Inderes Coffee Room (Part 11)

[Parsa]

@Wallet_Nahlroos

This video and also the amazing Darth Vader videos found on YouTube are many times better than what Hollywood, which has drifted into woke madness, has served up for a long time. Hollywood has mostly produced very cheap and poor goyim slop intended for Consumers.

This is where true storytelling and fine video art can begin, once power is taken away from certain movie studio owners—those attached to shekels.

Perhaps GOT will get a sensible ending since the fat old man GRRM couldn’t get it done…

Of course, if you only look at Hollywood’s narrow selection, which is only a very small fraction of all available films (a large part financially, of course). And ultimately, only a very small part of Hollywood’s entire production is involved in “woke madness.” This is indeed a well-sold MAGA myth, where a few individual films are picked and generalized to cover all of Hollywood, and even Netflix has been blamed because they’ve made a few “woke” things.

But in practice, in the future, we will only be watching animations made with AI instead of live-action.

[Salkkuministeri]

Retail investors now have the opportunity of the century to make a killing as software stocks correct back upwards.

[Ilkka6]

They’re so talented! Video 5 min.

Japanin parille ylivoimainen olympiakulta

[Sijoittaja-alokas]

Way to go, Olympic bronze for Ilkka Herola in Nordic combined!

Ilkka Herola hiihti yhdistetyn olympiapronssia

[atvate]

The fourth medal coffees of these Olympics are in the cup

[CitizenJ]

@Janaslainen

Added: 35 units of SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI UCITS ETF on top of existing holdings at a price of 254.xx €/unit including fees. I guess this beats a bank deposit, and I believe the split will boost the value slightly, at least momentarily.

Excellent purchase, but unfortunately, with ETFs, it’s futile to hope for any boosts caused by a split.

[Janaslainen]

Unfortunately, you are likely much more right than I am. Still, they say it’s better to live in faith and die in hope. I’m still planning to add more as soon as some cash from elsewhere lands in my bank account.

[vanha_Qfwfq]

@CitizenJ

ByteDance has made a couple of fight scenes using AI: Tom vs. Pitt.

Am I the only one who thinks this also looks like computer animation?

Kiinan uudenvuoden show marssitti lavalle entistä notkeammat humanoidirobotit

[Kurssintutkija]

@CitizenJ

ByteDance has made a couple of fight scenes with AI: Tom vs. Pitt. Quite a disruption might hit the film industry as well.

Soon we can all watch our own version of the Olympics where Finland sweeps all the gold medals

[N00B]

Was it @Pohjolan_Eka again who recently stopped by to give the forum hypesters the facts about drugs in development and new pharma companies, and how they destroy shareholder value?

I’m grateful, as I sold most of my Faron shares earlier after reflecting on things back then. I kept a small position, just in case something comes of it after all.

[eizbee]

The year turned in China, and for example, the image below made with drones was on YLE’s website.
Does any of you have information on whether that figure is 3D? Meaning, does the horse figure appear as some kind of horse from every direction, depending of course on the viewing angle? Have you found images of that fire horse from other angles?

[Kaitsuh]

(I wanted to reply to a post in the Market Direction thread, but it’s going off-topic so I’ll post it here).

Along the same lines (that societal divergence is widening), K-shaped economic development has already been a trend, and it’s simply going to continue more aggressively than we’ve seen. The bar for where one can actually produce value is rising insanely high.

And I wouldn’t lull myself into thinking, “well yeah, once we see the office bureaucracy and system rigidity, it won’t progress”… it probably won’t progress in FINLAND, but I wonder what happens when (foreign or even Finnish) AI-first companies run by a couple of guys emerge that do 100x the work of a 50-year-old Finnish “Bureaucrat-Pirkko” @ €5000/month in a single day.

I’ve been a coder in the software industry for over 15 years, and just at the turn of the year, agents finally reached a level where I can no longer justify the traditional way of working.

Today (while test-driving the latest Claude Opus 4.6), I implemented a partial payroll calculation for a certain Finnish sector’s collective agreement (TES) into our EU-wide system in 15 minutes. I got cleaner tests than I’d ever bother to write myself, and out of a “good week’s effective (2 weeks real-time)” scheduled implementation, 15 minutes was the agent’s work, and the rest is just me being sure enough of the output and explaining it to foreign testers. I spent the day trying to poke holes in it and find flaws; I haven’t found any yet…

As an EU-wide software company with over 100 developers, our junior recruitment has been frozen for years, and the headcount is slowly shrinking. Just today in the news, there was talk of how youth unemployment is rising in Finland… The education system reform failed the youth, but the bar has also risen insanely and keeps rising, and there’s no place for a young junior anymore unless they show up with their own portfolio, guns blazing.

A Finnish-style societal structure, with its grand promises and “A dignified life is when you get everything you want, a minimum wage of €3000, and of course, an apartment in the center of Helsinki,” is the worst possible fit for a situation where people actually have to start competing for their daily bowl of rice. The situation where the mass of retirees starts demanding their “promised pensions” and only 10% of young people are even capable of value-producing work…

[MoneyWalker]

Good post, and it at least partially matches my own experiences.

What do you mean by this?

@Kaitsuh

there is no longer a place for a young junior unless they show up with their own portfolio, with a lot of swagger.

