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Yeah but you don't test for stuff you don't know you have to test for. All tests can pass and internally its still done in a braindead way that will explode at some point.

Here is something I found this week: copies the entire db to memory, inserts a single row into in-memory db, deletes everything from real db, writes everything back. Sentence that caused this is "do XXX in one transaction".

All tests pass, everything seemed to work. Would not have noticed of I didn't read through the code. Amount of other stupid shit I found is crazy.

The thing I use most is kagi AI assistant. They have a bunch of models like Deepseek 4.1 and I don't think they have any usage limit.

I just had an agent implement writing a DB row like this: copy the entire DB into memory. Change data in memory. Delete the DB. Copy everything back.

Spec was good, all tests green, app worked. If I didn't actually go in and try to understand the code I would have shipped it like this.

So here is my question to people saying it's solved : do you actually know that it is or does it simply appear so because all the tests are green?

CVSS in general is not the best proxy for "real world impact". You could have a 10 on a software thats only deployed once and the impact would be tiny. In this case, multipath is not used that much (except by go).

Always comes back to fundamentals: defense in depth, principle of least privilege, patch your shit. Almost every security issue comes from violating one of those.

I've done that too and given up on it. They got longer and longer, the LLM started adding them itself despite specific instructions to not do that, and in the end it let to context bloat. Better of without them.

A significant part of the corpus is marketing copy.

A lot of those games are attempts at cheap cash grabs more than "I can finally make my dream game".

AI will bring on the biggest gatekeepers of them all: the ones that own the compute.

I see a different outcome.

- significant amount of money that used to be wages now paid to AI companies

- causing significant power shift to the owners of AI companies

- significant amount of people out of jobs, at the same time blue collar workers still have to work

- causing anger and resentment within society

- fueled by AI owners who will train their models to subtly argue in their favor

- protecting themselves with drones

- significant amount of countries simply go bankrupt or fall apart

- unable to let go of the basic capitalist mindset that cannot work when there simply is no available work for many people

Suffered from ADHD my entire life (undiagnosed). Fixed my chronic insomnia pre-diagnosis. Sure it helped a bit but not even close to medication.

It's already the case. I know a professor and he says most of his students PhD ideas are AI generated, meaning they are outsourcing the fun stuff.

My understanding, and I would love for someone to explain why, is that they measure current with a shunt resistor which is fine for inductive loads like a water heater, but not fine for a big motor for example.

Dashcams are banned for example in Germany.

Wow, 24 years of Linux, I never bothered to look it up. Thanks.

It is in Germany for example, same as sysadmin and IT-Electrician. They all go to trade school. Personally found it a bit useless though.

I've done that too, called it Decisions. Was happy for a while, but then the agent started to make decisions longer and longer, putting "x, not y" in there. It started to write them without asking. Suddenly in code review it would say "violates D-236". Some rule it made up that I never approved. Then I made very clear that it should never touch those files. Still does. Now it's just context bloat.

Do agents actually follow it though? Everything I tried that was not just simple instructions had the same failure mode : ADR, mnemonic, hindsight, code-review-graph, etc were simply ignored by agents after a while. They always fall back to their baseline: grep and Python.

I remember back in the late nineties / early 2000s drive failures really were pretty common. During my childhood I think I had three. I've never had a catastrophic failure since then, really came a long way.

How many people do you personally know that live a better life today than 20 years ago?

Inflation does not hit everyone equally. Poorer people are disproportionately affected.

This is so sad for me. What's humanities purpose? Generate shareholder value? Is this the best we can come up with?

We are destroying the planet and ourselves. There are a few things which we do that are just good in of themselves, which can inspire and proof that there is good. Friendly competition, exploration, art and understanding the world around us.

What world do we want to live in? And what are the kind of personalities that would be required for such a world? A thousand Picards or a thousand Musks?

This could go the star trek or dystopian route, and which way depends on who controls the models.

There is going to be a very shitty in between time where we still need blue collar, but no white collar labor. The amount of conflicts out of that will be insane. And who controls the news?

This seems to miss the point for me, therapy is a series of 20+ conversations, steered by the therapist.

Current LLMs would instead be steered by previous tokens, meaning the patient does. So someone that for example has schizophrenia may actually convince the LLM it's true.

I use this for automated bug triage, just gets all unique error messages every night and tries to find the bug, for this kind of work it's great.

The danger for me is that it's centralized, controlled by a handful of people with their very specific ideas how the world should work. If you believe that AI can be an amplifier to do work than these people now have the most access to the biggest amplifier.

The singularity happening under trump? We could have had star trek, instead we're getting the combine.

As a European, that would change nothing for me. The issue is systemic disinformation, fundamental lack of empathy and all those echo chambers. As long as this exists, the current situation will repeat or get worse.

They're just anti-capitalist nerds, example, they host Linux user groups in a couple cities, collect computers for schools etc.