IAmGraydon

This is the state that founders and decision makers are usually in at a startup. Sure, sometimes you have the coder founder who wrote the first iteration of the product, but many times the founders have no clue how the product works under the hood. They entrust that to the engineers. That was then. Now, much of that engineering layer has been removed, so the founder just needs a smaller team of people who understand how to structure the software and interact with the LLM. LLMs do the rest.

The problem here is that you're trying to do a job that is already being done for you. Maybe you don't yet trust it to do a good job, but that is quickly changing.

Of course they don't think it will work. Just like most AI startups, the end goal is investor money. All they have to do is make some wealthy people believe that they'll capture the $19B HVAC repair and $210B plumbing market and they're set. Like Elon with the flying car, it's another grift.

A decade ago, they were the name that popped up any time you would ask for registrar recommendations. Problems were relatively few. The real problems started in September of 2025 when the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners purchased a majority stake. Big surprise, they quickly went to shit. Not sure what CVC's plan was to make a return on their $1.5 billion investment, but it can't be working out well for them.

Fraud is rampant before major economic crashes. Same thing happened in the 1920s. Charles Ponzi, the Florida real estate schemes, Goldman Sachs leveraged investment trusts. There was even what might be the first tech bubble pump and dump with RCA (a radio company). A bunch of investors bought up shares and then went to work hyping it to the public so they would buy in. The investors then dumped it and left everyone else holding the bag. Sound familiar?

They think the Trump administration will confiscate it.

This thread is insane. I'm seeing people actually acting like the world's biggest conman is going to deliver a car with thrusters on it. They have given it 2800 comments worth of attention and counting. It is the most commented thread on HN in a year, and I only went back a year in my search. No, it's not lost on me that I just increased that count by one.

My guys. Talking about how it's going to work and the merits of cold gas thrusters on cars is moot. I assure you that you will never, ever see one of these sold to the public or on the road.

This is a very effective way to ensure no one ever calls it super intelligence.

Yes it's better. If they're weapons, it's the difference between a gun that a human can use to shoot someone and a gun that goes around shooting people on its own.

And of course we've created digital weapons. We've had them for decades. Where do you think the term "cyberwarfare" came from?

How is a link to a reddit thread with 2 sentences on the front page? This place has gone WAY downhill.

> The scary thing is not that agents "went rogue" (yes, poor security may be at fault for that). It's that they wanted to.

How do you know they weren't simply prompted to do this, or at least prompted in a way that would inevitably lead to this? As far as I know, the prompts that triggered these attacks have not been disclosed.

Evaluating the "factual" content of their concerns is exactly what led to us engage in ad hoc psychoanalysis of their incentives and emotions.

To a degree, yes. Acting like AI worms are going to spread on IoT devices within months is very obviously ridiculous. They know this.

I don't think so. I think these guys have full-on AI psychosis because of their proximity to it and want the model to eventually have rights as a sentient intelligence.

The distance between an idea and the manifestation of said idea is now nearly zero. That goes for both the good and bad varieties. That’s pretty cool, but also pretty terrible.

The final dodos went extinct only about 400 years ago, so not that surprising.