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I know a language translator (Japanese/English) who is doing very well out of AI screwing up and causing damage.

The trick is not to start in software and have something to fall back in to.

In my case that’s mathematics in academia so I’m going to be starving to death.

Had one like that. I quit and they blamed me for a project failure after the fact. That pissed off a couple of colleagues who thought it might happen to them. They also quit leaving them entirely without a software team. Set them back ten years because they didn’t make the market in time.

Write everything down and make sure everyone knows you’re writing it down. Saves a lot of hassle like that.

Wiping tears away with my kleenex right now.

Been correcting my kids on this for the last 10 years. It works.

This was triggered by my mother Googling something on Bing.

I bet someone already did that and didn't disclose it.

Wait until someone does that to your favourite cloud provider's customer data.

Nope.

Crystal failures are always a problem. We used to chuck a bag of them in a tumbler for an hour then on a tray on a vibration table for an hour. About 20% would fail on test from being entirely open circuit to being way off frequency.

That was a second hand EV.

The orange man is the figurehead for a problem. There are other orange men.

I very much doubt it'll happen. Not with the current US leadership. And the technology oligarchy will do anything to keep the current leadership in power because if they don't, they are quite possibly fucked.

I didn't write the compiler but I did make the pizza.

This is definitely not being obtuse. It's keeping discussions around what we actually achieve as humans in the bounds of reality, not within the bounds of marketing and ego.

You still didn't make it.

EV ownership is mostly about lying to yourself and saving face.

From direct experience.

Also worth noting that the fuel on a second hand petrol car cost less than the depreciation on the EV for me.

You walk into a food factory and you ask for a pizza. It comes out and you tell them that you wanted mushrooms, so they make another one. It arrives and you complain that it's square and not round, so they make another one. That one has no tomato sauce so you send it back again. Eventually you get the pizza you want.

I make my own pizza because I like doing it. And if I can't be bothered to make one, I'll just pick a ready made one off a menu from a pizza restaurant.

What's the point if you didn't do it yourself?

Feels like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gId2HsHvSgs

I'm tired of this.

Only issue I've seen is search doesn't work in Settings.

Edit: 27.0.1 fixed that.

Why the hell anyone bought into the Chromebook idea I don’t know. Possibly saw the price and thought they’d get away with it.

One meeeelion dollars then.

Some of us are here to help. $1000/hr.

The old workstations were always pretty damn reliable. I’ve got a Sun Ultra 30 in storage. I may grab it and boot it up and see if it still works. Suspect the NVRAM and power supply caps are duff though.

This is how you end up being regulated out of existence. Maybe not in the US but in Europe, which is a market they need, it'll be painful.

No the problem is allowing changing of system architecture or intent because the AI just did it and being totally trained to mentally surrender to the whims of it.

I'd rather everyone burned for it than heeded a warning.

They are morally bankrupt and will try and do it again and again if it's stopped too early.

Had that problem here. Our product lead thinks it’s infallible and is surrounded by yes men.

Day one our agentic platform goes live it causes a reportable compliance issue. Massive clean up. Reputational impact. Turned off.

No one held accountable still. Assuming that adding more guardrails will fix everything.

No it's more the "what the hell are people doing to make their lives difficult?" argument.

No it’s just as crap as it always was. There just wasn’t much point in moving the code to anything else as it only gets updated once every 5-6 years.

It’s a utility that converts a horribly obsolete binary format from a thoroughly obsolete bit of hardware into text so it can be processed. Working since 1989.

I hadn't noticed.