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To be fair the cyclical nature of funding and defunding security teams which causes scaling up and scaling down, has always left a race to the bottom in security.

Any CISO or head of security loves the ideal of completely using AI to handle incidents, tune detections, implement mitigations, track vulnerabilities, pen testing, etc. This feels like it driving security teams to have less critical thinking.

Seldom? There are a lot of solutions used everyday that are great and better than the alternative of building it yourself

It’s apples to oranges at the end of the day, the question is why can one be automated and not the other.

The whole point of the post is not to straw man CEOs it’s to point out that if devs can be automated then so can CEOs. Treating a founder and CEO as the same thing can be easily a false equivalency depending on the company.

Happens often from what I remember reading and most grocery stores account for the loss. Definitely lots of accidents as well.

I think it’s important to highlight they were correct in identifying problems but the solutions were flawed. The book “Wither Socialism?” Explains it well.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/whithersocialism0000stig_i9j5/pa...

If by command you mean by using coercion or compulsion. Then history has told multiple stories that show to sustain power you need more than just to command. Whether it be centuries ago like in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the Russian Revolution of 1917, or the more recent complex stories of power like Euromaiden in 2013. In my opinion history and modern time supports the theory of hegemony very well.

Ironically one the top modern examples of the powerful understanding the need to convince and executing on those goals is the global dominance of Silicon Valley tech platforms and the billionaires that lead them.

They shape what is "common sense," and political discourse worldwide without direct command.

To be fair prompts is just English language intent abstracted for code. It is still am very much a thing. Why do you feel that harness customization is fleeting, enterprises care about them a lot for many reasons from compliance to security.

Please explain why Flock is needed.

Which ones? Mastercard banned cannabis related changes before [1]

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/how-to-bu...

Definitely a plausible possibility

How are you handling content moderation?

Well that was more disturbing than I thought it would be.

I cried when Mercedes go rid of the click wheel. Research in this article be damned, I’d argue that rotary knobs with directional shifting like Mercedes paired with great software are the best car infotainment interface in recent history for screens in cars.

> Once this tool becomes adopted enough societally, the learning of foreign languages is going to become a very niche hobby.

That could a long time or it could be a very different implementation than the one you describe. Half of the world knowing 2 or more languages and that has been growing over time. I don’t see the evidence that technology will soon close the gap of speaking and understanding another language when in comes to communicating with family, music, business, participating in community events, volunteering, or even intimacy.

> make them much better at using agentic swarms.

Do you mostly use agentic swarms? If so, I’d be curious of your use cases. People talk about “managing agentic swarms” a decent bit, especially on LinkedIn. I just don’t see how they are the best solution for majority of development use cases. At best they seem like using only a hammer to make sculpture.. or a sandwich.

I don’t think this is a great argument for such a small amount of LoC. 1000 lines depending on the service it provides could be very small.

> you don’t know of all the failed projects that couldn’t get off the ground because of incompetent development team and practices that lead a product to its demise

Trying to ignore the nuance is hard in your position or the following one I’ll give is difficult.. but is the opposite potentially true as well? We don’t know how many projects failed because of over optimizing, too much time spent on design and engineering decisions. It’s of getting out and MVP to market. I only say this because I have been apart of a few of these.

Not in academia, but aware of the process, I was wondering just the same.

Thankfully that has been improving [1] and non-kernel is 100% possible today [2] with valve has so much on documentation and support for game and anti cheat developers to accomplish this.

[1]: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/ [2]: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/proton

> Signal still collects your name, photo, phone number, and worst of all, your contacts

Having been involved in a subpoena to Signal, this is not true prior to 2025. Signal does not store any of this on their servers, except for your phone number. I’ve never seen an incident in my career being able to pull a contact from signal.

I also live in London and never specified underground or trains only for any of these cities. Buses also cheap and air conditioned.

Also 2-4 months at best out of the year is not a great argument for public transportation not being the better option compared to cars and parking that don’t scale.

Side note, Elizabeth, District, Circle, Hammersmith & city, and Metropolitan lines where many people work are air conditioned. So are the trains to paddington and St. Pancras from any “village” outside of the London zones. This summer especially it’s been good for me.

Lived in DC and this is very true, lived in London and would be thinking about it all day if I ignored a cashier. London it is polite to say please, thank you, good afternoon, and all other verbal mannerisms.

How about in European big cities where that is not the case? Prague, London, Prague, Budapest, Zurich, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna…? So many people, especially not particularly poor people, use them to commute every single week. Notoriously, for some of these cities, it is slower to travel by car for your commute.

> headphones are a well-understood signal that someone would rather not engage in conversation at the moment

I live in a big city in the US and for myself and probably most my friend group, this rarely true. Maybe it’s because we are a bit extroverted or do work that is social. For me it’s more that I like music or a book, and just want a distraction from my commute. You can start a convo just don’t be rude and realize I might be getting off my stop soon.

I don’t think it is unpopular as much as it might need clarification of culture and location. There are some countries where genders tend to talk their similar presenting gender in public setting like transportation.

I’ve done a short deep dive on this, for some cases that possibly would have went court. The tools we have today don’t reliable indicate if an image was doctored necessarily. Most open available scoring and tools like VAAS, DIRE, and Sherloq are decent today. Figuring out if an image that has been doctored, especially with solid proof, is only reliable if the image has metadata to prove it. If they export it to another format or screen capture it and the metadata is lost, it is purely still a guessing game.

Always be a doubled edged sword, why would a startup with an optional product like a fitness tracking app ever rise to level of regulation that requires developers that are beholden to associations to uphold some level of accountability on developers.

A lot of products don’t come close to rising to the level of a government website, industrial control systems, financial transactions, etc. in terms of needing structure accountability.

Not at the entry price point of a hackathon, which is the point. Using AI in software hackathons are magnitudes cheaper than AI doing manual labor in hardware hackathons.

People really should stop conflating the technical requirements for an optional back service, with they are always collecting our data and anything is a lie.