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nekoashide··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
I explained in another thread, but yeah, it acts on my behalf using my access to take actions with my approval. It has knowledge of all my work and leverages various data sources, (Jira, Confluence various mcp's) to gather information and take actions. If I ever have to correct it, or if the actions it takes are going down the wrong path I make sure and understand why and correct that.

It just got really good over time, especially as new processes get brought it and things change. I can't keep up with that like that AI can, just have it review and go down the path of ensuring that it fit's in my workflow as efficiently as possible and move on.

As far as the developer? I gave him ideas but he's on another team and I got my own guys to feed.

nekoashide··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
If only it was that easy, we are gated behind controls and processes that consume a significant amount of time between finding the bug, and a production push. AI quite literally automates the stuff I don't want to do, like create a fill out a jira ticket in the exact way that team wants it.

I don't have time for that, and neither do the teams that consume these request. As time has gone on me and the other teams I work with are no longer touching code, the AI will follow processes and procedures that pre date AI just fine with some human reviewing and approving.

AI has turned what was weeks at minimum to get a bug fix out, to just doing it all with with some human gating. It's not been a smooth process but watching it play out in real time it's getting faster, more efficient, and less prone to problems.

And that the crux off the situation, patching and securing configurations need to be done much faster than today, project glasswing has shown us that AI can scale to identify and solve those problems faster than a human.

nekoashide··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
To be clear, that one shot prompt was supported by nearly a years worth of work around developing an enviroment that allows me that level of effortless automation.

The issues was really simple, I knew the application, I knew what the bug was and already had a workaround in my head. I simply stopped at going down that rabbit hole and told claude to deal.

It identified the issue quickly, found the workaround and made the developer aware. All those things I would have done I just watched it do for me, plus, the app is vibe coded anyways, I just need it fixed and regardless of the AI path it was faster shooting out the bug report. Which, was simply poor processing of a spreadsheet.

nekoashide··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
In my experience at a large bank with unlimited AI, my spend is in the top 5% and I'm leveraging AI just like you.

I was in a meeting with someone who had a bug in an application that I don't own myself on Friday so I told claude,

"I need you to find this bug the user is experiencing, find out if it's user error or a bug, let the user know and tell the developer what needs to be fixed if needed"

15 minutes later the developer ask me if I want it fixed today or Tuesday.

That user could have done the same thing as me, had access to all the same systems and tools as I have, and also received the same AI training I had. The difference is that some users are just not, for lack of better words, AI native.

nekoashide··on Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge
Ghostbusters on the NES was fear inducing as an 80's kid, then came Resident Evil on the PSX.
nekoashide··on Amazon Nova
Oh I'm sure, the ACM UI was impossible to use for years to find certificates, they improved it, but, it will never have the same level of functionality that the API gives you and that's the bread and butter.
nekoashide··on U.S. Commercial Real Estate Is Headed Toward a Crisis
Every morning and evening I watch the sun shine through empty office buildings that were just recently completed. I'm not sure how economical it is to keep the lights on.
nekoashide··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
Time served, look at how he's been treated, the dude isn't worth any more effort to prosecute. Doing so would look incredibly bad at this point.
nekoashide··on Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
This has been causing a number of issues with proxys, we use nginx and we have started to see problems with chrome users and handshakes not working properly.
nekoashide··on OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
I think it's key here that if someone else trained the voice and sounded like Scarlett Johansson, and there a payment to that person, and that person exist, it feels like to me they won't have a strong case.

Now if it was trained on the voices from various IP? Or "Computer generated", I think we have an argument that it was trained on her voice.

nekoashide··on The fishy death of Red Lobster
You see the same with Dentist, the cost to start a practice after paying for college? Or get a job at a big PE owned Dentist Office and work for commission.
nekoashide··on Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
Large scale solar farms use larger panels and less protective glass. In one of the articles I read someone nearby had a roof ripped off and also got large hail.
nekoashide··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
My wife, me on the other hand? I don't use it
nekoashide··on Apache Superset
Any time I hear "Apache Foundation" my stomach turns as I hesitate to ask my next question. "What we are trying to use from them is built on Java right"
nekoashide··on Solar and battery to make up 81% of new US electric-generating capacity in 2024
The cool thing about batteries is that they are great as an investment. You can charge them when power is cheap and sell back power when you have high demand and market prices for power.

