armcat

Been discussing this in my network, and it seems everyone has a different interpretation of what we mean by "compute scarcity". Some have pointed out that GPUs are in fact heavily under-utilized and just sitting idle.

My understanding previously was that it was power/electricity issue (at least in the states). Hence why ppl in the countryside are disillusioned with the big tech since power is diverted to data centers to feed GPUs and cooling systems and they are either having power outages or their bills are going up (or both). Is that true though?

You also need real estate - you can't just build a data center anywhere. Ignoring the cooling issue for a second, it could be the reason why Google, SpaceX and others are considering orbiting data centers.

What's your take? Does anyone have more info? Is it actual GPU/silicon scarcity or power limitations or something else?

I had a chat with my team mate today and they brought up an interesting point. If AI is cooking our software and doing an amazing job, for us devs what does "great" look like? How do WE improve? How do we assess performance of us, i.e. "the humans"? What do we base salaries on?

Have you discussed this in your organisations? Does anyone have a plan? If your dev teams are creating scaffolding, harnesses, skills and getting CC to cook up everything, make PRs, perform reviews, find bugs, fix bugs, update architecture diagrams....what goals do you set in performance development talks?

Need some guidance.