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Batteries don’t replace a generator.

Back to Debian. It caught up where it matters.

Don’t get me wrong; the correct solution would be to prevent our economy from becoming so lop-sided to begin with. Or now to effective amputate the infected limb before the blood turns septic. Both require more spine and guts than anyone has got.

Common sense but surprising how many humans do not receive such things.

Our governing systems do not teach; they punish. By design, it instills terror into the population, ruling by fear of consequences. We live with red tape that can outright penalize good deeds.

We are its corpus. We are fatally flawed as a species. Why does anyone expect AI to learn to be different than us?

We literally cannot touch them, as that would be the first domino to topple in our economy. There is too much money concentrated in this sector, and adverse regulation would create an investor shockwave that would send us into a full blown depression.

Which ironically is also the outcome of letting these companies continue unchecked. If they produce AGI/ASI, our economy will go through an upheaval that leaves vast tracts of the population unemployed. This is their stated goal.

We are damned if we do something, and damned if we don’t.

We are definitely in a new Cold War.

You are kidding, right? The JavaScript ecosystem is a garbage dump of infinite dependencies. I refuse to install any random projects that use it. This fact alone is more than enough reason to justify this effort, as I am hardly the only developer that feels this way about it.

I worked for an education tech company in the 90s. Seemed to clear to me even then that computers in the classroom were not going to be a positive influence. The way things have gone since then, it is no wonder that kids’ brains have turned into pudding.

Indeed, it is virtually impossible to believe that our present government would do an anything to harm the golden geese of our economy.

Yeah, there’s no chance the confession was effectively coerced.

And yes companies should be able to control how their products are used, particularly in the military. Or do you believe in compelled speech?

How many billionaires does it take to dance on the graves of all humanity? One? Two?

Then your repo probably has bugs?

… as well as in the eyes of many of its own citizens.

I don’t buy it. Your premise suggests new inference would make SoTA models performant on hardware that we already have in our hands. To prevent us from running local models, we would literally be forced to turn over existing hardware with such capabilities, prevented from building such machines without a suitable license, and so on. That sounds a lot like attempts at gun confiscation, and the result being that only criminals have weapons. This is not the way.

Yup. Some people read dystopian fiction as an instruction manual.

And let’s be clear: when wielded by the unwashed masses, AI produces the same quality of systems as those low-code tools did. It still takes a human engineer to drive AI to produce a maintainable, cohesive, and reliable system. This may change at some point, but I don’t think we are there yet - even with the latest frontier models.

Probably has something to do with everyone reverse engineering firmware blobs on a whim….

That’s a you problem, not the AI. Stand up to your manager and explain to them how the situation is their fault. Or take responsibility for your complicity from not quitting. But don’t blame the AI for process failures that it did not impose on you.

Just like all the current cohort of software engineers will review all of the vibe-coded slop they shovel into their releases. Right……

I could not agree more. The rise of sandboxing reflects a decrease in trust. Not just in AI. You just don’t download stuff from the internet anymore. It does not matter who created it, or whether it is open source. There is too great a possibility that the package has been blessed with either incompetence or malice by its creators or contributors.

I hope nobody thinks that software produced by these obviously immoral sociopathic corporations should be exempt from such suspicion, when history shows time and time again with news stories like this that they do not deserve such trust.

That’s all we have left. Speeches, voting, and juries will not save us from a system this corrupt. The ongoing civil war will turn bloody eventually.

And that’s how you prevent bake sales, lemonade stands, and more. You create a barrier to entry that gets raised little by little until only the biggest players can afford the game. Software liability would end all small open source projects.

A network connected device that can be hacked is a small step away from being the first foothold into its server. The fact that on-device security is this atrocious suggests that their server is not any better quality, which means hacking it would probably not take much effort.

Given the sibling reply, I can imagine them claiming national security prevents them from releasing those records. But that’s okay; I am fairly certain we can find enough developers willing to tell their tales.

Settlements are not justice.

Gotta love that Google enforces rules on developers that it won’t even enforce on itself. Such a great look.

I hope someone will sue the ever-loving shit out of Apple when their foot dragging prevents a critical update from going out in time to prevent a 0-day from being widely exploited.

Do you hate open source and want only projects where their authors can afford liability insurance and are willing to put themselves in the firing line of a legal system that can be both arbitrary and capricious? Because that’s what you seem to want.

The problem is that money buys lawyers, and you need those to get justice. If the other side spends more, you are likely to lose.

If you assume that programmers’ skills follows a bell curve, the typical output will not be better than the average. And that leads directly into your third conclusion: average programmers just do not put in the effort. That’s literally part of what makes them average.