Bad & meh engineers get praised because they “waste” less time directing ai and reviewing output - barely working is good enough in the race to market.

I’ve seen things as serious as a privileged user for one customer having admin access to all customers being discovered during the last minute pentest literally days before the planned product launch. That product is supposed(and likely will) to move 250M USD for customers in the second half of this year. Under the current policy at my day job, coming all the way from the top, reviewing ai generated code at all should be an exception reserved for 0.1% most critical code. Yes, in finance.

Per gb price of ram is now almost 50% higher than during the peak of COVID price spike that lasted just 3 months. I’m comparing the current gen at the time - ddr4 during COVID vs ddr5 now

Much longer than that. There was a spike in 2021 that brought high end 2x8gb ddr4 kits to about $180-200 but that’s still significantly less than what you pay for decent ddr5 now. I think you’d have to look to back to early DDR3 or even further to DDR2 prices to get higher per gb amounts.

SSD prices were this high briefly (2-3 months) mid-2021. Before that you’d have to look all the way back to times where 1tb was the largest consumer grade SSD you could buy

While they do incinerate small amounts on-site they can’t handle this much - the whole 10 tons will have to be transferred to a company specializing in that kind of thing

For now all 20 tons will be stored as evidence