Paul Rietschka

Minneapolis now, France soon.

Formerly data science/machine learning, soon to be something else entirely.

Leaving tech, and so should you.

Last Notes

2026-07-18 23:56:11 CEST

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116937493213399942
This was quite a good convo.
Though I’d argue it’s the financial aspect that will collapse the bubble, not anything inherent to LLMs as a technology, i.e., the dogshit unit economics, the reality that compute demand isn’t there, the inevitable revelations of massive fraud in data center build out, and the preposterously inflated valuations coming down to earth.
Once OpenAI or Anthropic have a failed raise then the collapse will begin.
And it’s definitely coming; it will be bad, bad, bad.

2026-04-13 04:47:36 CEST

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You, my friend are delusional. What you just stated here is factually wrong, delusional, and incoherent.
Have you seen the shitshow that is the California gubernatorial field? Have you seen how Mamdani, the most popular Democratic politician in America has been treated? Have you seen Schumer and Jeffries? 78 year old Mills as the DNC pick in Maine?
Sorry bro, you may not “subscribe,” but you’re delusional and wrong.

2026-04-13 01:22:41 CEST

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This, in addition to their corruption, is why establishment Democrats will lose. But they’ll also drag down the party, and country, with them. Look at Starmer for what the future of America looks like.

2026-03-22 21:35:01 CET

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The look on Christopher Lloyd's face of "well...your generation will systematically strangle housing supply for decades so as to inflate your home values, which you'll then treat as ATMs while dismantling every social welfare program and rigging the tax code to serve yourselves...so...yeah?"

2026-03-17 05:56:28 CET

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Except c-suites have already planned for a 1/4-1/3 head count reduction, with AI as the excuse.
So failure is not an option, even if that means pretending.