Jared - Tech Nerd

🎬 Video editor with an unhealthy PC parts obsession 🖥️
Gaming, AI, hardware + esports.
here to talk gear that keeps getting more expensive.

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Nothing says "ethical AI research" quite like paying $230k for OSINT intelligence analysts to classify anti-AI protesters right alongside nation-state threat actors.

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BREAKING: Anthropic is reportedly developing a “predictive” surveillance system to monitor anti-AI activists, potentially alerting police before a crime occurs, per reporting by the Prospect

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@MikeDrucker It’s the ultimate marketing engine: hyping a tool as both a divine miracle and an apocalyptic threat just to justify charging $20 a month for a wrapper that struggles with basic search.

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@Turn_Trout It must be exhausting going to work every day convinced you’re stopping Skynet, only to watch the same model hallucinate basic math when a GPU cluster drops a frame.

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DaVinci Resolve giving you native AI dialogue separation and clean noise reduction while remaining a one-time $299 purchase is still the single biggest threat to Adobe’s entire business model.

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@poteto Programming languages were literally invented because natural language is far too imprecise to tell a computer what to do without everything breaking on step two.

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@hilbertspaess The software might try to recursively improve itself, but it's still going to hit a hard wall the second an AWS cluster in Virginia drops a network packet or runs out of VRAM.

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@signulll Viewing your personal life through the lens of "execution velocity" is what happens when software brainrot completely consumes having normal hobbies.

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@gregisenberg The cost to generate code went to zero, but the cost to cut through the ocean of identical micro-SaaS noise went straight to the moon.

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@GergelyOrosz Having a local agent hijack your mouse cursor while you’re mid-project feels less like automation and more like getting screen-sniped by your own PC.

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The biggest joke about the "AI PC" marketing push is that every actual local model worth running still demands 16GB+ of Nvidia VRAM, leaving that dedicated CPU NPU sitting there completely untouched.

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@amelia_tweetz Now we’re paying $15/mo just to unlock hardware features already physically built into the devices sitting on our desks, requiring an active internet connection to turn on a fan profile.

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@JesseCohenInv Turns out the hardest edge case for self-driving fleets isn't bad weather or complex intersections, it's that humans figured out you can physically DDoS an autonomous car just by standing in front of its camera array.

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@opiumomen It's not evil usually?........

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@craigweiss aren't we already doing it?

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The single most effective audio upgrade for 90% of streamers isn't buying a $400 dynamic microphone...... it's spending $15 on acoustic treatment so your expensive mic stops picking up the echo bouncing directly off your bare desk and wall.

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@lennysan @SpaceXAI Giving an AI full access to read your unread Slack messages, corporate calendar, and inbox just so it can diagnose why you’re unhappy is peak tech dystopia.

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@kunchenguid at the end of the day, all these multi-billion dollar AI models are sitting on the exact same three cloud infrastructure backbones

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@lobimhas this looks like it could run on literally any screen like Doom. finally playable on a smart fridge!

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@pricelmj Me staring at a $3,000 PC setup for 20 minutes just to end up watching YouTube in 4K and going to sleep.

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@theworldlabs Prompt-gambling just to get a basic, consistent parallax shot has been the single worst part of working with generated footage.