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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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I love that for him.
If you need a new type of nuclear reactor to power your shit it means your shit is too complicated.
There are plenty of things that are complicated and could use a new type of nuclear reactor.
Training LLMs just didn't seem to be one of them
Nadella is adamant that these kinds of boosts that AI provides will justify AI and carry the industry, stressing less spectacular and more practical applications of the tech.
This is a huge about-face on the earlier proclamation. I really wonder what changed his mind from "AI will radically transform every industry" to "it doesn’t need to be used to discover the 'magical molecule,' but provide some other tangible, less extraordinary benefit to developing the product."
Sure, everyone here has seen the writing on the wall for years, but until now his paycheck has depended on him not seeing it. I wonder if he's getting internal pressure from some on the board of directors.
He's the guy gonna be left holding the biggest bucket of slop
Because his product isn’t winning?
I mean, none of them are. They're all over invested in a "product" that was DoA. And in the last few years, they've invested trillions of dollars.
It only takes one of these large companies to walk away for everyone else to panic and the bubble will burst. I really hope MS takes a step away from it and actually tries to innovate something.
Apple has been dragging their heels on AI from the start. They got sued by shareholders for not having enough AI in their products fast enough. Makes me wonder if they smelled the shit from the start and have been half-assing it on purpose.
Microsoft has been the opposite. If both of them shrug and say “I guess we’ll just have slightly better digital assistants”, the market might wake up and go “oh, shit.”
I think OpenAI and Anthropic could get ~~bailed~~ bought by MS/Apple/Google in a fire sale. Grok will just suck it or get propped up by Trump.
This is a pretty uninformed take, and maybe entirely influenced by the intentional marketing/PR image they crafted, but I get the impression that Anthropocene was more of a “building a practical tool with this technology, and iterating on that practicality” and less “this will be digital god” sort of company. Maybe ther value wouldn’t crater as much since they’ve been selling as a reasonably practical corporate tool than a magical profit box?
There's clearly an AI bubble. Let's just pop this shit and get it over with. The sooner the market corrects, the sooner it can start recovering.
Hey, it’s almost as if everyone is realizing that AI is total bullshit .
For anyone curious and lazy:
Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Nadella pontificated about what would constitute such a speculative bubble, and said that the long-term success of AI tech hinges on it being used across a broad range of industries — as well as seeing an uptick in adoption in the developing world where it’s not as popular, the Financial Times reports. If AI fails, in other words, it’s everyone else’s fault for not using it.
Nadella explained the pitfalls the AI industry would need to avoid, perhaps betraying his own anxieties about its future.
“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,” Nadella said, as quoted by the FT. The “tell-tale sign of if it’s a bubble,” he added, would be if only tech companies were benefitting from the rise of AI. He gave the example of a pharmaceutical company using AI to accelerate drug trials; it doesn’t need to be used to discover the “magical molecule,” but provide some other tangible, less extraordinary benefit to developing the product.
Nadella is adamant that these kinds of boosts that AI provides will justify AI and carry the industry, stressing less spectacular and more practical applications of the tech.
“I’m much more confident that this is a technology that will, in fact, build on the rails of cloud and mobile, diffuse faster, and bend the productivity curve, and bring local surplus and economic growth all around the world,” he proclaimed.
Thank you for being my laziness enabler. 🙏
I would wear a cape, but just too darn lazy.
Nervous that AI has been the biggest driver of people switching to linux, I did. I didnt want cortona and I certainly dont want copilot or recall
Don't forget the arbitrary hardware requirements due windows 11 just in time for pc components to go through the roof, leaving a ton of people unable to upgrade even if they wanted to.
seems like, if it's bad for microsoft, it's good for humanity.
Good, maybe he'll back off on pushing this crap.
Good, maybe it will be a huge fail and the stockholders will finally fire him.
Good.
I mean, they could shut down most of their shit tomorrow and still rake in twenty billion a quarter for the foreseeable future. Because businesses are stupid and pay for it.
He wants more adoption pre-bubblepop, but he’ll probably be the only one besides NVIDIA to actually make money on it. Eventually.
honestly if the technology is lightweight to run on ordinary PC, I'd have tinkered with it long ago. I did try once but it's pretty slow to generate texts on my laptop, I quickly lost interest.
But also the typical implementation of the tech is built on cloud, locked behind registration, is enough to turn me off. It's just like any other free useful tools but works via web that requires login, so I never bother to try.