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Yeah, but none of those builds should have seen the light of day, given all the problems that were found.

And given the bug churn, something is very wrong with the testing harness. Either there was grossly insufficient testing to start with (indicating the humans involved were not taking the job of building a database server seriously enough), or else the LLM agents were mangling the tests to get the tests green while breaking the code (indicating that there was either no human review or the human reviewers didn't know enough about how the test+code ran to be able to catch the LLMs misbehaving).

What I fear is that the humans will implement more and more layers of LLMs to monitor the LLMs, rather than slow down development and learn what their code actually does.

Better comparison is probably the dotcom bubble, and companies like pets.com, webvan, kozmo, etoys, worldcom, global crossing, etc. It was not entirely clear to most investors in 2001 that google and amazon would make it.

TIL that GenX never watched Star Trek or listened to Ozzy...

A good chunk of the economy is in a recession, it continues to look okay on aggregate because of all the AI money pouring into data centers.

Any given individual, though, is going to find themselves a certain amount off center from the aggregate number.

I feel like your reply is extremely inorganic.

And how come criticizing left-wing protests is fine, but bringing up right-wing botting/trolling operations on this website isn't?

"Curious..."

Meta just pushed some Heritage Foundation post on me today.

I aggressively block/hide anything right-wing, and yet somehow "the algorithm" thought I'd be really into that...

No, this is probably just the result of Apple getting hammered over and over on every release for bugs slipping into the releases and updates.

People were just losing their minds on here over bugs in the 27.2 beta release that hasn't even shipped yet, with wild conspiracy theories about what Apple was doing.

So you wind up with a typical megacorp release process where nothing can happen if it isn't signed off in triplicate and two operators crack open the books with the missile codes and turn the keys at the same time to launch the update.

The result is that shipping a single file for a critical security update takes way too long.

Historically, stuff like openssl and cli command tools used flat files like /etc/ssl/certs.pem.

Browsers came along and they wanted to maintain their own cert store because operating system flat files were often out of date.

Operating systems grew their own stores because they wanted some kind of registry that was more integrated with the rest of their ecosystem.

Nobody coordinated. CLI tools and unix libraries don't care about browsers or O/S registries, operating systems have requirements so that they can't use the flat files, everyone screams about stuff like systemd turning unix into windows.

And it will continue to proliferate. System management tools often ship their own certs since the O/S certs can be out of date and untrustworthy and may not be able to talk to AWS before you bootstrap the management tool and update the system certs because people still run ancient shit like RHEL5. This is more or less the same reason browsers ship their own as well. I've made the decision to ship an embedded cert store in a product before, and nothing has fundamentally changed that would cause me to rethink that decision (even though for people who have an up-to-date O/S it is strictly additional cost that they now have to track a cert store in another product--but you have to build for the lowest common denominator).

I'm hopeful that it helps to accelerate drug/bio/cancer/etc research.

I suspect what is happening here, though, is that Anthropic is going to take a bunch of Dunning-Kruger AI researchers who throw prompts at Claude and publish 1,000 papers worth of drug-discovery slop that will only waste the time of actual experts...

"Whoever told you that is your enemy"

Law and order lied to you. Circumstantial evidence can be enough for a conviction, provided that all the evidence adds up to enough to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. And it can certainly provide a reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop.

i've been taking to responding "fuck off" instead of "stop" and then blocking and reporting.

they do at least enough sentiment analysis so that "fuck off" behaves like "stop" and they respond that they're removing you from their list and won't contact you again.

> This over simplifies politics.

No, it doesn't. "Passed by Clinton" and "Passed by Obama" are the statements that oversimplify politics.

> The position in the United States to make sure people vote aligned is called Whip.

That is also a gross oversimplification of our politics.

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> We are still in a desert.

It isn't exactly a desert? It is more like a full buffet, but nothing but cheap, mass-produced sugar literally everywhere. All the 2-star donuts and chocolate cupcakes you can eat, and nothing but that.