peteradio

> The lesson is, business people will gladly let safety lapses occur with software because

I'm going to stop you right there and refer you back to the 4lb hammer. If you are being pushed around to build violently shitty stuff you are part of the problem.

> DAG of other devices

Its well known you can infer the safety of a specification by assessing a small subset of its features. Quod erat demonstrandum. /s

But seriously, this is how backdoors are trivially integrated.

That was 40 years ago! What lessons were learned from that are even relevant to this? Should I be worried about early days development lessons today or the billion of lines code dependency for a simple medical device? You are aware of the trillion dollar target on the smartphone back? You want to incorporate that into you medical device for what possible reason?

> slapdash in-house solution that will almost certainly be worse.

Truly libelous shilling for the app store.

Ok but hands off my chickens hoa clucker

I've seen self described "product owners" claim to build using LLM outputs without knowing how to code.

Money won by definition is not lost so therefore I'm rich!

I guess a general application of statistics and control is going to be called ML then? If that's the world we're living in then I wonder how the missing fraction are being governed. Pure malice?

> All he had to do to win was use a different stick shaped object for the test.

His WEEEENNUS?????

I'm saying that forcing particular technology leads to worse products in many cases.

Teams doesn't even do copy paste or open Microsoft based formats in under 10 seconds (IME)... I rest my case.

I'm not talking about LLMs in particular. I guess this is a company wide mandate to grow knowledge of how to do this stuff well, I mean that makes sense. But in the trenches (aka hells-ahole) that means a lot of bad bad stuff is being relied on and it generates calcification of business segments and kafkaesque anti-patterns for the uninitiated. This doesn't only apply to "AI" its a generic feature of shoe-hornings. The problem with the shoe-horn is that its politically costly to resist even if it makes good business sense to resist at the micro level.

Does it make a difference of context whether or not they've successfully shoehorned only 99%?

> Half the time an engineer is sitting around thinking or drinking all the coffee.

Is that supposed to sound like a bad thing?

> tangible improvements, process cranking, or institutional knowledge, the most valuable people are the admins

Valuable like a splinter in your big toe. "It hurts when I move it!"

It's true I'll hate on micrsoft for about anything but they didn't say "some products" "some services" "some processes", they said "EVERY SINGLE THING!!!", see the difference?

> AI models are used in almost every one of our products, services and operating processes at Microsoft

Oh boy. Any insight from microsfot peoples on this apparent hell-hole?

In particular I'm refuting the study that purports to measure NO DIFFERENCE with or without a hood. I am saying that is so far outside the realm of the every man's experience with vent hoods that I think the study is busted in some way. UFP is coming from the food you cook, its irrelevant for gas vs electric right?

Hate to say it, but I don't know how trust worthy those studies are especially the one claiming vent hoods have no impact! If I cook bacon on my stove without a venthood the entire main floor would reek and require opening windows and doors to air it out. With a vent hood there is literally no issue with smell. Are you telling me that the vent hood is somehow picks and chooses which pollutants to expel leaving behind NO2? What mechanism would there be to cause it to behave this way? I'll choose to believe my lying eyes.

Indeed, in python you can just eval.

Nah uh! We are still warring! Israel winks at Gaza, Iran squeezes the U.S.A's ass.

I used to hide porn deep in the lotus folder cache. We are kindred spirits!

I don't know if people anticipated contemporary parroting behavior over huge datasets. Modern well funded models can recall an obscure persons home address buried deep into the training set. I guess the techniques described might be presented to the European audience in an attempt to maintain access to their data/and or market for sales. I hope they fail.

I know its fun to beatoff dead horses.

No worries girl! Plenty of tards livin kick ass lives! My first wife was tarded, now she works at microsfot.

The assistants might be good enough to produce homework level or test level answers to contrived questions. But then utterly fall over in a real world codebase.

Thousands of new MBAs are minted each day, practically a commodity at this point.

I prefer cooking in my own kitchen with gas stove and range hood than my parents with induction and no hood. It is a disgusting mess to cook on a stove without a hood.

> Yes it does: all cooking will generate chemicals, but you're adding extra ones by using a combustible heat source.

All that goes up the hood and outside. Criticize the hood not the range if its not functioning properly. Browning meat or frying anything in oil is not exotic and is not good for you to breathe regardless of range type.

Bilk Gates infected you with windows, perhaps some sort of parasitic control is causing you to believe it was mutually beneficial.

Weak examples which are utterly penetrated by the inevitable phallus.