Sunday, September 21
Daily News Stuff 21 September 2025
Inexpensive Edition
Inexpensive Edition
Top Story
- There isn't an AI bubble. There are three separate and distinct AI bubbles all happening at the same time. (Fast Company)
As the article explains, there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and while they all interact and reinforce each other, you need to examine them separately to try to figure out what is really going on.
Yes, generative AI CEOs are all lying to you, but how much does that matter if you're not an investor?
As to how much value will remain when the bubbles burst, I don't know. If I knew that I'd still be rich from the last bubble.
Tech News
- AMD has relaunched its $40 Ryzen 3000G. (Tom's Hardware)
This is an AM4 motherboard, a platform that is still readily available new. It's the slowest AM4 CPU ever made with just two cores and four threads, but then it is $40.
Be careful if you buy it because it's not compatible with every AM4 motherboard. There are so many different AM4 CPU models that many motherboards ran out of BIOS space and had to drop support for some of those CPUs, and the 3000G has been a prime target for saving space.
- Vibe coding creates brain dead programmers. (NMN)
Written by a programmer who gave vibe coding a try and felt brain dead afterwards.
- I see you are doing your homework. Would you like to cheat on that? (MSN)
Clippy would never. Google, on the other hand, had to take down the helpful cheat-on-my-homework link in Chrome after teachers complained.
- Interlune has an order for 10,000 liters of Helium-3 per year starting in 2028. (MSN)
That it plans to collect from the Moon.
- All the packages that were compromised in the latest NPM supply chain attack. (Koi)
It's a disaster.
Again.
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Lots of people are investors without realizing it. Retirement savings, market index funds, bonds from utilities, customers of said utilities. Any institution that holds investments such as insurance companies and possibly some banks.
The knock on effects will be widespread.
Posted by: Dan from Pennsylvania at Sunday, September 21 2025 10:38 PM (79m0J)
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" know that it's gonna take a minute or so before I get the answer. What am I supposed to do in the meanwhile, think? The AI is already going to do that for me, much faster, and will give me the correct result (probably.)
I check back. It's done. There's a brief hit of dopamine when I see that it's completed. Cool.
I check the code (I lied, I just read through what it tells me it's written and not the actual code). It's good enough, but of course the AI has made some wrong assumptions so there's some mistakes.
I give the AI another prompt to fix this, and we repeat our little dance."
People who do this deserve everything that happens when it inevitably goes wrong.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, September 22 2025 02:33 AM (1zWbY)
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Yeah, I found after talking to someone that I did not buy the optimistic take on the three bubbles. Marble urn wise, I select N people from my own organization, or managers and execs hired from elsewhere, or fresh hires from a university. How many of them are sane enough, and oriented to reality enough, to tell me how to extract real value using a technology that already exists? This is at least two different topics (economics and technology), and lots of people now are pretty cracked.
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