Releasing a new model is the new way to Jack up the price hehe.

That's exactly right.

Are you saying that making a leaderboard of who is spending the most is going to be expensive?

They couldn't see that coming, but for sure they can predict how the future will be when it's time to sell their "visions" of the world.

Meanwhile, sheep's are going to believe and max their token usage with their own wallet. "You are so be left behind if you're not".

It's a mass psychosis. The only winners here are the hardware manufacturers, like nvidia for instance.

The other day I had to read a C-suite guy share how he had an epiphany that spending more tokens did not linearly align with more useful features being output by the teams. He was describing it as this breakthrough moment for him, as if it wasn't glaringly obvious that making the KPI "spend more tokens" would result in inefficient token spending, not massive value for the customer.

It's baffling how these people have entirely shut their ears to all the obvious warnings about this, and are now congratulating themselves for their slightly less psychotic outlook and pivoting to blaming the workers for inefficient usage, after specifically forcing them to tokenmaxx.

>It's baffling how these people have entirely shut their ears to all the obvious warnings about this, and are now congratulating themselves for their slightly less psychotic outlook and pivoting to blaming the workers for inefficient usage, after specifically forcing them to tokenmaxx.

It's not baffling. They are a caste, wholly insulated from the consequences of their own actions.

Almost every company is run in a basic dictatorial way. We almost never discuss it, when there is a wide corpus of political Science analysing the pros and cons of governance models that certainly puts it at the bottom.

>They are a caste

Sometimes literally.

(Meaning that it's not just business school indoctrination, but a dynamic they've been raised to expect and uphold. Fixing it isn't simply about convincing them of the folly of their approach, because you're attacking their personal sense of self in doing so. Which, I'm to understand, is a no-no, professionally.)

If it was so clearly ineffective, why does it get challenged more often and replaced? Existing corporations aren't likely to change, but new startups and work owned coops exist, so why don't they compete?

Maybe ranking it on a scale of best to worse is too simplistic a view, and there are reasons this develops. Maybe it is the best option when there is a good leader, thus such structures dominate, much as a government ran by philosopher kings are better. But this only lasts as long as a wise rule is in charge, and it reverts back to a norm, and eventually, due to pure time and chance, enough bad leaders come on board that slowly dismantle the giants, but this happens at a time scale we don't particularly notice due to how much inertia large corporations can have (before we even get into the less pleasant issues like regulatory capture).

>If it was so clearly ineffective, why does it get challenged more often and replaced?

I supposed you meant "why doesn't it get challenged"?

Well, look at how long it took for a democratic/Republican system to appear and survive. The French 1st Republic was immediately at war with all of Europe (I am not talking of Napoleon at all here, it was before that, when the French King was executed).

Nowadays, good luck getting any kind of financing with an "alternative" governance model. The banks and investors will either refuse or edge by pushing higher return rates on you. The whole system is conservative.

The adage "democracy is the worst system, apart from all others" only becomes true long-term. There are plenty of short-lived democracies back to antiquity, in the middle of the middle ages, during the Renaissance, the XIXth century... All stamped down by "more efficient" dictatorial empires... That aren't here anymore. You can expect the same in the even more cutthroat corporate environment, where fitting the system buys you leverage.

And don't get me stated on startups: most of them seek only an exist strategy. Very few challenge any existing behemoth. They are basically externalized R&D.

Apologies on the typo.

One other question I had but wasn't sure if it would leave my previous post too unfocused is "aren't we a bit too early to determine in our current government systems are really the most effective?" This is something that will be decided by political scientists far removed from the current societies who can see how our current societies evolve.

Dictatorial systems are most assuredly good at one thing: consolidating wealth and power.

I should have perhaps said "galling" instead.

After ejecting anyone who spoke out or were even publicly hesistant against the hard swerve into "just do maximal amounts of AI stuff above all else", they're now surprised to find that everyone that remains is dutifully excited about the emperor's new clothes, and yet he remains mysteriously exposed to the breeze.

> Almost every company is run in a basic dictatorial way. We almost never discuss it, when there is a wide corpus of political Science analysing the pros and cons of governance models that certainly puts it at the bottom.

Is it not wild that in the Freedom Loving West, we all spend the vast majority of our time as adults living inside tiny totalitarian states?

I think this persists largely because the people atop those tiny states are also the ones behind most of our media apparatus, so they can make it look and feel pretty normal. But that may be a little tinfoil hat of me.

Is it too late to scratch your final sentence?

