I like the ioniq 5 n and it would be my choice if I were given an EV as a daily driver, but the range is too low at around 220 miles. I would be able to survive on that will minimal issue, but I take 3+ hour one way trips fairly regularly for events or to see friends. If that was closer to 300 mil range, I think I’d be fine with it as a lot of super charger will get to 80% charge in about 15 min. My average fill up on a road trip is probably 10 min, so I could live.

The biggest factor is msrp on the ioniq 5 n is like $65k, so not happening.

We got ourselves a keyboard warrior here.

There will be some major bag holders soon. Who’s is gonna be? The funnelers or the funnelees? How does MS bounce back having integrated copilot into everything?

It wasn’t the best word choice. I did say ‘the’ inflation to try and separate it a bit, but should have rephrased.

The inflation of computer component costs, the topic of this post.

Aug 2024, I purchased 32gb of RAM for $109. That same kit today would cost me $509. Sept 2025 I got a 250gb nvme for $33 that is now around $85. The inflation is real.

I don’t think there’s a chance that happens either at the consumer level or mass adoption at the enterprise level. The estimated price of that nvidia surface ultra is expected to be around $3000. Only a handful of power users will pay that, and others may just buy it for the computer power. Right now for the basic user it’s about $30 a month for basic AI plans. How many people that are willing to pay that do you think are willing to pay 100 years up front to then pay a subscription to then manage a local model?

Also, there are a lot of viable free models available right now that people can download for free. I have a recycled i5, 8gb ram machine that can run some basic models that are cable of doing 90% of the stuff the average person wants. My desktop with far better specs can run far more powerful models. The thing is, most people don’t know these exist, and if they do they don’t know how to set them up or are too intimidated to try.

That’s just for consumers. Trying to host that at an enterprise level is much more difficult. Assuming the business has the tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to support 100s or thousands of users, configuring governance on LLMs and everything associated with enterprise management that is currently handled at the current companies will fall back on the business. That will probably require hiring specialist, or at least expanding the work force. If it takes 1 $3000, unreleased and untested laptop, imagine the cost to support a company, especially one doing software development.

Even with all of that, training the models isn’t going to get cheaper. It’s going to get more expensive as more data centers are built. Operating costs will go up, and unless these companies start charging upwards of 3k a month per user, they won’t be profitable on AI alone. Obviously they are making money on other things like selling user data, but none the less, costs have to go up for even the notion of making money for these companies.

I think that currently, a lot of places are replacing junior devs with AI. As senior devs retire or quit because of AI, there won’t be skilled juniors to take those positions. It’s my belief that there will be a vacuum left that needs to be filled by people that can code, not just use AI to vibe code.

I could definitely be wrong, but it’s kind of cyclical like the dotcom bubble too. There was a surplus of devs, then a shortage. I think we’re approaching the latter. If/when the bubble pops, we’ll find out.

It’s expensive to get a degree, but I also think having at least basic coding understanding both fundamentally changes the way a person thinks for the better and to be good, you have to have a good breadth of knowledge on computers and a wide array of different processes across different fields, so you become a more well rounded person.

Anecdotally, I pivoted from sys admin for a decade to full stack in my mid thirties. I was fortunate to have a connection that got me in the door, and it’s been a lot of work starting over, but I’ve done it. You mentioned in your country that it’s not feasible, but maybe if you can find an in somewhere or if the landscape changes significantly enough that unavailable positions open up, you might be able to catch a break.

I bought 5 of these last September at $99 each https://ebay.us/m/x9d0kn. When I did some searching about a month ago, I found a couple for around $150 of the same model. So I paid less initially than I thought.

I’ve been putting 12tb used SAS drives in my Plex server. The used market went up about 30% from last year for the same drives. I think I paid $115 each before, now they’re $150.

You have the right to think whatever you want. You have the right to say almost anything you want. You lose that right when those actions start hurting others.

Your’s is just a dumbass response to be edgy. Go touch grass.

I’ve been preaching this for the past couple of years. Everything up until now has been entirely about gaining market share, and AI will never be cheaper than it is right now, and it’s not cheap.

Just look at the “earnings” for companies like openAI. They are 1000+% in the red. It’s impossible for them to change their sales model enough to make that profitable. As more data centers go up, the operating costs are also going to go up.

I’ve been telling people that now is the best time in the past decade or more to learn how to code. There will be positions available in the coming years when the only junior devs available are vibe coders.

I explicitly stated that he does represent the US, but that many of us didn’t vote for him or support him. Both can be and are true. We don’t want a war in Iran, but as you’ve pointed out, Trump was democratically elected, and there are processes to stop the war. Unfortunately, it’s not anything we can kick off as citizens.

There are protests, but when your healthcare and that of your family is tied to your employment, missing work to protest is a good way to not have a job, income, or healthcare. It’s not a simple as, “make change happen”.

Generalizing an entire population is a weak and shitty argument. You can do it if you want, but it just makes you look narrow minded and out of touch with how the world actually works.

The whole point is that the entire US doesn’t want a war with Iran and most don’t, even those that voted for Trump in hindsight don’t want it. They fucked us and got the country to this point, but war with Iran isn’t a popular opinion regardless of past actions.

This may come as a shock to you, but he wasn’t unanimously voted in as president. There are tens of millions of us that actively voted against him. Those that did and do support him can’t pretend like this isn’t the consequences of their actions, but the rest of us sure as shit can.

Even among the traitors and idiots that did vote for him, even the majority of those don’t agree with his war in Iran.

Have you have lived somewhere where you didn’t agree with your democratically elected official? It’s possible to be critical of that person’s actions and not be culpable for them.

Unfortunately, you are correct that he does represent the US, and that’s damage that will probably outlast my lifetime, but representation doesn’t mean reflection, and his actions don’t reflect the majority opinion in the US right now.

For this particular post, I don’t know that there needs to be a problem to get a response. OP could have just left out all of the back story and asked for new last name ideas. I think the story just adds a little context for the sake of conversation and to help scope potential reaponses. If it is for anonymity, just go with Smith.

I love everything about this, other than the people butthurt that their free software doesn’t like AI. I’ll give the smallest amount of criticism that it was obfuscated initially, because that’s just malware even if I think it’s justified. By clearly stating what it does, then the onus is on the user to audit the code and modify as needed. I would love to see more of this type of action to become standard practice, but just deleting the test suite isn’t quite painful enough for what I’d like to see.

I asked about it last year and my doctor said it probably wasn’t worth it. Mid 30s here.

Trolls gonna troll. This here is what we call a false equivalency. Paying to have a person use their skills to complete a complex technical task with liability is far different from using an environment destroying, unreliable and insecure technology that carries no liability to do a worse job. One funds a person that will circulate that income, the other goes to a mega Corp where a billionaire will sleep on that money like an IRL Smaug.

That implies there’s something to leak.

We had a rescue rottie that was aggressive when we got him. It took years but through controlled exposure to new people, some professional training, and just working through different situations, we got to the point that I was never concerned about him hurting any guests. Maybe he would body a small child because of his size, but never bite.

We currently have a personal trainer coming to help with our husky/pit/German shepherd rescue. She’s a great girl and unless you’re a rabbit, would never hurt you, but she’s very reactive on walks and when people walk by with their dogs. It’s helping a bit, but it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

So my anecdotal advice is to get a private trainer with recommendations and good reviews. Your vet may be able to guide you to someone or perhaps a local shelter or doggy daycare place. My wife volunteers at one of our local shelters and she found someone through networking there who also volunteers her training at said shelter.

In the interim, keep the dog separated from your daughter. Any way you can associate your daughter as a positive thing for your dog is good. Positive reinforcement is king