mfjordvald
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
I'll add to this that your job is also to design tooling and feedback loops that allows the AI to improve over time.
You have policy gates: How the AI should act. (and a feedback loop to check the code is adhering to those policy gates)
You have quality gates: How the AI verifies it's done things correctly (testing, linting, PRDs, cyclomatic complexity)
Modern AI engineering is really about improving this system rather than manually reviewing AI output. The better the policy gate and quality gate enforcement, the less manual review is required and the more velocity you achieve.
Sticking with being a human-in-the-loop reviewer of AI code is where people lose all hope in still being software engineers.
That said, ROMs are basically never a malware vector as they have to exploit an issue in the emulators themselves and historically that hasn't really been seen. Typically malware related to roms happens with files included in the zip archives or by sites offering "downloaders" with embedded malware.
It might be a contributing factor in some countries, but there's definitely more going on.
It's always good to be aware of how things affect human hormones and absolutely worth study and regulation, but it's a huge jump from frogs are affected to humans are affected. I know right wing people are world class long jumpers so this kind of "it could be!" really isn't helping towards a reasonable debate.
I don't really need it for getting jobs but I definitely moved on to other topics and just never kept up with the blogging.
There are some projects working on reducing this though, for example zkSync is doing some really interesting work on a layer2 solution that feels like you're staying on the Ethereum mainnet but the fees are highly reduced thanks to the zkRollup algorithm.
I saw my friend mint an NFT for $1.40 the other day just to showcase the work zkSync has been doing, at this cost it'd be super interesting for real world uses beyond just art provenance.
Obviously those can be repacked and faked so you'd have to check multiple sources to ensure you get a genuine release, but yeah the scene groups are as usual way ahead of everyone else.
Search through the change log for "thanks to" http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES and you'll see a lot of contributions. Two people who stand out as frequent contributors are Piotr Sikora and Maxim Dounin (who went on to actually work at Nginx!).
And this does not show the mailing list discussions and bug investigations or the documentation maintained by the community in the early days.
[This post is not intended to mean this sale is bad, just to highlight some of the awesome community contributors]
They did mention contacting users and, as is usual, got only the symptom, not the underlying cause. Talking to users is great to understand why something happens is great, but it has to be translated through deep product insight to be useful.