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I agree completely and I wish I was wrong as well. Luckily I don't develop software in a company that sells software (aside a few support utilities). What I see is that everyone is starting vibe coding and my job is to create a harness now. Within a year there is a software pipeline for a 500 people company that would rival a huge enterprise just a few years/months ago while still offering the flexibility of "agile/unplanned" development.

I have a huge backlog of reviewing code. Luckily most apps stay internal, but the desires to even host services on the net growths daily.

Last year december I had about 10 repositories with internal code bases. Now I have 100+. I constantly have to "renovate" apps that spawn CVS left and right. This was a pivot for me to develop myself to become a kindergarden teacher.

I don't have fears to be replaced, I have more problems with huge work loads... And software that was previously bought to solve a problem is now just vibe coded and copied by people that seriously don't understand the system they are developing. Well, interesting times...

Seems like very sensible actions. Heat-health warning system - I don't understand this. Isn't this basically just the weather forecast doing its thing?

We do it through a central ai tool server, openAI compatible interface + MCP, where any knowledge ingested is still linked to the source (always good) and the authorisation layer of the source that was ingested. If we consume a wiki where permissions are managed with a Windows AD, this info needs to be collected when you ingest the information. Such connectors are source specific and must be aware how the system manages permissions. With the correct architecture, you

That way any agent tool only has the information the employee was able to access anyway. A larger problem is to ensure quality control for any answers with different context depths, but that isn't easily testable with or without access management.

It isn't product-y, but often the standard RAG-AI pipeline that is also used to delegate queries to either local or remote agents (and the latter might also not be allowed to consumer PII for example - access management on the other side)

That sounds like a configuration issue. You can have it confirm any command. But sure, on a developer machine, Claude Code basically has shell access as the user (which can be as helpful as it is dangerous).

I don't see a benefit at all to push it into the "cloud", on the contrary. Especially since network level analysis for agent tasks is quite sensible and far easier to manage "locally".

Today I would recommend to put infrastructure back on premise for that matter, especially with AI development support, this is increasingly favourable for many companies.

A sandbox for AI development makes sense for that matter. Not cloud, network segmented, middlewares for data access, etc.

I think this is why some CEOs panic and want to kill consumer hardware as soon as possible.

Sad part is that hardware manufacturers are fully on board with this because for them the datacenter deals are quite lucrative. In the long run, this will probably bite them in the butt though.

And I think they suffer bad management if it cannot serve solutions to both problems.

I have a pure LED desktop lamp and can also say that insects swarm to them as well as my monitors.

There probably are insects that don't perceive the "thinner" spectrum, but generally it (sadly) isn't true.

The editors were blocked, but the bad thing is that the misinformation persists as all articles are frozen. I would think Wikipedia would be responsible to either remove them or correct them.

Firewall for http traffic while blocking everything else can easily check for weird connections. If you use your TV for browsing, better buy a PC.

One would think that TV manufacturers would provide the means the root TVs so consumer would still buy them. Our TV is kept offline and a fanless low power PC facilitates all content. We would have liked to buy a new TV, but being the real owner would be a hard requirement for that. And a new one would just need to be able to do what the PC today already does.

Some TV already fail at just being a larger monitor and I think most products just suck.

Both is completely secure theoretically. You can read the output of the curl before you refetch and pipe it to bash. You can also look at the commands claude is executing.

You always do that, right? ...right?

Reddit more or less distanced itself from him though. Since then the platform thoroughly degraded too in my opinion.

But yes, if the US government would want to appear at least partially "just", it would apply the same pressure here. Somehow that is very doubtful.

And again shame on reddit for being that spineless.

It isn't stupid at all to put out a message like this, correct (unlikely) or not (likely).

For several reasons. Israel will never try to win a popularity contest with moderately educated college kids that will change their opinion in a few years anyway. To do that would be entirely stupid.

For in the middle east such messages do serve a purpose. Main reason here is the election of course.

Yes, many countries have them in some form or another. Their existence is not proof of anything.

In fact there is no proof about any impact. As someone who is online too much already, it is highly doubtful the impact is significant and there are more studies pointing to the opposite. High school teens to more impressive online raids if you say you dislike k-pop. Some claim there is a background effect, but anyway...

Troll farms have an interest to overstate their impact. Are you a troll? Easy accusation, isn't it?

Turns out people that voted incorrectly on issues like Brexit where quite focused on Brexit as a multi-faceted political issue. For example they might have objected to be called victims of Russian propaganda. Which is a statement on the level of tea leaf reading.

That highly depends on the receiver. Currently in any public setting there is more or less no instance where "being sorry" will help you.

Utilitarian view, sure. Outrage sells, some people are addicted to outrage. They don't want an apology, they want to see people burn. Under no circumstances ever apologise to them (or lawyers).

Wisdom and self-reflection has no value in current political climate. It requires the correct audience.

I think building a OpenAI compatible RAG-pipeline that also perhaps includes the anthropic sdk let's you have the best of both worlds. You can build it in a way that a local agent can escalate to a frontier model when needed and also substitute prompts data that you want to hide from being "public". For example. I think that is meant by harness here.

And with some smart feedback loops, you will see that for home assistant type tasks local AI can pretty quickly fulfil all requirements. For quick responses or voice analysis you might want to start with an external provider.

Otherwise, I think for complex home automation around 24-32gb vram are a realistic house number, but more experienced users will probably need less here.

