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BarryMilo··on Show HN: Distributing AI agent skills via NPM
Of all the packaging systems to do this with, npm is certainly one of them.
BarryMilo··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
I recently witnessed one such potential fuckup. The AI had written functioning code, except one of the business rules was misinterpreted. It would have broken in a few months time and caused a massive outage. I imagine many such time bombs are being deployed in many companies as we speak.
BarryMilo··on Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
So UBI + universal healthcare? Sign me up!
BarryMilo··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
As it was foretold since the beginning, IA use is breaking security wantonly.
BarryMilo··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
You might say the problem CloudFlare is causing is lesser than the ones it's solving, but you can't say they're not causing a new, separate problem.

That they're trying counts for brownie points, it's not an excuse to be satisfied with something that still bothers a lot of people. Do better, CloudFlare.

BarryMilo··on I can't recommend Grafana anymore
This is pretty interesting to me, as I do use Grafana in my current role. But none of their other products, and not their helm chart (we're on the Bitnami chart if that's a thing).

So far it's pretty good. We're at least one major version behind, but hey everything still works.

I cannot imagine other products support as many data sources (though I'm starting to think they all suck, I just dump what I can in InfluxDB).

BarryMilo··on Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus
The room is not doing anything of the sort.
BarryMilo··on Nine things I learned in ninety years
Do you believe the same thing about psychiatrists? How are we to deal with mental illness?
BarryMilo··on Nine things I learned in ninety years
Psychologists are a myth?
BarryMilo··on Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration
Isn't the whole problem that it's nigh-impossible to isolate context from input?
BarryMilo··on Vibe coded a website to share vibe coding tips
The "vibe coding" in the title is almost invisible for me on mobile (Firefox). I immediately thought "yeah, that tracks". I'm not saying this is fair but I think the first order of business for any such initiative should be to differentiate "vibe coding" and "bad coding", as they are pretty inextricably linked in my mind (and I dare say most devs' minds).
BarryMilo··on Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz
+17 human+friendly, I guess I don't care what computers think lol.
BarryMilo··on The Demon that Wears my Face
That was well-written, though the analogy is immediately obvious but that's on purpose. Is it then a parody of allegory? Pretty entertaining all the same.

I've thought about this problem, though I'm currently employed I'm sending resumes (sparingly). I wonder if the cover letters I send get mistaken for AI; though I doubt it I have no way to know. More likely, they don't get through the deluge of fakes. Even my CV might not, it's impressive in my mind but an AI might write numbers bigger than mine. At least my LinkedIn is old.

This all sucks, I can't wait for regulations (but I'm not holding my breath).

BarryMilo··on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
Time to make your apartment a faraday cage!
BarryMilo··on The Who Cares Era
Mostly just sounds like everyone has depression.
BarryMilo··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
My god the amount of projection in your comment. It seems you've mistaken me for everyone who ever commented in favor of migrating off of Excel.

I"m aware that there are things I'm unaware of. Perhaps I don't know how to use Excel, I'm "no true Excel user" if you will, and therefore my opinion is invalid. Like you I'm baffled not by the technical side of things but by our reaction to it. People say "it powers 10% of the world's economy" but not "and it's a problem".

It's a problem. My point is not that LO is better, it's that we should work to remove our dependency on closed-source software for universal office work. Governments should be doing that. But no, let's just say "the other one sucks" and continue to act like depending on a single for-profit company for all our economies is a good thing.

Not sure how my other comment relates to this. Is it arrogant to have preferences?

BarryMilo··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
It's crazy to me how because 1% of Excel users need pivot tables or something we're all stuck on it. LibreOffice is enough for the vast majority of use cases.
BarryMilo··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
As much as I'm a diehard Linux defender, Gnome can get bent. XFCE does everything I want, which is to say, almost nothing.
BarryMilo··on I use zip bombs to protect my server
We use to just call those honeypot fields. Works like a charm.
BarryMilo··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
Canadian here: I don't know how anyone can be surprised.
BarryMilo··on Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Expectations
Why would we need jobs at that point?
BarryMilo··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
And internal threats, well, you just have to deal with those, no matter the cost!
BarryMilo··on Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)
What do you mean by "next"? Evolution doesn't have a plan. It'd be more adapted for some things and less for others.
BarryMilo··on Nontraditional Red Teams
Reminds me of that AI company that didn't want it's applicants too use AI in the process. Like... you made this monster.
BarryMilo··on Understanding Reasoning LLMs
Is that bad? The Culture is pretty cool I think. I doubt the real thing would be so similar to us but who knows.
BarryMilo··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Do you not see the contradiction in what you're saying? "LLMs will replace us all... I can't find a use for LLMs".

Get to replacing us already. It's a gold rush, someone needs to get rich selling shovels.

BarryMilo··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Yeah kinda seems like this guy would be better off pivoting to landscaping or baking or something. Maybe construction, there's always work in construction. Pays well too!
BarryMilo··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
If "resembling" intelligence was enough, all programmers would've been replaced long ago.

I've said this on here before, but replacing programmers means replacing our entire economy. Programming is, by and large, information processing. Guess how many business's services can be summed up as "information processing"? I'd wager most of them.

So maybe you're fucked, yes, but if so, we all are. Maybe we'll just have to find something to do other than exchange labor for sustenance...

BarryMilo··on Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)
You might be right, I should give it another go
BarryMilo··on DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
I've been part of a few (Canadian) cooperatives. The incentive structure is completely different, it's akin to admitting you prefer great working conditions than having a chance to chance it rich. If a company is startup-sized, anything else is a sucker's bet.
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