surajrmal

It worked for Microsoft with cloud. Existing industry penetration goes a long way.

I think this is because of capacity issues. Higher paying per token users probably get preferential capacity allocations to those on monthly plans. The allowance for what you get in the monthly plan increases as the models age and the likely capacity problems improve.

Attacking individuals rather than discussing the problem concretely is generally not beneficial to useful discussions. I don't get why there is such a us vs them mentality going on. I feel like you're exemplifying the idea of not thinking critically.

You're not talking about the same thing I am. You're suggesting there are negative externalities from using AI. I generally agree with that take. But I am suggesting AI is generally useful. I am not discussing if it's a net positive for society, but it's very likely a net positive for individuals, especially those who produce code.

They are not the most popular.

Look, I'm not an AI supporter, but you can't put your head in the sand about things it does well. Even if you don't use it to produce production code, using it for research, prototyping, etc is still incredibly useful.

These layoffs are to give folks who want to leave the chance to leave. Many people are unhappy after layoffs because they would have happily given been laid off if it meant saving one of their colleagues. I honestly think it's not in Microsoft's interest to offer it given the fact they'll on average lose higher quality employees. We should really be celebrating it to encourage them to keep up the practice and others to adopt it.

Most employees don't actually take the option when presented with it. Google has offered these in the past and while I don't know the actual rate of acceptance, it was very very low based on what I saw.

People are using it to do contract negotiation without a lawyer, argue with their doctors over health matters, complain to teachers about their methods, etc. On the flip side, lawyers are using it in supplement to paralegals, doctors transcribing patient notes with it, and teachers are using it to generate worksheets. It's being used fairly widely already

Are you avoiding Google and SpaceX in that math?

The same way many companies do I would assume, lots of automated config changes.

Which will just put pressure to improve the testing situation, not necessarily change stance on AI written patches. In fact AI is quite good at catching issues and root causing them back to recent changes so they could automate that journey a bit better as well to fill in any gaps not caught at review time.

It's interesting how different theories come about when there is a lack of information and a high degree of preexisting bias. Reality is a lot simpler - it wasn't deemed worth the cost of addressing the security problems in the existing library so someone chose to abandon the format. However as industry adoption increased and a newer safe library appeared, the decision was changed. Also, note that while Google developed the new rust library, it wasn't the chrome team who made the investment.

I feel like there is an assumption here that solving the problems described will result in a worse outcome for the average rust user, but I'm not sure that's the case. Perhaps the existing way of compilation makes sense for release mode, but a different tact could be taken for compilation modes which are optimized for developer productivity.

I agree with the sentiment that you can't solve for everyone, but if a problem is prevelant in your userbase, it's worth optimizing for solving it. Not every tool will be used the way it was designed to be used.

MTE requires several things to work well. Notably there is some missing hardware believed to be necessary for MTE to be performant on the pixel 11.

In terms of mitigation of UAF, a great deal of new code written for Android userspace these days is in memory safe languages such as rust. Also, a lot of testing with instrumented code sanitizers is still done before release. We don't know how much risk MTE actually mitigates.