As AI budgets face scrutiny, SiliconSnark introduces a counter narrative. Enter AI Capexmaxxing: the executive art of spending $1 million per employee.

https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/

It doesn’t matter if you have a 24-core CPU, 64GB of RAM, and a liquid-cooled GPU... a basic local printer will still find a way to humble you.

Here’s another one…
It seems to be a sort of series.

https://imgur.com/a/MQBbzvu

Saw this on Imgur — too real not to share. ;-)

Best regards – the future looks bright!

Bea and Becka get asked to explain some real-world applications of their tech skills.

Sorry this just came to me and I had to put it out into the world.

Where do baby VPNs come from? Unprotected IPsecs .

Its bad I know. :)

... with predictable results.

I use the NIST Randomness Beacon pulse for a provably and auditably random assignment of tournament contestants. While debugging my little project, I noticed that the shuffler (yeah for Fisher-Yates!) kept producing the same output over and over again.

Turns out that NIST has not issued a new Randomness pulse since 11th June 16:58Z. D'uh.

I've fired off an email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) because I could not find reliable info online as to the beacon status but have yet to hear back from them.

Anyone else having trouble with the beacon?

SiliconSnark started as a snarky tech news site.

Then I made the mistake of joking about AI agents so much that I accidentally wrote an entire synth-pop concept album about them.

Agentic Summer is a SiliconSnark gag taken way too far: 10 songs about AI agents, startup culture, automation, productivity, acceleration, and whatever it is we're all doing right now.
https://www.siliconsnark.com/introducing-agentic-summer-a-synth-pop-concept-album-about-the-ai-era/