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> I don’t believe for a second that they lack the engineering talent. Let's agree to disagree. Remember flicker-gate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908

> But the event itself only seems possible because they failed to properly monitor and isolate the environment in the first place. OpenAI is clearly run by dummies and subpar engin…

> Isn't this a show of security negligence rather than of exceptional agent capabilities? Seems to me you could say this about all enterprise adoption of "AI" since 2023.

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> did anyone else have the feeling that, for all their messaging around “we are so afraid that our models will be used for hacking”, they sure as hell are trying their best to make…

At my job in 2023, after the staff engineers quit, new-hire engineers backed by new-hire managers pushed through a series of 5,000-10,000 line GPT 3.5 PRs affecting ludicrously con…

> On what planet do people start paying for things without keeping an eye on the costs and no-one notices until you have spent a crazy amount? I don't understand. You are either pa…

> The industry has always been stupid and selfish and short-sighted but now the ICs at the bottom of the pyramid are themselves being commoditized like all the workers they "disrup…

The "us" vs "them" thought pattern is the essence of "Western" (read: white, European, colonialist) culture, dating back to Plato's Republic. Marimba Ani's seminal work Yurugu is a…

> There are still many places where engineers or knowledge workers are respected and left to lead (or not) AI adoption. Please start naming names

This site aggressively suppresses any criticism of LLMs, especially LLM generated/"assisted" code.

2022/2023 is when the AI wrecking crews came in in full force

> when i brought this up with my manager they just said "WORK HARDER, SLAVE"

> most importantly developers saying "we no longer know how this code works but it's massively bloated and unreadable and we can't tell you with a straight face that we can maintai…

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I don't believe that you're asking in good faith based on the rest of your comment.

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> It's true they don't HATE people Maybe so, but perhaps the most successful part of the AI marketing pitch has been exploiting management's hatred of labor (and vice versa). A sig…