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It's a complicated issue in current LLM world where every day is a zero day, but fuck me sideways, company that claims to be worth trillion of dollars paying 5k for such an exploit is insulting at best.

It's been years since I hanged out with wizards selling such exploits like trading cards, but I bet there are still tons of brokers that will be more than happy to wire you legal money for such finding.

I mean, kudos for the team for doing the right thing. It's great PR and another big one in the portfolio, but, as other have said already, I doubt the next group will even bother contacting OpenAI.

Everyone has praised it already, so I won't be original, but I have to say that I've been looking for something like this for quite a while now. I consume a lot of long form videos on yt, similar to what you can find in your feed, but somehow yt keeps boxing me into very narrow space after a while with same videos over and over again. I've been trying to escape this trap by creating new accounts but eventually I keep finding myself in the same box.

Definitely something worth exploring.

Am I the only one reading the headline as "Cisco committed their source code to public domain"?

Kids these days can fit 64-bits into a 3-bit hole, and if you squint hard enough it still sounds like a robot. Amazing times, I tell you.

Reminds me of a story from Freakonomics.

A teacher would ask his students to note 50 coinflips. And based on distribution he could immediately tell which one of them actually flipped the coin.

If I would be a math/physics teacher in a high school, in a class of 30 students, I would start every class by picking random 2 or 3 students and ask them to explain the solution to me. Or do a carbon copy of one of the assignments in front of the class. Something like that.

In my high school I had a physics teacher. Every class she had a 3 rudimentary questions about the recent subjects. She would call a random name and ask first question. If you fail to answer on the spot you get an F, and another random person will get a shot at the same question. If they fail they got and F as well. Of course by the 6th or 7th person someone would manage to find the right answer. If they got the right answer they'll get the next one. If someone answered all three - they got an A. Most of the times half of the class would get an F.

I've been reading these stories and I'm completely flabbergasted.

Here in EU when there is a public office, there's a right to access the public record. Anyone can file a request, and the office has a given time frame to respond.

Sure, they can do mental gymnastics and stall as much as they want, but there's no money involved. Ever. And if they stall too much you can go to court.

A public office is founded by tax money, by us, and the idea that I would have to pay for publicly available information (public as in not confidential) is beyond me.

I'm one of those people.

I have serious ADHD and I often dive a rabbit hole for an idea for side project. Or research. Or combination of both. Most of my side projects you could categorize as spikes. There's no serious intent on delivering something of value for the world, just going from A to B and learning a thing or two on the run.

I'm like kerosene, I light up instantly, but the fire goes away very quickly. I can be researching a thing for 3 nights straight in my spare time to gather hooks and pieces of information... and then I get distracted and my focus goes somewhere else. And I'm left with 10 tabs that were suppose to kick start my idea.

To my own surprise I tend to go back to these ideas, but sometimes it takes me months, and sometimes, I keep these tabs on one of my devices, opened for months at a time. Sometimes I scrape them, adding links with notes to Obsidian.

Of course the amount of hoarded information vastly exceeds my throughput.

I'm staying stainless

I think this conflates a few different points.

1. A friend of mine is an artist. She mostly does pottery. One could argue that if you need a cup you can get one at IKEA for $2. But there's a certain group that's willing to pay $200 or $2000 for a cup if that's a convenient conversation starter. They don't pay for the cup per se - they pay for the story she's providing with the cup. And we love good storytellers.

Unfortunately that's not the case when it comes to software development.

2. You can have unlimited resources but you still have limited time, so you have to know what you want. That's the human touch LLMs won't be able to automate. You have to be able to find a niche, work out the product and reach out to clients with clear message.

3. If your product is "Tinder but for horses" it doesn't matter if it was written by LLM or vegans. As long as it works.

4. If you want to gradually develop your product vibe coding will get in your way very fast. It's great for prototyping and developing well defined products but in a long run you'll want to know how your system works.

I did the same couple years ago using Google. Should CNN run a story about me?

Its not just QA and bug hunting.

You want to hire your target audience, which may be vastly different from yourself, and suddenly you discover that the language is throwing them off, the color scheme brings different meanings, and they just don't understand the flow which felt completely natural for you.

I see Jev as a major step towards commoditizing current LLM paradigm. One thing would be to further optimize this particular route to work purely on CPU. This will grant an option to embed this feature into any application, from MS Office to games. The other is integrating this into agent workflow to vastly minimize token consumption.

in an ideal world real programmers wouldn't be building their whole identities around publishing libraries like "isEven" or claiming fame for vibe porting perfectly fine libraries into whatever is the newest and hottest platform...

... but that ship has already sailed

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