Replace some of the labor you would use to pay for RAM and put it into learning a lighter weight operating system.
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At least monitors are cheap now.
At least till they decide the AIs all need faces 🤣
Until we start sanctioning them, too
Dodge must be pretty happy.
With imaginary money
Yeah but as long as the manufacturers keep selling all their production for real money, everybody else is screwed and prices are going up.
And people are trying to tax the imaginary money.
Can't tax the imaginary money. It would destroy the imaginary economy.
Things don't add up. I see articles about computer parts becoming unavailable along with articles about data center plans being cancelled or not getting built. I assume the data centers ARE getting built and those second articles are lies to calm people down.
It's because it's a Ponzi scheme. Huge amounts of investment dollars are being dumped into AI and anything related to AI. If you build any kind of chips that are used in AI datacenters, you suddenly have a bunch of money invested in your company. What do you do with it? You make a deal with OpenAI (or one of the other ones) that you'll invest that money into them if they agree to buy a bunch of chips from you. Now you have revenue on books and are showing a reasonable return on that investment.
If you were a chip manufacturer and actually believed that there was a big future in AI, you'd be using those investment dollars to build some more chip fabs. And some of these companies are doing that. But overall, moving money to another company so they will order chips for datacenters that aren't built yet (and may never be built) is just bubble ponzi shenanigans.
Computer hardware depreciates in value very quickly. You don't buy hardware today so you can install that hardware in a datacenter that won't be online for another year.
Capitalists wet dream is to make more money without investing any new capital. Chip fabs are in a situation like that where they can make buttload more money without changing anything except charging more.
Nothing will change because the alternative is investing billions just to keep the price down. They'd rather pocket the billions now.
If you were a chip manufacturer and actually believed that there was a big future in AI, you’d be using those investment dollars to build some more chip fabs.
Major new semiconductor fabrication plant projects are expanding across the United States, led by a $16.8 billion SpaceX and Tesla "Terafab" project in Grimes County, Texas, massive expansions by TSMC in Arizona, and Samsung's ongoing fab development in Taylor, Texas.
Computer hardware depreciates in value very quickly. You don’t buy hardware today so you can install that hardware in a datacenter that won’t be online for another year.
Hardly unusual for speculators to buy up a hot commodity the day of release and then resell it into an inflated secondary market a few days or weeks later.
SpaceX and Tesla "Terafab" project
Ah, so the only thing we know with confidence is that it’s definitely not happening.
OpenAI has a deal with Samsung and SK Hynix to purchase 900,000 DRAM wafers per month, or 40% of global DRAM output. These are just uncut wafers, accumulating in warehouses that serve two purposes:
- Prepares them for the distribution to data centers,
- Manipulates the supply chain to squeeze their competitors, who are left with slim pickings.
You and I are the victims of this until the bubble finally pops and the deal falls through.
You and I are the victims
We're way downstream. The "victims" are all the SaaS and smaller market cap firms that need business compute for accounting and commerce.
Case in point, I got a request for a new server delayed three months because we blew through our Q1 budget for new hardware faster than expected.
That's not really hurting me, personally. But it means our server teams need to do more with less even as the business expands.
Local small businesses are being priced out of self hosted server options since ~October (Source: MSP)
What did that Michigan politician say "we're used to ignoring people and just doing it anyway" something along those lines...
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I guess that I should use Klarna or the like to buy enough RDIMMs to let me use Qwen 3.8 122b, at the very least. The $606 I spent on buying 32gb of 5600 memory is looking like a bargain these days, and that was just a couple months ago.
Given that hoarding RAM for AI is the main culprit behind the shortage, you're guaranteed to get pitchforks instead of compassion here.
Good. Time for software to be optimized again.
Half the joke of the AI bubble is how American tech firms prioritized brute force over efficient engineering.
Truth.
I am astounded that games like Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider and Abe's Oddysee with their massive sprawling worlds were crammed into such relatively tiny file sizes.
Necessity gets results
how will the vibe coders survive this?
please, will somebody please think about the feelings of the poor vibe coders :(
I was about to get insulted but I almost closed the lid on the laptop by accident and now have to make sure my cloude still operational on the task I gave it, so I can't be rerouting my attention span resources
Vibe coders will ask the AI to write everything in Rust, memory usage will be reasonably low
The people writing everything in Electron are gonna have a fun time with their users though.
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