Typically Peaker Plants fill this role but at much higher cost for electricity and emissions. Batteries just make much more sense for this kind of power.

nekoashide··on Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
We have companies like Google and Microsoft who have the ability to build or create power generation for things like this. I just think it's interesting that Microsoft could be energy self sufficient by building generation next to a datacenter.
nekoashide··on MrBeast reveals he made $250k from X video
Your not the only one, my son says he get's all his info from yt, Mr Beast never got a click from me.
nekoashide··on Joining a Gym? Here's Why You Should Open a New Bank Account
I have a bank account through cashapp for this very reason, easy to get an account and easy to burn it.
nekoashide··on Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite
I stop at "lead apatite" and immediately lose intrest when reading these articles.
nekoashide··on The Year of Ozempic
Years ago before it was popular my doctor gave me an rx for it and I tried it, I knew it was a game changer, but those side effects? Might have just been me but I could not tolerate the nausea.

In the end I didn't need Ozempic, I just started working out several times a week and holding myself accountable to my eating habits. I think for the majority of people diet and exercise is enough. But for those who need more help, even Oprah, it's a miracle drug.

nekoashide··on The new headache for bosses: Employees aren't quitting
I'm seeing old co-workers on linkedin that got caught up in this, they switched during the pandemic, some to positions and salaries I assume were inflated from knowing them previously. Once the layoffs hit they started looking for jobs with the same title/salary and there's was nothing.

I'm one of those who didn't switch, I thought I was making a mistake, now? New hires are coming in and being offered a little more than pre-pandemic pay. Below what I'm making now for the same position.

nekoashide··on Nokia to cut up to 14,000 jobs as US demand shrinks, growth uncertain
I remember reading that the move to 5G would make cellular equipment more like software with upgrades and needing less hardware replacements to support newer tech.
nekoashide··on Why BMI is flawed – and how to redefine obesity
I have an app with my scale and I weigh every morning, the numbers never make sense but the trends do. Like over a whole month I see not only weight loss but other metrics that may be deviating.
nekoashide··on Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
Some of those games were unplayable without the manuals or a map! Looking at you Star Control II! You needed a map for the coordinates to play that one.
nekoashide··on Pure Remote Jobs from “HN: Who Is Hiring”
I list remote only on my LinkedIn profile, it's what my current company offers. Recruiters and HR people only reach out to me to inquire about if I would accept Hybrid roles. I get 2/3 a week with the same spiel.

My last HR interview went south when after they pitched a lower salary, hybrid work and finally ended with "Are you sure you like your job now?" I told them I wasn't interested and that ended that.

The one remote job interview I did in the last year wasn't a good fit. I declined the offer.

nekoashide··on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
The pump itself is the least secure piece of technology in existence. They keys to open them are common, the communication is all serial based and hasn't changed at all in 40+ years.

It wasn't more than a decade ago that I was swapping 3des pinpads out. If you had really old pump all you needed was a small screw driver to stop the meters from turning after you popped the front panel off.

nekoashide··on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
Bluetooth controlled? The device sure, for all we know it's just kicking over the dispenser. The clerk isn't looking but I'm sure if they look at the pump on the register it's counting.

It's still all serial based comms, but unless the attendant is trained or aware they might just think someone is pumping. It will show up on the daily report when the dispenser report doesn't match the sales report.

nekoashide··on Why has a useless cold medication been allowed on shelves for years?
There's a very good reason it's behind the counter. I'm not talking about the people who need it as cold medicine, it's the people who buy it to make drugs and get high.

Before it was placed behind the counter you couldn't even find it on shelves due to the amount of theft.

nekoashide··on Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
This is a skip a generation iPhone for me, USB-C is cool and all but by the time I'm ready to upgrade they should have something much better out there.
nekoashide··on Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT model
NYC-Tokyo over the polar route for a flight crew over an entire year gives you as much as a single full body CT.

A single full body CT of radiation every year for that flight crew.

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