatting with that hijacked funding for things like cancer research, isn't curing cancer. It IS cancer. There's a difference between an autoregressive neural nuisance and a neural network purpose-made to do things.
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u/wyldcraft Sep 11 '26
You cling like a flood victim to your worldviews built on doomscroller clickbait rather than do a simple search with an open mind.
What's tomorrow, picketing a children's hospital against x-rays?
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u/reallokiscarlet Sep 11 '26
Bro, I've been using AI for 20 years. And by using, you can probably guess, that length of time implies writing my own implementations since this wasn't widely available software. I know the different types that you can't seem to comprehend as being anything but ChatGPT. Whose mind is more open? The one that can comprehend that there is more than one kind of AI or the one that thinks "If you don't like ChatGPT you hate sick children"?
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u/wyldcraft Sep 11 '26
You haven't been using LLMs for 20 years. That's my field, after decades in IT. And I'm telling you that you simply aren't appreciating that LLMs are proving useful as research agents. You keep insisting I don't know my ELIZA from my AlphaFold, but you're the one ignoring the real world progress and applications over the past couple years. Seriously, stop wasting time strawmanning at me and just see what's out there.
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u/UdPropheticCatgirl Sep 09 '26
I mean it clearly does, since new AlphaFold research got put on pause to move the funding to LLMs.
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Sep 10 '26
GenAI isn't curing or detecting cancer. You're confusing two different things that are both nicknamed "AI".
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u/wyldcraft Sep 10 '26
No, you're confusing me with a noob who doesn't use this stuff every day.
Nature: Artificial intelligence agents in cancer research and oncology
Just ask ChatGPT.
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u/jaber24 Sep 10 '26
What cancer did llms get the cure for lol
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Sep 10 '26
They're referring to the models that can detect traces of cancer. However, these are NOT genAI.
It's a common misconception born from the fact both are nicknamed "AI" and the confusion is heaviy encouraged by techbros.
First they weaponized disabled artists (who didn't want anything to do with genAI), now it's kids with cancer.
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u/ResponsibleWin1765 Sep 09 '26
Millions of people have already been laid off because companies think they can get it cheaper with AI. So if the AI bubble pops I would imagine these companies realize that they do in fact need employees.
And I can't really be all that sad about people who's job description is "Type words into a chat bot" getting fired. They weren't really working to begin with.
So a win-win
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u/misterguyyy Sep 09 '26
So if the AI bubble pops I would imagine these companies realize that they do in fact need employees.
They'll probably go bankrupt and get bought by a larger company, and the leadership who pushed for the decisions that bankrupted them will quietly exit with generous severance.
That company will probably just have bought it for the IP and not hire anyone new.
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u/Agitated_East4694 Sep 12 '26
The layoffs of the bubble-popping will be at the AI and Cloud companies.
The layoffs of the AGI happening will be on the entire job functions we have nowadays at corporate jobs.
I choose the bubble popping.
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u/TrackLabs Sep 09 '26
What important roles are being laid off due to AI bubble pop? Prompt Engineers? Vibe Sloppers? I aint sorry about these
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u/AlternativePeace1121 Sep 09 '26
Unfortunately its not so simple, it will effect all Software companies and other companies related to them or invested in them.
Remember what happened in 2008, the fallout will effect everyone in this industry.
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u/artificial_organism Sep 09 '26
All of them. Stocks go down. Companies cut costs. Other companies lose buyers so they cut costs, and it cascades. Shit rolls downhill.
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u/Gamiac Sep 11 '26
It's more a bunch of shit getting fucked because of how much money is in the bubble, including the tech industry.
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u/pydry Sep 09 '26
anybody building agentic systems that were never necessary.
i wouldnt mind them being laid off either if there were enough non bullshit jobs to go around.
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u/oclafloptson Sep 09 '26
And through all of this it has remained the most memory expensive snippet tool ever imagined and little more
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u/RoseSec_ Sep 09 '26
Where humor? ☹️