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Interesting, thanks. I don't know where "around here" is, but the signals I've seen in a lot of articles is that the demand for junior software people has taken a dive since a year…

> I don't think researchers in math/TCS will be made obsolete, but I think it will instead no longer make sense to work on any low-hanging, or even medium-hanging (you know what I …

What a great post! I would love to read more of these for other films. > Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in t…

People creating things that didn't exist before is so refreshing, and Prahou is such an amazing artist. Making it look easy (or for the untrained eye like silly scribbles on old th…

Not going with something already widely deployed (like strlcpy), which could also be used in userland (strscpy can't, it's return value in case of failure is out of scope) is exact…

I read every piece like this one as: Money is moving in the vulnerability space now, when as before the LLM hype incentivized that, your best bet was that someone skilled enough wo…

It's funny that the system config page ( https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-... ) lists pebibytes for RAM configurations... in this day and age where buyin…

That's awesome, I'm happy for you finding such great value in it! Not sure if it's important or not, but for the sake of OP's discussion I note that your value is not necessarily t…

> Which things, specifically? Low level systems programming mostly. Embedded systems, *nix userland programs, API and library design, sometimes including writing assembly although …

> I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, do people realize that code is just a means to an end? You will need a lot more to make yourself my enemy, but this is the div…

I agree, it's very off-putting, and I totally understand that the amount of reports are overwhelming for maintainers of popular libraries. > More reports means more fixes means mor…

I agree about letting AI loose on rsync is baffling, and also that how the issue was filed was incredible obnoxious. A thought crossed my mind though, with the risk of going slight…

> The bottom performers won’t have that self check. They are the ones producing 10x output with the agents. What do you think is happening to the average output of that organizatio…

> Be scared when random AI companies IPO with bad ideas and no revenue. Shouldn't we at least be a little bit scared already when shoe companies pivot to AI and their stock goes up…

That's helpful, thanks! Once past IPO, I suspect the 70% -> R&D must shrink, right? I mean, to keep the stock afloat long term P/E must come down right? Public investors strike me …

The hyperbolic nature of the articles in both AI camps is very exhausting to me. I'd like to get in front of a whiteboard with someone who knows economics and the token providers b…

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https://xkcd.com/1053/ I recommend you go look at some of his talks on Youtube, his best five talks are probably all in my all time top-ten list!

If I understand you correctly, you're asking me if I would class this as a 20k USD (plus environmental and societal impact) bug? nope, I don't. I've not said anything else than tha…

Spending $20000 (and whatever other resources this thing consumes) on a denial of service vulnerability in OpenBSD seems very off balance to me. Given the tone with which the proje…

> On the global stage, state-sponsored attacks from actors like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have threatened to compromise the infrastructure that underpins both civilian l…

> I'm not sure that analysis (and perhaps especially security analysis) is the biggest issue with LLMs. I was replying to the statement that "maybe code quality is really not that …

> maybe code quality is really not that important for trivial things I hear this narrative being pushed quite a bit, and it makes my spidey senses tingle every time. Secure program…