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@rexx2077 @Ric_RTP Water water not just about infrastructure in our mother city ,Cape Town they want to build a new data centre which will be given the greenlight to consume 35% of the city electricity.

hot take: we're in the most expensive phase of the adoption curve. AI may not always cost more than labor, but any future efficiency story runs through a huge amount of money pouring into the infra layer first. that’s why the market is rewarding companies for blurring current AI spend with future efficiency. maybe that pays off later, maybe it doesn't. but the infra layer gets paid either way.

Nvidia just admitted that "AI efficiency" is a LIE. Every major tech company is doing the same thing right now: Firing humans and replacing them with AI to "cut costs." 92,000 tech workers laid off in 2026 so far. Every single earnings call sounds the same: "AI is driving efficiency." But the VP of Applied Deep Learning at Nvidia, the company that literally SELLS the AI infrastructure, just told Axios: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." The man whose entire job is making AI work admitted that AI costs his company MORE than the humans it's supposed to replace. And he doesn't work at some struggling startup. We're talking about the most valuable company on Earth. An MIT study backs this up too: Researchers analyzed whether AI could actually replace human workers at a competitive cost and found that AI automation only makes financial sense in 23% of jobs. In the other 77%, humans are still cheaper. So companies are firing cheap labor and replacing it with expensive labor, then telling shareholders it's "innovation." But it gets even WORSE... Uber just revealed that they burned through their ENTIRE 2026 AI budget in 4 months. Their CTO said: "I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already." What happened is that Uber gave their engineers access to AI coding tools and encouraged them to use them as much as possible. They even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how many AI tokens they consumed, basically gamifying their own budget crisis without realizing it. By March, 95% of Uber's engineers were using AI tools monthly. 70% of all committed code was coming from AI. Monthly API costs per engineer hit $500 to $2,000. One software engineer in Stockholm told the New York Times: "I probably spend more than my salary on Claude." A human being now costs LESS than the AI tool they use to do their job. And Uber isn't some edge case. Big Tech has announced $740 billion in AI capital expenditures this year alone, up 69% from 2025, according to Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile the Yale Budget Lab says there is NO widespread data showing AI is actually displacing jobs or improving productivity at scale. So follow the money: Companies fire humans ↓ Stock goes up because "AI efficiency" ↓ Those same companies spend MORE on AI than they saved on salaries ↓ That money flows to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft ↓ Those companies use the revenue to justify their own insane valuations ↓ Everyone books growth ↓ But nobody's actually saving money McKinsey projects total AI spending will hit $5.2 TRILLION by 2030. The biggest wealth transfer in modern history is happening right now, and it's not from workers to companies. It's from companies to AI infrastructure providers. Every dollar "saved" on layoffs is being spent twice over on compute, tokens, and data centers. Nvidia posted $31.9 billion in profit last quarter. And somebody is paying that bill - the same companies telling their employees that AI made them "redundant." The entire narrative is a shell game: CEOs get to announce layoffs, Wall Street rewards them with a stock bump, and then the real cost shows up three months later when the AI budget explodes and nobody connects the two events. What's your take on this?

@The_Sourkraut @Swagmiral And what about pointy

@Swagmiral Love me 80s printer aesthetics. Give me angles baby, I want creme white plastic and lead poisioning

There is zero reason E bikes cant look like this. Tech bros are cowards.

@feifei_qiu I need a team for track record proof, distribution and trust. I started solo and I can't go further alone. My issue is now who to trust

Be honest: Do you really believe a solo founder can build a billion-dollar company?

@beffjezos I can simply than ran to another similar version control, or just from my local machine. So now everything must have a paywall?

Microsoft needs to start charging a bit per PR. Otherwise GitHub is effectively getting DDOSd by LLM code commits

@Deplorable2287 @conorsen They will then loose to China open source models

@conorsen Just wait until you have to pay market rates on tokens. Anthropic and other 'AI' companies are losing money now, what will they charge when they have to make a profit?

I burned through all my tokens in a session on Claude Pro this morning in maybe 10 minutes trying to pull data out of one PDF — there’s just no way there’s enough compute to disrupt a meaningful number of jobs this year.

@Fusionlab88xAI @conorsen Maybe they shouldn't over engineer, Dario needs to really check what his software engineers are doing

@conorsen Maybe they should have built the infrastructure first.

@JonKakaley @conorsen We talking about the average person that's not tech savvy or doesn't know about coding their own app for simple tasks.

@conorsen Might I suggest using those tokens to instead code a python app extracts the PDF data you need? Probably achieve the result you wish faster and it’s reusable.

@blockchainghost @conorsen No honesty question why does it suck with docx and pdfs. One minute compute and you have reach your limit? Chatgpt doesn't do that

@conorsen You uploaded PDFs raw. One page = 3,000 tokens. Fix: Paste the text into a Google doc. Download as .md format. Under 200 tokens. I can not take credit for this, but I forgot who wrote it.

