The fact it is unused is the increased cost. If it were fully utilized, it would be a justifiable cost rather than a waste of resources.
Code line counts is so 30the century. Now the best way to measure is the number of AI tokens burned per hour. /s
MasterBlaster
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Yes, I know. Like I said, "can't" do the math expected of their employees for their work. Theare able to measure the kilowats going into millions of homes, but can't measure the kilowatts they consume. So they get potentially 90% of the electricity dirt cheep, but charge everybody as if they paid the highest price on the market for all of it.
The lower rent point is one of the problems. Many of these businesses own the real estate or lease for many years at a time. If the space is 70% unused, that increases costs and looks bad.
Funny how these businesses are able to tailor prices to individuals by spying on them, but they can't figure the math to calculate their costs by source.
Convenient problem, isn't it?
Haven't read it yet, but I'll share my instant reaction to the headline.
"Oh, now that it is hitting the management, finance, and business jobs, you notice it? The people who kept you all in business (I.T., software engineering, etc.) Who've been fired constantly for four fucking years don't count, do they?"
This really needs to be in "leopards ate my face"
That's a bold admission. I guess they aren't worried about people questioning either how the know or how they are able to remotely control our routers.
Another bit of evidence of the dystopia.
This is standard operating procedure for China. It is how they "somehow" leapfrog U.S. technology innovations and mass produce them for their profit.
If you pay enough attention, you will notice that the difference between extreme right and extreme left is only in the politics they worship. They are the same.
Remember, the non-extreme on both sides generally want similar outcomes, but seek them through differing ideologies. Both are likely part right and part wrong.
Then there are the other non-extreme ones that have an agenda of self-enrichment and are their own variety of evil.
I personally believe more (not all) of those lean right, but I acknowledge I am influenced by my own political point of view.
Actually... "He's not only hurting the people he needs to be hurting!"
Don't even care enough to do some basic research yourself? Lazy thinking is one reason we are in the huge clusterfuck we are experiencing as a society.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-jobs-layoffs-us-2025/ In case you can't motivate to click the link, here's the money shot:
For the first seven months of 2025, rising adoption of generative AI technology by private employers accounted for more than 10,000 job cuts, according to a report released this week by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm lists AI as one of the top five factors contributing to job losses in 2025.
If you think that's a fluke,
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/20/in-job-losses-ais-role-may-be-bigger-than-companies-say.html
And if you are one of those guys who considers these to be "woke" fake news sources, how about Forbes?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/07/17/ai-tech-layoffs/
AP: https://apnews.com/article/ai-layoffs-tech-industry-jobs-ece82b0babb84bf11497dca2dae952b5
A new report Wednesday from career website Indeed says tech job postings in July were down 36% from their early 2020 levels, with AI one but not the most obvious factor in stalling a rebound.
ChatGPT’s debut in late 2022 also corresponded with the end of a pandemic-era hiring binge, making it hard to isolate AI’s role in the hiring doldrums that followed.
Fortune: https://fortune.com/2025/08/08/ai-layoffs-jobs-market-shrinks-entry-level/
Note that these are all very recent, but the data they reference goes back to the debut of ChatGPT.
Whether AI is actually good enough to replace jobs is irrelevant. Executive leadership believes it is, and thousands of jobs were already eliminated this year.
If one person can do the work if 10 people with the help of AI, why would a bean counter keep the other nine, all else being equal?
CoPilot generated code for me that would have taken a couple hours to write from scratch. I'm a software engineer. Let that sink in.
My career has seen a steady drop in employment since 2022. The statistics are out there for anyone to find.
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I retired my tp-link Touter over 10 years ago when I learned of their security problems and that they are Chinese.
I hope most other people Savvy enough to buy their own routers rather than just take the one from the isp, would also be smart enough to research the routers for security.
That's not to say we get it right, but at least we try. I use Asus and installed the open-source firmware that has over the air updates that I can review before I install. It receives regular security fixes, and I block all ports except one that I use for certificate backed VPN.
Hopefully, it does not have a backdoor like the ISP routers. In that case, all bets are off.