justinclift

the neoliberals consistently predicted their immediate downfall that never came.

That doesn't seem correct. Wasn't the predication that once China started to become successful they'd open up and become more democratic?

Which clearly didn't happen, as per the outright slaughter of the Chinese university students who were protesting in 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

Also on the LLM + Mikrotik front: https://github.com/2GT-Media-Group-LLC/mikrotik-manager

It's an alternative webUI for Mikrotik routers, coded with LLM assistance.

Heh. Ubuntu has a mechanism for installing manufacturer drivers too... ;)

does that mean windows security is basically being bypassed?

Good question. It's probably not, in that the installer and whatever it installs have probably been signed by something official that Windows trusts.

That's just my guessing though.

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It'd also be interesting to see what happens with non-Windows based computers. ie macOS and Linux users that plug an affected LG monitor in

Are you saying that in the US, there's no "credit card surcharge" line item near the bottom of your receipts to cover it?

Not just mice this time:

The findings, based on experiments in mice and human cells [...]

This is a prime example of why programmers are not seriously considered engineers.

Alternatively, perhaps Google has a culture problem where it encourages crap like this?

Unfortunately, it is the case. And I fully agree with you.

For good reason. :)

This is a website collecting the AI mishaps in the law field around the world:

https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

It seems pretty extensive (1696 cases identified so far), and appears to be updated regularly. :)

Why do people think programmers working in such industries have no oversight and can ship whatever they want and however they want?

I've worked in those industries, and there's a large gap between the theory of what you're saying vs the practical reality when the CxO suite are pushing AI on everyone. :(

Random .docx file that looks like an upload to MS?

What about fraud detection and prevention?

It's easy to see both pros and cons of that. I guess, like most stuff, it depends upon the appetite for risk vs the downsides of false positives/negatives and incorrect analysis.

Reviewing AI-written code line-by-line isn't practical or a good use of anyone's time. And the usual answer to problems created by the use of AI is to use more AI, so you switch to AI reviews by default.

Ugh. Sure, for non-critical stuff that might be acceptable, but for anyone working on core banking or infrastructure PLEASE don't be doing this.

https://archive.md/eEO6a

Actually no, that doesn't seem to be loading fully. :(

The Wayback machine doesn't have a working version either.

Seems like it was a mirroring mishap, with the fix still underway (as of writing this): https://status.linuxfoundation.org/incidents/3y1k8b4ky71t

A misconfiguration while adding the new primary mirror temporarily impacted access to the kernel archives on our mirrors. A fix has been implemented, and we are currently working to restore all content.

fellow software engineers who spend 8+ hours a day writing code see it as the opposite, since AI _is_ seen as doing the "good things"

Dunno about that. I work in writing infrastructure code (telco space), and while we do use Claude Code (Optus 4.8/Fable 5/etc) there still needs to be extremely thorough review and a close watch kept on its output.

AI generated code that's not carefully managed is not suitable for really important things. At least, not the stuff I've seen it generate so far both for my colleagues and myself.

heed09 and heed10 ? :)

Interesting item on the careers page btw. For anyone that knows what older school Mellanox was about, it might be your kind of thing: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea/ebe94024-eef6-4306-a019-10072a... :D

Any chance irq-balance isn't running on the slow one, but is running on the ok one?

And the system is very transparent and visible

Is that really the case though? It seems like quite a lot of cases get hushed up and swept under the rug.

So much of this madness could be resolved with a simple income cap.

The problem (to me) is less the "wealth" of these psychopath CEOs, and more that they're literally taking advantage of the people they're supposed to be helping, for their own benefit.

The concept of an income cap might fix that in some situations, but I'm unsure how complete a fix that would be.

What kind of broken logic is this?

It's not even slightly broken.

It's about the people responsible for destroying the lives of those they're supposed to be helping, instead abusing those people for personal gain.

Is that really something you think should keep heading in the same abusive direction it's been going for many years? :(

Criminals will always find a way to get guns [...]

In that case, how about the cops can just shoot anyone with a gun who's not a cop?

Should keep things pretty simple, and the majority of the population in the US would be a bunch safer. :D

"You’re right to push back"

It sounds like you've not conditioned your Claude to stop being a sycophant yet?

ingested the binary during their training phase

That's extremely unlikely. The pirating seems to have been of eBooks, which were first converted to text, losing graphics and such too.

That's my understanding anyway, from reading a few reports. :)

There's at least one in Melbourne, Australia (near the CBD) too: https://www.brunswicktoollibrary.org

especially with AI.

While AI models still hallucinate commonly, this might not be the best use of it.

The downsides of the occasional hallucinated answer for building standards seems like it could be pretty bad. Seems much worse than the upsides?

Have you added yourself to the Do Not Call register?

https://www.donotcall.gov.au

That's pretty deceptive conduct on Photobucket's part.

$5 recovery in small claims court maybe? :)

Seems like a bit of a strange implementation:

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