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by rotis 8d ago
Maybe it's just a secret cabal of rogue agents downloading LibreOffice for no particualr reason whatsoever? I mean there is a precedent already: those fellas hijacked some poor wiki.
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by rotis 16d ago
In many (most?) companies it also takes nontrivial amount of time to patch potentially affected systems. In my company half IT department got recently an email that we need to urgently patch all Windows servers because of some critical CVE.
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by rotis 17d ago
Later on he gives an example of Blackboard software that was very disliked. So I don't see what was unique in his perspective either. To me this article is not very focused and feels mostly like rambling. The core idea that we get accu
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by rotis 27d ago
Sure. I don't give a damn about them. But Phil Collins man. I love reviewing his body of work before I get worked up. Obvously we cannot cut him, because I need him. So how do you decide what to leave out?
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by rotis 1mo ago
This site's trustworthiness when it goes for pre-aquisition data was disputed here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086786
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by rotis 1mo ago
Reminds me of this story from Windows land by Bruce Dawson (and similar on his blog): 63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocke... Looks like Linux i
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by rotis 2mo ago
So the AIs end up being silly like in this video? 10 AIs Play Mafia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhBtg-lyKdo
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by rotis 3mo ago
I have problems reconciling this story with the Amazon one from few days ago. If we take both for truth doesn't that basically imply Amazon researchers got scared by the ‘Fix this code’ prompt first and then spooked the feds? Shouldn&#
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by rotis 3mo ago
Agentic engineering? Vibe coding? That is so yesterday. Chain-of-thought flow is where it is at now. You heard it here first folks. Early examples of such phenomena include Rube Goldberg machines
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by rotis 4mo ago
https://x.com/i/status/2053560589327180255 I sense a pattern emerging.
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by rotis 4mo ago
Are you suggesting intelligent design got us here?
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by rotis 4mo ago
Not really convinced by the first graph (and following too). According to it on a 10 year old project developers only manage to spend 10% of their available time adding features because rest is consumed by maintenance? By 10 year landmark I
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by rotis 4mo ago
Got it. Vibe coding is all about the end result, damned be the way we got there. So I assume agentic engineering must be the opposite here? Don't care what we will cook. If I get a calculator while asking for integrator that is the tru
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by rotis 4mo ago
Caring about what? I could slap an application and say I vibe coded it or I could equally claim I agentically engineered it. No one could tell the difference(if there is any) without seeing the code. The only thing you could say I used an L
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by rotis 4mo ago
> my disturbing realization that vibe coding and agentic engineering have started to converge in my own work. >I firmly staked out my belief that “vibe coding” is a very different beast from responsible use of AI to write code, which
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by rotis 5mo ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/69f0dc83-ec70-83eb-896b-b258de2c9f... https://claude.ai/share/ac4d2041-4328-4511-904a-ff8b1cbfc0bb Looks like self-censoring to me. Grok has no problems answering, so it
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by rotis 5mo ago
I don't have a problem with AI assistance either, but this undermines the point the article is making. For me it is like a priest preaching gay sex is wrong and then being caught in bed with a male prostitute (snorting cocaine optional
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by rotis 5mo ago
He writes 2,253 candidates and 2,069 were disqualified. 184 were qualified, so 1 in 12 was considered competent.
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by rotis 7mo ago
Asking ChatGPT about safety of someone traveling instead of asking that person is the nerdy thing to do. Somehow a hairstylist doesn't invoke image of a nerd in me. That is why I find this story implausible.
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by rotis 11mo ago
Agreed. Lead main source in nature is galena, which is relatively nontoxic. It rarely occurs in metallic form.
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by rotis 1y ago
The fire started on 26th September and news about it reached HN only now. I think this is telling how disruptive for South Korea daily life this accident really was.
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by rotis 1y ago
Reminds me of one of the stupidest hacks I discovered (In my mind). In one of my previous companies we had many similar Lotus Notes databases and one of them didn't allow to copy text from it. You could paste, I'm sure. You could
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by rotis 1y ago
I'm sceptical a layperson will understand or care what it means that their data will be used in training. If you are concerned about such things this heavily implies you don't want to share your data. Just don't agree to the
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by rotis 1y ago
Exactly. This is a basic optimization technique and all the dinosaur era databases should have that. But if you build a new database product you have to implement these techniques from scratch. There is no way you shortcut that. Reminds me
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by rotis 1y ago
Everything else aside moving to R and Python to escape the USA hegemony means you are still dependend on Python Software Foundation and R Fundation. First is American. Second is based in Vienna, Austria yet still has big American presence a
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by rotis 1y ago
All that and who will pay for it? Politicians? They use taxpayers money. Companies? They will pass on the bill to the customers. So in the end same group will experience higher prices. I can't wait for all the poor becoming poorer.
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by rotis 1y ago
Yes, this paper and many others will be forgotten as soon as they leave the front page. Afterwards noone refers to articles like these here. People just talk about anecdotes and personal experiences. Not that I think this is bad.
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by rotis 1y ago
That's another issue I have with this article. It lists the risks, but does not provide any specific well documented examples. It (and many others privacy related) does not try to quantify them either. Driving a car, flying a plane pos
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by rotis 1y ago
The author defends mediocore code, yet wrote this piece: https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/ Where he dunks on how SSH access works in VSCode. I don't know. The code and architecture behind this feature may w
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by rotis 1y ago
I dunno. Cultural exchange has positive connotations in my book.

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