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Great, we will go from slop reports in security to slop lawsuits.

"Aaron Swartz was threatened with decades in jail for accessing (not disseminating) information; Sam Altman, whose company has accessed—and openly monetized—orders of magnitude more information than Swartz, has polluted and then regurgitated that information to the public, and gathered endless cash reserves from investors with which to fend off lawsuits challenging its commercial ambitions."

Ironic that this article is using emdashes, which means there is a 99% chance it was written using AI.

Swartz broke into a locked room and copied information he didn't own. A Hacktivist that had the mindset of a petty dictator: Do what I want or else. Someone like this should never be in charge of our future.

He's not a role model or someone we should admire.

Canada shares a border with the US. Replacing this means a permanent increase in cost for many goods and services. I just don't see this as a good long-term plan.

Most engimeering decisioms aren't made my engineers. Many times, the goalpost keeps moving while the deadline stays the same.

The end result is cutting corners and perfection is never even a thought.

I have a hard time with Caffeine. It will work for awhile, but at some point, I start getting massive anxiety and have to quit. Quitting takes me a week and comes with body pains and sometimes mild depression.

When I was in high school, I used to drink tons of Mt. Dew. I always thought having anxiety was just part of who I am. After quitting it for weeks and months at at a time, my anxiety mostly went away.

When specific movies were poorly reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes, apparently because they thought they were not genuine,the company pulled the reviews.

This is no different. I seriously doubt most of them are genuine and instead a way to post political commentary inappropriately.

I wish this was in the US. I've almost been hit multiple times by kids on an e-bike racing down the sidewalk not paying attention or using headphones.

Probably not. The Wordpress Bug Bounty program pays very little. Exploit brokers will pay 500K, but we wouldn't be seeing it here if it was sold.

Then why didn't we see the same writeup earlier? If you look through the writeup, you still need the skills to go through what the LLM gives you and actually create a valid proof of concept.

I've been using LLMs to find security vulnerabilities and there is no way I can just submit what I found and call it a day (many try).

Easy to do, when you don't need to put billions of dollars into research, and just have the end product.

It reminds me of socialized healthcare: wait for US companies to develop the drugs, buy a cheap generic, and somehow point to it as a superior model.

Really? I use claude regularly, and the Chinese models are far behind and feel like a cheap copy.

It's Linux on the desktop all over again. Next year will be its time.

Any large company in China is only allowed to get this way by direct control from the CCP.

This isn't really anything nee and I thought it was common knowledge by now.

The Chinese government is so nice and giving.

In fact, they have so much love in their hearts for the Uyghur people, they created a special mobile app for them, just to make sure nothing bad happens to them.

The LLMs will be invisible. Everyone will see the harness (the client app you use in your daily life that drives some LLM-based function).

This sounds like development/engineering will eventually go from a knowledge-based career to a factory worker, with a reduction in salary.

It takes way less knowledge and experience to guide an LLM, than it does to write it yourself. Especially if LLMs are already being trained on previous knowledge.

I'm already seeing people on Linkedin having almost no previous experience (or a Junior at best) getting hired as AI engineers.

Trump wasn't 'duped'. He did underestimate the level of involvement in Iran that would be required.

It is hurting China. Their economy has slowed to a crawl as a result of stalled oil and has delayed any real gains they had by at least a couple of years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/business/china-economy-gd...

Do you think Trump makes all of these decisions? Like all presidents, he has many advisors around him.

"The logic is that free, user-built companions inside mass-market general-purpose apps are impossible to moderate at scale."

I think they misspelled censor.

Americans can't even handle flock cameras. I would like to see their response to the level of control and spying in Chinese society.

This is a very rational view of it. AI is just a tool. I've found it useful in many ways, but I still can't completely replace all work with AI.

I would be careful with this demo. When you go to whatismyip.com, it's showing: 104.28.233.73. Someone could use this to cloak their IP address and do some damage.

You might not be hearing from these people.

I use LLMs daily to piece together technical reports and smooth out rough drafts. It saves me hours of time / week.

I also use it to augment my technical work, because I don't want to be out of a job one day with no marketable skills, except driving an agent harness.

There is a percentage of the population that thinks LLMs are actually intelligent and truly can't tell the difference.

I think others just want to live life as a passenger, not think, and have AI do all the work.

"the wealth it generates must benefit humanity."

Currently, it's very expensive and most companies are running at a loss to grab market share. Should tax payers fund these losses as well? People like Bernie Sanders only want to benefit from a situation where all risk is taken out of the equation and they can take the wins, which doesn't line up with reality.

In addition to this, it's relatively cheap for the average person to get access to AI, since it's essentially being subsidized by investors.

"Many LLM maximalists say they use the tech to learn new things, but to what effect? Are you going to apply that knowledge of physics or computer science yourself, or will you just prompt the LLM again?"

Many of the LLM maximalists I know don't have the skills or knowledge to excel in technology and need to use LLMs to do their job. It's seen as a cheat code to get work done.

As an example, A person I went to high school with that could barely figure out how to setup a Drupal site a few years ago, is now a frontier engineer at an AI startup. His Linkedin posts are filled with AI buzz words on a daily basis.

"It's inherently worth more because it's hard-earned and anchored to experiences we share. "

At some point, it will be impossible to tell the difference. Many people already can't tell if something was generated by AI.

We are heading toward less technical solutions, because too many people are trying to cheat the system using AI.

in-person interviews only and in-person testing only in college.

I would agree here. I've been working on computers since I was 13 and started coding when I was 15. Many of the old coworkers I had treated it like a job. They just wanted to get it done and go home.

It was very rare to find someone genuinely interested in it.

"Now it’s not about who can write the most code," he said. Instead, focus is on defining problems, designing systems and directing AI tools effectively, he said. “It shifts the skills around, so suddenly that’s where the value is."

It will be. What's going to happen is that once everyone is onboard with AI, it will become the new standard. As a software engineer, it will be expected to build and ship many more multiples of code, than being shipped today.

It's still baffling that so many engineers in the tech community are embracing a technology that will most definitely put them out of work. You will not be the exception.

I got out of software engineering in 2019 or so..just before the AI craze. My job seems to be pretty secure, for now.

At the elementary school level, it's just tablets. Many of the kids we know that are heading into middle school don't even know how to type on a keyboard.

This is why it's going to be a long time before companies will trust AI to scan their networks or apps for security vulnerabilities.

Our company audited a few AI-based pentesting companies and requested logs. In more than one case, it was sending drop tables for sql query injection checking and other destructive operations.

I suppose using this logic, murder is legal, because of self defense. Theft is legal because of tax laws.

Prisoners aren't 'slaves'. They are being punished for crimes they committed. Very dofferent than being born into it and bought/sold to the highest bidder.

Don't we want the cops called in situations like this?