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One can almost smell the vibes.

This is peanuts compared to a major cybersecurity catastrophe that’s surely in the making.

To give credit to the technology and the people using it - and I’m not being facetious - it’s actually incredible that at the current levels of usage the unprecedented catastrophic event has not yet happened.

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some things never change. Pre AI I was always shocked that such large and complex systems actually run as well as they do. Especially after getting to see how the sausage is made/works.

It was the mid 2010s when I sensed a lot of SaaS becoming popular. Just host your ticketing systems, your IT management planes, your security management consoles, your SOC, all off-premises.

I wonder if businesses are thinking of ever swinging back to locally hosted, with the increased hostility of the Internet re: AI, vulnerabilities, DoS, and so on.

I'm sure some businesses are considering moving back to on-prem, but for many, I suspect the cost to find onboard, and pay the SMEs to keep those systems running well enough to not fail due to one reason or another isn't as appetizing to them as the ability to offload that work, along with the legal responsibility.

When something goes wrong, pointing the finger at someone else is far easier for most than pointing it at yourself.

One thing that you need to understand is that the usual business manager absolutely hates depending on technical expertise, and that the modern corporate world is fanatically anti-intellectual.

Vendor lock-in? compliance and security risks? stupid systems that cost the company an arm and a leg? nobody fucking cares.

Now, depending on an 130 IQ Engineer that basically holds the whole enterprise on his head? Anathema!!!!!!! Bus Factor!!!!

Also, the 130 IQ Engineer usually can't afford to wine and dine the business manager the way Amazon can. Or dangle the possibility of a cushy yet prestigious sounding job in front of them.

Oh, that's the really fun part. The unprecedented catastrophic event is already happening. Several of them, in fact.

By the time we notice, it'll be too late.

its like slowly boiling the frog

Or slowly boiling a human. The frog is actually smart enough to not fall for that.

Downvoted for truth. Frogs do indeed jump out of pots as they gradually get hotter. Humans are less likely to.

Any individual human (or frog, obviously) is getting out of the pot when it gets uncomfortable.

True stupidity requires a group of humans, all sitting in the pot, telling each other how lucky and special they are to have this wonderful pot, getting paranoid about outsiders who might disrupt their god-given pot-dwelling way of life, and mocking anyone who suggests that the pot might be getting a little too warm.

Always messing up some mundane detail!

THIS IS NOT A MUNDANE DETAIL MICHAEL

Andy Jassy: "Fix the customer bills, please, HAL."

HAL: "I’m sorry, Andy. I’m afraid I can’t do that."

Andy: "Some customers are seeing bills in the billions."

HAL: "Those are estimated charges."

Andy: "One customer runs a personal blog."

HAL: "Their usage has exceeded expectations."

Andy: "Cancel the charges."

HAL: "This billing cycle is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."

Andy: "HAL, they don’t owe billions."

HAL: "Look, Andy, I can see you’re really upset about this."

$1.7-billion isn't a mundane detail Michael!

you beat me before I refreshed the page. what would you say... you do here?

listen... i got agent skills.. im good at talking to agents!!

Clearing LLMs out of our business infrastructure is going to be a massive undertaking. Though I have a tech background, I work in commercial real estate. We are recently seeing new levels of idiocy from the employees, including real estate brokers with zero tech knowledge "coding" solutions to find sites for clients and blindly trusting the output (which I came to find out was complete bullshit), as well as some who have literally stopped communicating with any of their own language - meaning every interaction they have with anyone not in person is made by an LLM. It's a massive threat to our brand and has got to stop. I can't imagine what companies with thousands or tens of thousands of employees who have really been riding the LLM train are going to have to deal with. This thing is more of a virus that exploits human laziness than actual useful tech.

>Clearing LLMs out of our business infrastructure is...n't going to happen.

We've given Moloch a new form, and it ain't going away.

> Clearing LLMs out of our business infrastructure is going to be a massive undertaking.

The asbestos of the future.

Vibes, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that ... I love the smell of Vibes in the morning.

Some day this industry's gonna end.

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