FWIW I don't think it's tinfoil hat at all but when you say things like that on here you get a lot of late-stage-McCarthyists screaming about you being a Communist.

Hmm. That hasn't been my experience of HN, but if so, all the more reason to say what you really think. /$.02

This entire narrative is just made up. Managers know not to reward spending. At best you had some tracking to see who was using it and encouragement for those that aren't to start.

The person I am referring to is the CEO of Uber. He called this realization that higher token usage did not proportionally increase useful consumer features a "head-exploding moment". That's in his own words.

If you're thinking "that's bad management" then we are in complete agreement. He should have been able to predict this in advance, but evidently he either did not, or is pretending he did not.

The interview is linked in this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai...

I think this is the part that kills me. This is what many grunts, including myself said from the start. More PRs and more code does not equal value for the customer.

You get what you measure.

Yes, I think in that way it is dumb. But in another way I think it could be justified as a way to try and blaze some new trails and see what's possible by having users not worry about cost in the beginning.

Sure most token burning ends up being a waste but some ideas pan out?

Not disagreeing but it's another way of looking at it IMO

GCC down? Did the AI rotten your brain that much?

How can you come up with such non sense.

After 1 hour you asked the question, I am reading the replies and the conclusion is: no, they cannot.

No, I often sleep on top of my bed during the hot summer days. I also don't put myself under the blankets when I take a nap.

I don't know what TFA is talking about.

Also....

Maven doesn't have "preinstall, install, post install", or " build.rs" for rust, executing arbitrary code during the installation.

The code that's executing with Maven is in your pom.xml, not some hidden code from a transient dependency.

That alone is a major design flaw in both npm and cargo.

Java is boring, because it works. People don't like boring stuff. It's more exciting to play the Russian roulette on each install!

As a heavy user of Java I can assure you that Java is very very far from boring, especially when building it with maven or gradle. There are millions ways something can screw up the build. Rust (and Go too) in comparison is much more boring actually - it maybe I was just lucky, but the majority of stuff just builds with zero issues.

Especially the number of times I had to clean all the caches in order for maven and gradle to build the project is just far too high for me. It shouldn’t ever be needed if an ecosystem is meant to be considered boring. I feel like Java doesn’t build when I look at it wrong.

> I feel like Java doesn’t build when I look at it wrong.

Hah, too true! I guess it is boring in the fact that it is not as... move fast and break things... as NPM. But Java build systems are still certainly fun and challenging in their own ways.

Yep, sounds boring!

How does Maven handle JNI? Is it also a build system for C/C++, or do packages with native bindings require manual build steps?

I googled a bit and found this snippet:

            <plugin>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.1</version>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>Generate-shared-lib</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>exec</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <executable>bash</executable>
                            <arguments>
                                <argument>generate-lib.sh</argument>
                            </arguments>
                            <environmentVariables>
                                <JAVA_HOME>${env.JAVA_HOME}</JAVA_HOME>
                            </environmentVariables>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

At least with certain plug-ins Maven will execute arbitrary commands at build time. And if you need that to build native bindings it feels like a big hole. Granted, most projects don't need JNI, I guess.

I hope to never work with you.

No offense.

Your wish is granted. You will not work.

It's the first time I see someone else with the same setup.

Each time I read about the monstrosity of an external company owning all my passwords, taking into account all the leaks and supply chain attacks these days... I feel good "self hosting" what could be the most sensitive information that I have.

When I was a kid, we've been told to be cautious with third party dependencies, that code can do anything and it's a risk to evaluate.

With the new generation of yolo NPM scripters, they simply don't evaluate the risks. They will even fight back telling you that it's the way of doing things.

In reality, it's the warning we learnt back then, that's the result of be mindlessly importing third dependencies without thinking.

In other words, the risks were always there, the new "modern way", let's put it that way, doesn't put the effort anymore.

That, and it is combined with not being willing to write a few functions oneself, which one could easily do, and then not have to add a dependency. But it is also a result of trying to do everything quickly quickly! and being pushed to do that.

The more one knows about computer programming, algorithms, data structures, how things are usually implemented in general, the better one can avoid unnecessary dependencies. Needs the right environment though to execute on that.

  > that's the result of be mindlessly importing third dependencies without thinking

tbf, most tech-related corporate environments don't want you to think, just do (kpi, mbo, okr et al) and this is one of the results

> When I was a kid ... With the new generation

Let's be real tho, there's a whole lot of people who have been around enough to know better that do this too.