It’s funny, because technically they are hurting themselves in multiple ways. They are investing loads of money in AI. Then using the same technology to produce crap that no one wants. People are starting to lose trust in their OS because of all the issues.

AI is now using up all the resources, making gpus and memory skyrocket. People are not going to be able to afford PCs for gaming. Most people that want to stay on windows are gamers. While Linux is getting better, it’s still a shit show when it comes to Nvidia cards.

With Apple releasing a budget computer, this opens the door for everyone else. These devices are also fast enough and last way longer on battery life. They can also be more powerful in other ways as well.

Enterprise is another big user of Windows, but we can already see Europe and other places moving away from Microsoft products due to privacy concerns.

You can easily manage apple devices at an enterprise level. You can also do the same with Linux, albeit it’s a little harder. The only other thing people are missing in enterprise are the collab tools. But tbh, Google stack is actually good enough for that. Then people use slack for chat, which is way better than teams, even if it’s now owned by Salesforce. Then zoom for video calls. Even on this stack, it’s typically around the same price, if not cheaper than Microsoft anyway.

Because of all these things, Microsoft is literally choking themselves out.

Personally, I already use a MacBook for work. It’s a good balance between Linux and Windows and makes my life easier. I use Windows right now because of gaming and using an Nvidia card. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be using Windows right now. As soon as AMD releases their next gen gpus, I’m gone.

Microsoft dug their own grave and are slowly lowering themselves into it.

Nah bro. Just tell the agent to be a super duper distinguished software developer and write no bugs and keep the code maintainable /s

Recently had to lay someone off because they just weren’t producing the work that needed to be done. Even the simplest of tasks.

I would be like we need to remove/delete these things. That’s it. It took some time because you had to just do some comparison and research, but it was a super difficult task for them.

I would then give them something more technical, like write this script and it was mostly ok, but much better work than the simple tasks I would give.

Then I would get AI slop and I would ask WTF are you thinking here. Why are you doing this? They couldn’t give a good answer because they didn’t actually do the work. They would just have LLMs do all their work for them and if it requires them to do any sort of thinking, they would fail miserably.

Even in simple PR reviews, I would leave at least 10 comments just going back and forth. Got to the point where it was just easier if I would have done it myself. I tried to mentor them and guide them along, but it just wasn’t getting through to them.

I don’t mind the use of LLMs, but use it as a tool, not a crutch. You should be able to produce the thing you are giving the llm to produce for you.

This is really interesting. I currently have a z800 running as a backup for my nas, but it’s overkill and uses a lot of power. I also had to do some weird stuff to get set up properly. This setup might actually work for me. I have a bunch of mini pcs I could probably use. I just need to be able to add a 10gbe nic and I’ll be good to go.