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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-use...

This is only the most recent example. Plenty of headlines like this one if you'd even bother to look.

Why is it so hard to generate with other models, but trivial with Grok?

And for generating an absolutely gargantuan amount of CSAM and non-consensual sexualized images, but yeah, exfiltrating data too.

5% is awfully optimistic! More like the 0.01%.

owned by all participants

How does this work in practice? In my experience, any metrics owned by a group inevitably languish and are largely ignored.

Anything you want to improve needs a DRI.

Blind hatred? Given that, among a multitude of other things, he willingly threw out some sieg heils I think the hatred was easily earned.

It's easy to deliver things fast when you don't care at all for the local communities or residents whose lives you ruin in the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo (@ 4:08)

If it's actually your 401k, sure you can. Just today I rebalanced my retirement funds away from large cap stocks to avoid this steaming turd that Elon is dumping on the public.

Not OP, but:

1. At my level, the company is not just paying me to do a task the way they want it done, they are paying for my experience to orchestrate the best way to do it. They want an outcome, and I'm responsible for figuring out how to get to that outcome with the right balance of cost, correctness, etc. But yes, the most dystopian reality is what you said.

2. It's not useless, but the AI generated code is absolutely lower quality than what I would have written myself, but there is no desire to clean it up. Companies have always had a disastrously bad understanding of technical debt and they finally have tool they can shove down developers throats that trades even more velocity for even less quality. They're going to take that trade every single time.

We're not perfect. We've done bad. But, you won't find another nation on earth or in history who has contributed as much to global progress, stability and well-being.

Ooook... but

Defending the United States of America is never the wrong move.

is not the correct logical conclusion from that. The correct conclusion would be that it is our ability to reflect on the bad things we've done that have allowed us to make forward progress.

Universally defending something without considering the circumstances and context is rarely ever the correct stance.

I don't really think its fair to lump hams into that behavioral bucket. It's certainly a personality type that tends to get attracted to lots of different technical hobbies.

But it was also flat last year and the financials are atrociously bad. Reality is catching up.

I used to be friends with Jack back in the day, before this AI stuff even all kicked off, once you know who people really are inside, it's easy to know how they will act when the going gets rough.

This sounds quite backwards to me. It's been abundantly clear in today's times that, in fact, you only really know who somebody really is when they're under stress. Most people, it seems, prefer a different facade when there is nothing at stake.

And given that in Austin they just reached parity with Waymo (i.e. completely unsupervised robotaxi service), they are not doing badly.

Parity is not defined by how willing one is to let their robots kill the general public.

This is purely anecdotal but I've heard from other riders that the car tells you when it's happening, and it's never happened in my 10+ rides so far.

Tesla won't achieve true safe autonomy without a significant change in strategy.

Source: I worked in AV V&V for a decade.

Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else.

Why would I even bother getting mildly invested in this when the product launch/promotion incentive structure at Google is so well known?

Personally, I prefer prepending `uv` to my commands because they're more stateless that way. I don't need to remember which terminal my environment is sourced in, and when copying and pasting commands to people I don't need to worry about what state their terminal is it. It just works.

I haven’t used it for sim racing but I’ve used it for flight sim and never noticed the latency being problematic.

What frameworks would you recommend for new people learning about embedded systems?

It's deliberately incomplete. You can be completely factual and, simultaneously, intentionally deceiving.

It's pretty hard to kill 40 people in 5 seconds with a knife.

If you penalize the rich, they just move, and then the new system will stop class mobility.

This is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them.

But if they do choose to leave, or at least stop expanding their businesses, you can’t deny the rational self interest

"If you tax the rich, they will leave" is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them.

In the middle of the 1900s, the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans was 91%.

Nobody is going to leave over Mamdani's extremely modest proposal.

in particular I'm not sure why the fluff bits about Musk "being a regular guy" are relevant

They're relevant because this was almost certainly written by a PR firm being paid by Musk to resuscitate his 32% approval rating.

Everything you said is 100% correct.

However, part of designing and upholding a safety-critical software development process is looking for places to reduce or eliminate the introduction of bugs in the first place.

Strong type systems, for example, eliminate entire classes of errors, so mandating that code is written in X language is a pro-active process decision to reduce the introduction of certain types of bugs.

Restricting the use of AI tools could very much be viewed the same way.

Moreover stock prices incorporate a variety of factors that are irrelevant to wealth distribution.

This handwaves away the most important fact w.r.t. stocks and wealth distribution, which is that wealthy people own stocks and poor people don't. A whopping 38% of Americans don't own any stock.

How is this not exactly the same in engineering though? Performance reviews at top tech companies are pretty much designed to identify the super high performers and shove massive bonuses and equity grants their way.

And those equity grants are effectively as good as cash, since they are publicly tradable stock.

I still like the money and the number going up. But now that it’s above a certain multiple of what I consider a “comfortable” life, I’m not worrying as much.

I agree, but that number for most people is not the $207k/yr Oxide is paying.

For most people that number is likely north of $500k, if not single digit millions.

Modern safety analysis acknowledges that humans are fallible, and they are generally acting in a good faith way to try and do their jobs correctly within a given system they are operating in.

That's why these reports tend to suggest corrective actions to the parts of the system that didn't work properly. Even in a perfectly functioning safety culture, an employee can make a mistake and forget to install the bolts. A functioning safety system has safeguards in place to ensure that mistake is found and corrected.