IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
  • IBM’s CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— and said that there’s “no way” to turn a profit at current costs.
  • “$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest,” Arvind Krishna told “Decoder.”
  • Krishna was skeptical of that current tech would reach AGI, putting the likelihood between 0-1%.
  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    If your juniors can commit slop directly to main the problem isn’t them or the AI, it’s your process.

    Mandates to use AI are the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. I quit a company over it last year.

    I don’t get it. Do managers think the guys plowing the fields saw someone go by with an ox an cart and went “I keep hearing about these ox carts, but I need my manager to tell me to use it before I try”? No. The ox and cart was better than plowing the field by hand, obviously so.

    If the domain experts don’t feel like a tool makes them productive, forcing them to use it isn’t going to make them productive.