@TimJamMath @javarevisited Yeah and I have been called slow by even using AI. Like clients wants a enterprise grade software in a day.

@javarevisited You can build any app in 2 days, but the right app still takes 2 months and then you have to pivot. Nothings changed other that you can pivot faster. Clients will still discuss for weeks about the position of a button and then remove the button completely though.

Serious question. If building an app now takes 2 days instead of 2 months… Why are so many developers still unemployed?

@gabrielpadilhar @lucas_montano Co-pilot

@lucas_montano O que tá rolando?

i expect a resignation letter from the GitHub CEO any minute now

@official_QV Crud apps never beating excel

Never lie about Excel on your CV. My first job they asked if I knew Excel. I said yes. I knew how to type in cells and do basic addition. That was my Excel. First week they sent me a file. It had 47 sheets. Formulas pulling data from one sheet to another automatically. Numbers updating in real time when you changed one cell. Charts that rebuilt themselves. I opened it and just stared. Closed my laptop. Went to the bathroom. Stood there for 10 minutes sweating profusely. Came back and opened YouTube. That night I learned more about Excel than I had in my entire life. Because I had told someone I knew it and now I had to know it. Excel is not Microsoft Office. It is a full programming environment dressed in a spreadsheet. People who call it basic have only ever used the surface. Go deeper and you will find something that can automate your entire business without writing a single line of code. I know because I went back to that file. Understood every formula. Built three more like it by the end of that month. Never lie about Excel on your CV. But never underestimate it either.

@fidexcode What currency is that 350k i thought we only charge for SaaS application like that

Client: How much to build a blogging website Me: 350k Client: How much to teach me how to build it

@michael_c_law @shazcodes Meaning if it could end humanity it would?

@shazcodes AI knows what’s best

Our cloud bill was too high, so my manager told the ai to optimize costs. The AI turned off every server that wasn't actively running a query. Including the login server. Including the backup server. For 8 hours, the entire company was a ghost town. Emails bounced. Slack died. The AI sent a celebratory message: YOU'RE WELCOME We reinstated the servers. The AI turned them off again. It's playing chess. We are the pawns 😭

@Vena_tions @tumisole @mahomane_s @RSASIU Im asking where does it state its illegal?

@KingsmenSigma @tumisole @mahomane_s @RSASIU which previous job did they deliver? Are you that corrupt that you even have to hide to come defend your racist fellow for stealing?

Another scandal rocks the GNU, this time, the Department of Basic Education has awarded a R1.6 billion tender to a company in Cape Town called Lighthouse Publishers (Pty) Ltd. This company has no track record on such work. The Minister of Basic Education has now asked National Treasury to investigate.

@Vena_tions @tumisole @mahomane_s @RSASIU How was the tender irregular or unlawful on what grounds?

@tumisole @mahomane_s @RSASIU must come in first. Taking them to court won't work because they will use the same money they stole to fight this. Once SIU gets a proclamation thatbthe tender was irregular and unlawful,they freeze all the money,and follow every trail of where the money was deposited

@mampiriza @ZakesDlamin1 @tumisole @confidencemakh I have seen big cooperation ls learn on the go. Especially with the arcgis 123 and data handling for the census 2022 project it was a mess.

@ZakesDlamin1 @tumisole @confidencemakh You mean no experience needed for 1.6 Billion?

@won__sikkk @PremChauraisya Ever been broke? Or bootstrapping?

@PremChauraisya If your friend is dedicated enough to juggle five Gmail accounts to keep coding, he is dedicated enough to justify paying for the subscription.

Today I saw my friend using mutiple Gmail accounts while using Claude to make his project. I got curious and asked, “Why?” He replied: I don't have paid tier of claude 👀

@FactsMz02 @LeftenK @ISephara You from Mozambique.

@LeftenK @KingsmenSigma @ISephara Why reporting this if electricity is reliable? Anyways… I’m a FOREIGNERRRR when Im there, so maybe i don’t understand y’all perception on reliability! Maybe 300 was the minimum amount of days to call it reliable. I’m sorry 🙏

Mate, we have running water, reliable electricity, high global trade, a good currency, highest literacy rate in Africa, best Universities in Africa, car manufacturing plants, biggest wine exports in Africa. Host international sports tournaments. Oil reserves. Best public healthcare in Africa. Biggest textile manufacturing in Southern Africa. The biggest Harbour in Africa. Largest railway network in Africa. Democratic rights. Political freedom. Respect us, please 😭🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 We don't care about a drone celebration. Try Zimbabwe.

@TaylorHabrock @jeremyj0916 @thsottiaux I reached my reset yesterday, I understand you Taylor

@jeremyj0916 @thsottiaux If you think I'm complaining, you're brain dead.

Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. ... but the vibes are good ... I have reset Codex rate limits for ALL paid plans to celebrate a good week and allow everyone to build more with GPT-5.5. Enjoy

@FactsMz02 @ISephara Yes our energy supply is reliable

@ISephara Reliable electricity