That is the plan. But eventually they will start dying to the same buggy hospital code that the rest of us use, or whatever other issue.
There’s a billionaire fantasy that they can afford to buy artisinal everything, and not get poisoned by the results of their own stupid callousness.
I don’t believe it. I do believe they will try, for awhile.
I don’t have the insight to say for sure why (though I have some guesses),
In the USA, there’s a tax break for research teams expiring this year. Supposedly it made software develoent team salaries fully tax deductable.
In the USA, I suspect this is the real motive for using the AI hype train to justify layoffs.
I’m willing to admit “Most CEOs are stupid” also has merit, of course.
Right now they are. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
We do. Experienced programmers who have been promised we’re about to be obsolete several times, now. For many of us, this isn’t our first rodeo.
As an expert in computers, there’s two things I can guarantee about the future of computers:
Was there really a massive exodus? If so, where to?
Investors understand what it looks like when the early adopters have left, and the early adopters have left Reddit.
Some came to Lemmy. Many were already on Discord.
So true. In Final Fantasy 8, the amount of Cura my mage had pulled out of the world was probably enough to power an entire hospital for a year.
I felt a bit weird about that. Seemed like there should be a Cura donation truck or something.
Yes. That’s why cats get along well with various magical kin. The cat learns their true name, but has the decency never to speak it.
Agreed. Architecturally, there’s no reason to have a prompt injection risk, of any kind, here.
But, that was true about Log4J, as well - until we learned otherwise.
I tend toward extra caution in this modern era of libraries stacked on libraries.
It’s seen tech talks by Twitch’s engineering team. Some of those folks are scary smart.
Not that it takes that much cleverness to avoid using CloudFlare, of course.
But might be related. Twitch had some clever fallbacks and work-arounds for slow Internet, in that tech talk.
They can crash on my couch, if they need to.
It seems like the forbidden fruit of knowledge is giving us problems instead of only solving them.
It does often feel that way. I take comfort that understanding we have problems is the first step to improving things.
But also - the 1990s were way better than any era before, or since. (Edit: Since tone is hard to convey in text: This is a joke. Treating LGBTQ+ folks with any decency has come a long way since the 90s. I wouldn’t go back.)
Yes. Exactly. Votes are counted accurately, and then carefully grouped (gerrymandered) to prevent public opinion from influencing the planned election outcome.
We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.
Counterpoint: I find networking challenging, and I’m not particularly accountable for the natural consequences of not knowing how stuff works.
This could end fine for everyone? Maybe an AI will understand it for me. (This is sarcasm. I agree with you.)
I have faith that a fan fiction about a post-transition Harriet Potter will make it big, someday, maybe even be more popular than the original.
I’ll do whatever I can to support it, just to annoy folks who deserve to be annoyed, for being brittle and hurtful about such things.
Yea. It is a difficult long process to DeGoogle.
We even have a support group for it, here:
We’re all at different stages, but swap tips and tricks.
Yes. Email has always been one of the more vulnerable parts of the computer ecosystem, because any stranger can use it to send a (malicious) file into your computer or server for processing.
Simpler email is safer. Every new feature has bugs. Some bugs are vulnerabilities.
Gmail adding learning models is creating a new risk for you.
How large that risk is, has yet to be discovered.
My armchair opinion is that the new risk is minimal, compared to the rest of the risks of using email. But time will tell.
I’m the meantime, if I still used Gmail, I would turn the LLM features off and let someone else discover how risky it is.
I also agree that it’s time for rational people to leave Gmail, if they can. But my reasons are privacy reasons, rather than security reasons.
Yes. It was early social media.
I always kept a Garfield plushy in my car window, to let people know how I felt about Mondays.
We were pretty desperate back then.
We’d agree to use the same encrypted messenger.
You’ve revealed the real reason we need cloning technology. It would be glorious.
I think you’re in denial.
I challenge you (and anyone) to explore the furry community and not run across some excellent Cybersecurity content!
These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.
Yes. We’re just getting there. There wasn’t really any hiring of junior developers, and it takes about three years for a junior to grow into a senior.
It also takes 3-5 years for stupid code choices to hurt in ways that affect a businesses bottom line.
These two factors should boil over each-other nicely in the near future.