Back when I was younger there was a place called U Pull A Part in Milan that was basically a big lot of totalled vehicles that you could go there, remove a part you needed from the vehicle yourself, and then pay a relatively cheap price for it. I know that place doesn't exist anymore, but is there any place like it around anymore?
Well, my CEO(small manufacturing company) has finally bitten the AI bug. He wants me to use Claude code to replace a bunch of software that our company currently pays for, and won't listen to that it isn't a good idea. I'm a 1 man programming team so I am the one who has to make the slop. I'm honestly extremely depressed right now and plan on getting smashed after work, because I actually really like this job and had hoped he would hold off on biting the hype until things go off a cliff.
Just read an article about the fancy new data center that Kevin O'Leary wants to build in Utah that just got approved to be built. Even ignoring the fact they are outright lying about the jobs it will bring after construction, the other parts of the narrative around it drive me insane because they basically are ignoring the impact the datacenter could have.
The datacenter is supposed to eventually consume 9 GW of power, where the average use of the entire state of Utah is 4 GW, powered by its own natural gas turbines. This is a good thing because doing it this way won't increase the cost of power for everyone! Except that consuming that much natural gas is going to raise the price of natural gas, which will increase the cost of power for people.
And this is also ignoring how absolutely horrible it will be for anyone living anywhere for many miles around this place, between the noise pollution of a gigantic datacenter and the actual pollution from burning that much natural gas and whatever environmental effect the heat pollution will have.
The only thing I am optimistic about is that the thing is unlikely to ever actually get built.