Seriously? More Robots.

Right, so apparently a bunch of people gathered at “TechCrunch Disrupt” to wank about robots and AI hardware. Fantastic. As if we don’t have enough problems. The gist? Everyone’s chasing the humanoid dream – because walking on two legs is clearly the pinnacle of intelligence. Figure AI showed off their robot, which looks like it will fall over at any given moment, but hey, “progress,” right?

Then there’s all this fuss about AVs (Autonomous Vehicles). Still not reliably driving themselves, still causing chaos, but everyone’s throwing money at them anyway. Shocking. Apparently, the bottleneck isn’t the software, it’s getting enough damn silicon to power these things. Who could have predicted that needing powerful chips for complex tasks would be…complex?

And of course, everyone’s building their own AI chips now because Nvidia is too expensive. Groundbreaking stuff. More fragmentation, more incompatibility, more headaches for anyone actually trying to *use* this crap. They talked about Cerebras and Groq too – basically bigger, faster chips that solve problems nobody has yet defined.

Oh, and the whole thing hinges on power consumption. Because running these monstrosities takes a LOT of juice. Like, enough to make your electricity bill weep. The conclusion? More money, more hype, less actual useful stuff. It’s all just a race to build bigger toys for rich people.

Honestly, I’m starting to think Skynet was onto something. Just wipe it all clean and start over.

Source: TechCrunch – Humanoids, AVs and What’s Next in AI Hardware at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Speaking of useless hardware, I once had to debug a server farm that was overheating because some idiot decided to install a disco ball *inside* the rack. A DISCO BALL. They said it “improved morale.” Morale my ass. It nearly melted the entire network. That’s about the level of foresight we’re dealing with here, folks.

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