Cons: Will probably lose my job and 401k.
Pros: Might be able to afford a video card by picking up a few extra shifts giving handjobs behind the Wendy's dumpster.
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Which Wendy's specifically? You know, so I can avoid it.
If you bring a 5090, it can be whatever Wendy's you want.
Can't wait to buy some god damn HDDs for my NAS when this is all over. Let the prices crash baby.
Will be interesting to see what the community does to the over-abundant vector matrizes calculators. Probably run DOOM on.
2 of the 6 drives in one of my pools is 7.5 years old. I found that out last week and had to bite the bullet to buy a spare and swap it in. Doing a resilver with those makes me cringe
I bought RAM just in the cusp of the jump. September I put it in the cart waiting for Black Friday and October came by and it was up 50% and I jumped on.
But I’m deleting stuff on my NAS. I neeeed some big drives.
I finally bit the bullet months ago and invested into LTO8 for my cold storage, I still need to buy drives at some point, but at least I've got a decent path to put shit in the mean time so I don't gotta delete anything lolol
I had a Beelink Me Mini and a half dozen NVMEs in my cart around that time, but didn't pull the trigger when the price started rising and now I'm kicking myself for it.
Amen
At this point, I'm not sure it will crash anymore. Reasonably it should have crashed months ago! Why didn't it?
Everybody knows it will crash.
Some very powerful people are going to lose a lot of money when it crashes.
They are doing everything they can to postpone the crash, or scam others into taking the fall.
Starting to look like the nuclear fusion energy thing. "It's going to be ready in 20 years!", they said for 50 years.
AI is good at a few things that have real world value. It recently dropped 200+ mathematical proofs that are real and genuine but are the lowest hanging fruit - they're the least creative unsolved problems in maths (now solved), ones that could be solved with enough time and work. Not a proof of intelligence, just a proof of computational power/duration.
That sort of large "solution space" exploration is stuff mathematicians might not have the time/patience for, but LLMs can do.
Likewise, producing content faster than humans can is another thing LLMs are really good at, with some reports already saying upwards of 50% of new content posted to the Internet is now LLM generated (dead internet theory).
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/
LLMs have also recently taken over game development, and gotten to the point that they're making full 3D scenes, and even videogames.
...and if you haven't heard, a team recently duplicated the Adobe Creative Suite of programs in about a week. Vibe coding in Rust with lots of Claude Opus.
Yep, it looks like "AI" is here to stay.
The biggest concerns are probably: it being able to "flood the zone" of content pushing certain ideas/narratives. Either from tech billionaire fascists, or foreign influnce campaigns.
So determining, monitoring, and countering any biases from that is probably going to be a huge challenge.
I doubt that we will get much better prices when the bubble crashes.