I worry they’re going to destroy the chips they can’t afford to deploy to keep them from being used for local inference

How would chips that, say, Amazon paid for end up in local devices?

I don’t understand the scenario that destroying the chips would guard against. Amazon could just leave these chips in a warehouse indefinitely.

I guess this is functionally destroying them? Doesnt take long for chips to go out of date. If I buy a load of potatoes and let them rot, have I not destroyed them?

> If I buy a load of potatoes and let them rot, have I not destroyed them?

Depends on how they're stored. Computer chips aren't potato chips, they don't rot, properly stored they can last a really long time, a multitude of storage technologies are available for that purpose.

> Doesnt take long for chips to go out of date.

That used to be the case but it's no longer true. Advanced chips are made by 3 companies total and competition is nowhere to be seen. Then, with every generation of chips, their production costs and prices are rising more than the benefits that generation provides i.e. the benefits curve is flattening faster than cost curve.

Theoretically, China can bring the prices down but they are sanctioned, tariffed and have a huge market of their own to satisfy first.

The corpus AI is trained on is everything leading up to now, so my guess is it will keep doing that stuff.

We should name them after oil company execs

Come on bullwhip!

Somehow I doubt it’s entirely written by a human

It was written by an entrepreneur since the very early womb days.

Can this be used with the ponytail skill? https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main

It should be compatible yeah - ponytail was the inspiration for this - ideally one could use ponytail for application code and neckbeard for infra.

Also:

suspenders, for resilience

unixbeard, for documentation

roundglasses, for observation

dnd, for chaos testing

Wait is unixbeard compatible with neckbeard?

Only if you install straightrazor, but functionality is significantly reduced.

Can't tell if this is some kind of inside joke or actual 2026 tech talk

leatherpants, security/pintesting furryattechconference, automated devrel

These are impossible to search for.

Do you have a link for unixbeard?

Purplehair, for Reddit and discord moderation

I'm not sure if this is a joke or not

please, is it?

I’m a data engineer at a massive bureaucratic institution. Working on full stack so I can build cool stuff for people

I’ll opt-in to working at Apple

You don’t have to make any decisions then you have to decide if what it made is correct and communicate that. For all levels of detail that matter

Google’s main product was and continues to be ads

I think the in the book he was referring to B2C products when he said search will be replaced by AI. Their main B2C product is not ads. I don't think anyone I know has bought an ad from google.

It would be more accurate to say their main revenue stream is ads, which are sold through their main products (search, YouTube, etc.)

>I don't think anyone I know has bought an ad from google.

I don't think anyone I know has bought a consumer product from Google.

You don't know anyone who bought storage from google for google photos or drive?

or a Chromecast? Pixel phone?

Chromebook?

It's a bit nit picky because what most users use is theirnai search , well I'm guessing that's what most of us interact with

Google is a ChatGPT for quick answers, and ChatGPT is a Google for deep web search.

They are an ads business my friend - it’s what generate the revenues to cross subsidies the freebies.

That is to say, its main product is its human users.

Are they integrating it well with AI overviews then? It looks like they haven't found a way to monetize it yet.

Yes, thank you.