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Software quality was never as big of an issue as it’s made out to be.

Even before AI most software that ran “mission-critical” systems was kind of bad. I mean huge enterprises got routinely hacked bc of some owasp top 10 shit. And this happened many many times across all industries.

It’s not like before AI everyone was writing well-tested and reviewed secure super brain code

Not my experience tbh.

Those that love writing code are still doing it just way more intense than ever (like the person in the article)

Those that use code as a means to an end, solve that issue and then take the rest of the day off

Might just be me though

A “proper” mirror alongside archive.org would be good too

The adverb “quietly” has become such an AI smell to me, even if it’s probably not one in this instance.

I hope I will never be in that situation to make that decision; but seeing the fate of the different whistleblowers (in the USA) it seems you need to be almost suicidal to blow the whistle.

Like your life will basically be ruined for a long time, maybe forever.

I get the sentiment but basically you say that people need to join corrupt fucked up organisations to make them better. Like if you don’t join and improve things, some kind of psychopath will join in your stead and make things worse.

I don’t think that’s a helpful way to think about it.

You’re not required to improve things anywhere and you can leave a toxic (work)relationship if that’s what you need.

The problem is not that power corrupts; it’s more that power attracts corruptible people

Yea Meta is the only possible company you can work at…

>the institutional left is basically neoliberals

I think that’s very USA centric - i feel it’s different in Europe or South America

The perfidy of Putin (and many other authoritarian regimes) is that they can clothe their anti-democratic and anti-human policies in the language of their opponents.

So Putin can justify anything with words - what they say doesnt really matter or reflect reality. The actions and outcomes matter.

It seems similarly unfathomable to other commenters that US big tech is ideologically aligned with the rightwing parties in EU and SA. Further that the current US administration is openly rooting for leaders to get elected that serve its interests and not the electorate’s interests (which makes sense) and that US big tech is entirely controlled and thrall to the US administration. Truly mindboggling

Well let’s make the next fine 250B, they clearly don’t care enough yet

Maybe a lot of people worked at stackoverflow idk; but I have been organising electronic “underground” music nights for 15+ years and basically stopped now because there just wasn’t a big enough audience anymore.

Anyway what I’m trying to say is that I think COVID and its aftermath is a much bigger factor here than AI, especially when it comes to “live / performing” art

Forgive my ignorance but which machines depend almost entirely on quantum principles?

With the current admin the deforestation rates in Brazil are now the lowest they have been for decades. Unfortunately that will be over by next week probably :/

Which is fair i think. The fines for them should be 1000x times higher or 50% of yearly revenue or something and they won’t cheat so much anymore.