People say that tools are called by the model. That isn't entirely correct. The caller calls the tools, the model just formulates the syntax for it. So the model part can be externalised without you needing to compromise you system fully (just to the degree the tools would allow anyway)

Really nice app. Can partially destroy you faith in humanity if I look at trends in my country, but nice to see how different platforms might diverge or converge on topics.

People can very practically exchange information without any government knowing the content. This was true from the beginning and is still true today.

The network infrastructure makes it possible to exchange privileged information and tunnel it through insecure channels. That is who we do banking on our phones while using the trains wifi (I would still not recommend to do that). Or generally establish VPN connection. Real data privacy is possible without a physical network.

I disagree with the parent, there is an uncensored net. Most people aren't interested in it for convenience but we should be quite happy it exists.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.

No, it is really not. I have no horse in the race and know little about the politics in Brazil. But if anyone frames political competition as a right or left wing debate, it is very, very likely horseshit.

Fact checking systems often lack context and self-correction mechanisms, suffer from selection bias and numerous other problems that doesn't elevate them above other forms of media. Especially media that doesn't claim to be an authoritative source.

You probably could have constructed a fact checker that would have said that 75% is true, the completely other way around. For most truths or facts that is entirely possible without any contradiction if you change perspective. This basic media literacy isn't optional and it cannot be outsourced.

I think this framing is pretty much disinformation itself. Sure, Russia tries to influence elections like every other country does as well, democracies or not.

Currently we see such claims resurfacing on topics like Brexit or other contemporary issues. If you look at the hard data of visibility on the attempts of Russia, they are in a similar spot as their economy. Doing decently poorly.

If any domestic news article or politician points their fingers at Russia, it is probably to distract from something else. Sure, if you are situated in Ukraine, the story is different. The latter does have to swallow the results of the moronic foreign policy of quite a few western nations for that matter and it would be served well if a bit of sensible reflection would be put on the table.

They are impressive but I often ask myself why so much effort is spend here. While people are curious about results, a bit of waiting for the counts shouldn't matter.

The most "sensible" application would be for betting markets I thought.

Agreed. I did do image processing on skin and have to say it is just very very difficult to get 100% correct. In my opinion, even if some systems do outperform some doctors, it can only work as diagnostic support.

Anomalies are very hard to detect on certain skin tones and creating data sets from image material is quite a lot of work, even if you have access to large clinics specialised on dermatology with diagnosed and undiagnosed material.

Not seeing LLM to perform very well here and hallucination would be a major issue (not at all a solved problem, even frontier models do hallucinate/match the most probable path. Perhaps a problem that cannot be solved without arbitrary rules.)

And I guess some SVM still outperform CNN, just that CNN provide a pretty good learning environment that can improve upon ingesting more data. Although there is a risk associated with that as well.

Still, if we had well documented data material, many algorithms and AIs would perform well. The work is getting the data in a dependable state.

Not from the US, but I don't see political pushback on rocket launchers for police cars.

With a weird horizontal loop cut.

I you sweep up an hedgehog, will it be thrown out through the exhaust?

No chance it will get a permission to drive on the streets in my country. It also is a completely useless feature but it is still awesome.

Guess it is for advertising mainly.

I think you need to separate these issues. Economic pressure is a separate concern that doesn't stem from a more arbitrary source. A society can and should shield you from it, but doing so will always create societal expectations on someone else.

If you cannot provide for yourself, someone else has to do so. That someone else technically might be subjected to societal expectations to not leave you behind because he has the means to do so. Mothers still have large expectation on them on how they have to treat their children. If those run around freely, you will get a lot pressure in the US. Quite a silly country. But I believe this is an exception to the general development.

I separate purely economic pressure from the moral and ethical requirements you have today and these are clearly declining in my opinion. These were always subjected to change, but usually expectations get exchanged for new ones and old ones are done away with.

Weird gender science, middle eastern war or domestic politics experts are loud and they do indeed put forward expectations. But their ambitions aren't generally awarded by society, on the contrary. Sometimes for very good reason, sometimes not. But generally there are far less expectations for behaviour, expression, opinions. Also sometimes for good reason and sometimes not.

I think most societies lost expectations and care less about their environment (no in the ecological sense, but that too...).

I disagree with a lot of these social analysis texts because I think they misunderstand a fundamental premise. There is no pressure from society today, on the contrary. You had that when we were living in villages where everyone knew each other and it is what city dwellers escaped from.

But this never had been reevaluated. Modern societies are detached, nobody really cares what you do, you don't know your neighbours, you have no "third place" or common place any more.

So norms and rules are far less pronounced than in any other time in human history, far less so.

If you go out without pants in a big city, very few people would care. In better situated parts, you can expect that the police will probably pick you up. In less fortunate environments, you would just be pantless.

This is the opposite of expectations and pressures. I think many just aren't really part of a society or environment any more.

For some that is a great loss while others strive in this state as well. For many having some kind of responsibility is a very important part of their lives, but modern societies offer little here. We optimise for as little attachment as possible to stay flexible and dynamic. That of course can be a pressure as well, but not in the sense it is often suggested.

But summarised I think the problem is fundamentally misunderstood: Society doesn't put pressure on anyone, society simply stopped caring about you. I think this is what most societal analysts get completely wrong.

This is really nicely done and well presented, thank you.

Probably, although the technology isn't new to secure these instances. Setup a proxy that uses standard IPsec VPN tunnel into corporate. This isn't rocket science and you would only need to power a device that is completely preconfigured. That way you can create a reasonably safe environment before we even talk about application level security.