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I’m reading through these now, but could you explain your point in sharing these? I just want to make sure I get it

Genuinely curious, what’s examples of engineering classes you had that the CompSci did not in those +2 years? Are you talking about a 3 year CompSci (bachelor level) vs a 5 year eng degree?

Privacy. Controlling your own data.

Honest question: For let’s say a senior developer having to go through all of these steps for the model to implement a feature:

> Product Design > System Architecture > Program Design > Vertical Slices

By the time it takes to go through these steps and agree with the agent, wouldn’t the senior dev not just be able to implement the feature by themselves?

I mean, in general; I know there’s always features with complex logic etc, so the question is just about the “general case”

> month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks propped half-open, as fully closing the lid forces sleep that stops their AI agents

Why don’t they just ask the agents to code up something to prevent the Mac sleeping.. and that will auto enable/disable depending on if they have the agent running or not

I mean, agents makes human devs redundant, right? This seems like a trivial little problem for an agent to fix

> They would NEVER admit any failure in their society, no matter the hard evidence in front of their eyes.

That must be the swedes. Danes complain constantly, about everything.

Edit: if you need examples.. DSB trains are slow/never on time/bad service/..; Post Nord takes WEEKS to get a letter out/too expensive. Well we switched to another provider now, Dao, so we’ll complain they are even worse! And complain why they are not doing it like in the good old days (see Post Nord); taxes are too high; public service is too bad/slow/low quality; too many cars in the city; never any parking space when I take MY car; the paid first child sick day is not enough we need at least a week (just for child sick days mind you, we need the 5 weeks paid vaca for relaxing on a Beach in Spain); btw our weather sucks; unacceptable that garbage collection service is not functioning during show storms; .. i can keep going all day

I think he meant that at that time all users were programmers. Yes, _all_ .

I agree that yes most just want PnP and basically don’t care about security. But it seemed on the posts above that there was an engineering complexity, and a robot vaccum needs local WiFi, so there will be a setup flow. Whats preventing a password selection just be part of that?

I have not knowledge of this kind of software dev/hw production, so can you please explain why the units cant just be born with a default pass and then have the setup process (which is always there) Force the owner to set a new password?

Knowledge or not, this..

> It's not impossible, it's just extra work that usually goes unrewarded.

.. is just not an acceptable way for business to think and operate i 2026, especially not when it comes to internet connected video enabled devices

Yeah was thinking the same thing. I wonder if the author didnt known that passpory chip == fingerprint.

And FP is a much worse modality to have registered because, as opposed to Face image, fingerprint is not affected by age. So that will match you 99.999999% for ever. Faces change.

That that is exactly why [more] regulation is necessary!

Regulation is not done with the purpose of preventing companies from profits. It is done because companies cannot be expected to act in society’s best interest, so society has to make demands of companies, ie regulation.

No, they are not. Doesn’t matter how many LoC; it only take 1 LoC to introduce a vulnerability.

Wireguard is a protocol. So what implementation is “very intentional about its choice of …”? Are you talking about my own WG client implementation? Or the one made by this other Chinese vendor?

I don’t care what software we are talking about, or who made it. All software has a risk of undiscovered/-disclosed vulnerabilities already existing, or when new ones introduced with an update.

If you really want to make this argument we can talk about the implementing organisations SDLC, including SW supply chain, and compare those.

But back to the OP/point above: its false to state that one piece of software has a “principle risk” of vulnerabilities that another piece does not. At least, not when both are internet exposed and accepting incoming data.

Lasty remember that I never disagreed with you point that a VPN solution is often a better solution, but that was never what I was arguing about. Simply that all code always has a risk of vulnerabilities. No piece of software is excempt from that.

You are still implying that wireguard are somehow different from ssh in its suceptibilty to vulnerabilities existing or being introduced into its codebase. And it simply is not.

Edit: codebase of ssh/wireguard implementations, just to be clear

I’m calling it consultant speak because your response to an argument is to bring up something else, instead of actually responding.

The same with this last reply; you can keep throwing out new points all you want, but thats not going to make you correct in the original question.

Saying or implying that one software has a “principle” risk of vulnerabilities that another software doesn’t is plain and simply wrong.

And that has nothing to do with all the other stuff about layered defence, vpns, enterprise security, chatty protocols or whatever you want to pile on the discusion.

Sure, no one said it wasnt layered.

But saying ssh is a risk “on principle” due to possible vulnerabilities, and then implying that if wireguard is used then that risk isnt there is wrong. Wireguard, and any other software, has the same vuln risk “on principle”.

> For vulnerabilities, complexity usually equals surface area. WireGuard was created with simplicity in mind.

That is such consultant distraction-speak. Simple software can have plenty vulns, and complex software can be well tested. Wireguard being “created with simplicity in mind” doesn’t not make it a better alternative to ssh, since it doesn’t mean ssh wasnt created with simplicity in mind.

I don’t disagree that adding a vpn layer is an extra layer of security which can be good. But that does not make ssh bad and vpn good. Further, they serve two different purposes so its comparing Apples to oranges in the first place.