[Kaitsuh]

I mean that now, if ever, a junior in the software industry needs to come to an interview with a portfolio that exceeds what even seniors at slower companies know (at our place, too, it feels like we’re just starting AI adoption because GDPR stuff etc. is scary).

So I would say that “hot stuff” consists of your own (and UNDERSTOOD + EXPLAINABLE) implementations of things like:

• Development skills utilizing AI and agents
• Ability to build AI workflows. How you connect your coding environment to, for example, Jira (a pretty common project management system). Do you know how to set up build pipelines in Azure for automated tests, AI code review setups. (Quite few of our seniors, including myself, know about these because the organization moves slowly)
• A personal project where you can demonstrate a full AI workflow… you write a ticket for a change in Jira, you get it implemented quickly in the development tool… it gets an automated AI code review, and a pull request for a senior to evaluate.

In practice, this means that as a junior, you can work in a completely AI-driven way, understand the process, and produce sensible output for seniors to review. This is something I don’t even know how to do myself, but I truly believe that only with such a portfolio is there a chance to enter companies as a “junior” now…

You can learn these things using various trial accounts, and for me, the full weight is on competence rather than what’s on paper—at least that’s how I’ve evaluated juniors in the past and especially now. Degrees matter even less now; the right mindset and the ability to understand are more important.

Edit: I’ve even read on Reddit how Finnish universities are still focusing on memorizing Java syntax etc… this is not the way.

[Tunturisusi]

Unreal New Year in Korea 🤯 | Fire Horse Drone Show at Gwangalli #Korea #travel #Busan #newyear2026

Probably a similar vibe over there. The fire horse itself starts at around the 7-minute mark. Quite a nifty performance all in all.

[Nallekarhu1]

@RahatonMies

Below is a structural analysis.

1. Mechanism: how AI can increase unemployment

This happens if automation advances faster than the economy manages to create new jobs.

High-risk job categories

Particularly tasks involving:

repetitiveness

rule-based nature

text processing

standard decisions

Examples:

customer service

entry-level analysis

translation work

administrative documentation

In these, AI can replace 30–70% of work tasks without major investment.

2. Mechanism: how AI reduces unemployment

Historically, technologies have ultimately increased employment because they:

lower production costs

increase demand

give rise to new industries

Historical examples:

electricity

the internet

industrial automation

All were feared → all created more jobs in the long term.

3. Most likely scenario on a 10-year horizon

Macroeconomic realism:

Time period

Impact

0–3 years

local job losses

3–7 years

structural change

7–10 years

equilibrium

So, in the short term, unemployment may rise in some sectors.

4. Where unemployment is most likely to grow

Most likely sectors:

routine office work

basic analytics

bulk-level content production

junior-level tasks

Important note:

AI replaces tasks, not entire professions

5. Where employment grows

AI increases demand especially in:

technical design

supervision and quality assurance

decision-making

creative work

physical jobs that cannot be automated

6. The greatest risk is not unemployment but this

Researchers consider the most likely impact to be:

growth in income inequality

Reasons:

high-skill productivity increases significantly

low-skill work doesn’t scale

7. Economic consensus forecast

Summary of most labor market models:

globally in 10 years

unemployment is unlikely to rise permanently

but the labor market will change drastically

Final analysis

Most likely realistic scenario:

AI increases temporary unemployment in some sectors, but does not lead to permanent mass unemployment globally on a 10-year horizon.

The biggest change is not the number of jobs but:

the structure of work

required skills

wage distribution

Condensed answer:

AI is unlikely to permanently increase global unemployment within 10 years — but it will change labor markets more profoundly than any technology since the internet.

Just as a side note: what? You actually went and asked AI if AI causes mass unemployment, posted its response on the forum, and you don’t see the irony in that?

[Sijoittaja-alokas]

Here is some important news about why Jeri the dog is so significant at the Olympics

– It feels good when he gets happy just because I come back to the room or go throw a ball for him. He is happy regardless of how the sports go.

The dog is also helpful because at the Olympics, everyone is so focused on their elite sports. A dog helps you get out of the bubble.

Eero Hirvonen avaa, miksi Jeri-koiralla on suuri merkitys olympialaisissa

[RahatonMies]

You probably realize I did that intentionally? The part of my message that you didn’t quote was my own reflection, which I used to compare against how AI sees things.

[Karhu_Hylje]

@Verneri_Pulkkinen

-If this were to happen, would the best investment now ironically be cash and fixed income? Rapid efficiency gains and mass unemployment would drive prices down. “Cash is king” in such a situation.

Before you start building up a cash position too much, @Verneri_Pulkkinen, it’s worth remembering, for example, last spring’s tariff dip and the “cash bros/jennas” thread and its outcome

[Verneri_Pulkkinen]

@Karhu_Hylje

Before you start building up a cash position too much, @Verneri_Pulkkinen, you should still remember, for example, last spring’s tariff dip and the “cash gang” thread and its outcome

Don’t attack the cash thread folks just yet, it brings bad luck.

At the index level, it doesn’t look like this, but for example, former retail favorite Revenio has sunk to new lows since spring 2025. And many other characters on the domestic exchange. There is similar movement under the indices elsewhere as well.