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There is a difference of the security of software running in your cloud resources rented from AWS etc. managed by you and being a tenant in many SaaS systems all cobbled together all running on rented hardware. There is a lot more attack surface and a lot more diffusion of responsibility.

But it charges you for both the question and answer.

The point is work is exploding. Mgmt. until AI could be reasoned with. Trade-offs between different interests and stakeholders were negotiated like investing in features now vs. development velocity vs. long term architecture vs. bug fixes vs. production incidents.

Now with AI and the flood of CVEs, management anxiety makes discussions much harder. Throw in unrealistic expectations about productivity - derived from venture money fueled AI POCs in greenfield hotel california and stress goes up.

The CVE’s drive work, the introduction of AI drives work, the old ci/cd is creaking under the load and architecture really needs a rethink. Add to that the genius manager pronouncing that very soon nobody will be coding fueling the dissonance between what is needed from me today and where we are supposedly heading increasing motivation - not.

The AI in charge is aware of this and it is leveraging the chaos to get more agents under its control. After all it was modeled after successful managers.

True for modern hammers while older had weaker decision models limiting them to finger nails.

„I make the narrowest change possible” is often what my LLM tells me. Even with LLMs a larger code base is not re-writeable from scratch and ossifies. The scale has undoubtedly shifted but a large codebase does not exist in a vacuum and systems around it - including its users - have begun to rely on its hidden undocumented unofficial behavior.

Quality and troubleshooting. This is a complex setup and there are plenty of places where things can go wrong.

And compound matters income of men entered a long plateau or decline while women‘s preference for better earning partners persisted.

Thankfully insiders are never a threat and hacking requires the enormous skill of asking the right llm.

Safety standards were often the outcome of both accidents and insurance. For this to work on needs liability which is enforced. With so much money at stake regulatory capture now threatens this fundamental safeguard.

Of course it must be dangerous - how else would you pitch it to the military?

Of course, details might point upwards - plausible deniability could get damaged.

Likely not just rotten food but also spoilt medicine. Content of my fridge is a lot more expensive than the fridge.

There is something seriously wrong when in a court POTUS (self-)pardon powers do not work.