FaceDeer

The world is changing. It happens from time to time. In this case the change is a particularly big one and it’s still ongoing, so I can’t make any predictions about where it’s going to end. But I can be pretty confident that it’s not going to magically change back. So my best advice is to try out the new tools, see whether you can adapt to them and use them to improve your own productivity in new ways, and if not then as a fallback start looking at other directions to take your career.

Harsh, perhaps, but the world does as the world does.

The best part of DS9’s Section 31 was that Section 31 knew they were the bad guys too.

Witches can be found everywhere once you start hunting for them.

And even if it was 100% vibe coded, how could one tell? The code has never been published before so there’s no way to determine its origin.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is based off of public domain sources but it is nevertheless under copyright itself. So even if the output of LLMs was public domain (not something that has been clearly or universally established) that doesn’t mean a project incorporating it would have to be. Public domain is not “viral.”

Citation needed, I’ve never heard that before and I’m seeing plenty of evidence of people behaving otherwise.

We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective.

I’m doubting we are in this situation. From the article:

Elsewhere, the Java developer said that Anthropic’s Claude AI code tool flagged the malicious instruction without following it.

The “disregard previous instructions” trick is really old and has been trained for by modern LLMs and accounted for by the structure of modern agent prompts. LLMs can be given blocks of text with a framework that makes it clear thar the text is just data to read, not instructions to follow.

I expect this will be like Nightshade was for image AI - something that anti-AI users degrade their products with and feel smug about but in the end only harm themselves with.

Give it a test and see how accurate it is, if it’s good enough then go ahead. People have been using AI-based OCR for literal decades already, nothing has fundamentally changed. There’s just a sudden moral panic about it lately.

Google: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. Prophetic words.

Nah, green is woke.

Your proof of how bad LLMs are is the fact that there are a bunch of other companies producing way better coding agents and coding models than Microsoft is? I’m not sure how that follows. Those other agents are good, that’s the point of this.

The Doctor’s my favourite character from that show, but I think the episode you’re probably referring to (Author, Author) went a little too on the nose with its allegory when it had a bunch of holographic doctors literally swinging pickaxes in a mineshaft inside an asteroid. The technological contrast was too jarring for me.

The US will become an increasingly isolated market, and thus increasingly irrelevant. Big enough to continue supporting some of its domestic manufacturers at a smaller scale, but the rest of the world can move on without them.

Ah, those are urine stains all over the holodeck.

That… I’m not going to say that’s better, actually.

You’d think that the holodeck, of all places, would be something that could be cleaned by a dedicated holographic synthetic serviceman.

Holojanitor: “What is my purpose?”

Negative examples are also useful when training AIs.

It’s fine if he doesn’t have any body.

I haven’t been watching Trek for a long time now, the only recent series I liked was Lower Decks. The Kurtzman stuff just hasn’t been doing anything for me. So I 'm happy that there will be an opportunity for a fresh start. I don’t mind a hiatus because I wasn’t watching anyway.

The price of liberty is constant vigilance, and so forth.

Yeah, I’m not bothered by the actual clicking of “I accept the GPL”, it’s more the misunderstanding of it that the existence of the click-through represents. If someone’s licencing their code I would hope they’d spend a bit of time researching how the license they’re using actually works.