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Gotta say, all of that is on brand. Any company messing around with crypto has to have done shady tactics.

Oh wow. That’s about as wasteful as burning oil to make electricity.

And speaking of the prompt, if you want something as simple as a hello world application or Fibonacci sequence calculator, you’re going to need like 10-20 sentences to explain precisely what you want. If you’re also going to look at the code yourself, add another 20 lines to tell the LLM exactly how the code should look like to make maintenance easier.

Also, Cisco knows that now you can still do that. The AI market is largely subsided with VC money, so the current pieces are a fraction what they should be charging. Try this move after the bubble pops and you’ll need to pay millions for rewriting each application. If you want to vibe some slop code, now is the time.

Also, get some popcorn on your way home. When you hear the titan crashing down, it’s time to put the popcorn in the microwave.

Why should I buy a fire extinguisher? My house isn’t on fire, so what am I going to do with that investment? In the meanwhile, I can use that money on something that will bring about an immediate benefit, such as a mini fridge for my 7up cans or a deep fryer for chicken wings.

Sounds stupid, I know. That’s exactly how companies work. That old code written in the 1980s still works, so why bother rewriting it. This old server still runs and we’re not even maxing out its capacity, so we’re definitely not upgrading it. Instead we will keep on pouring millions on patching the old code even though there are only a handful of people who know that language. Meanwhile, we will also complain about electricity prices, even though newer servers would cut electricity expenses to a fraction. Companies are totally allergic to capex, but somehow they can always handle absurdly high opex.