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> I don’t believe for a second that they lack the engineering talent. Let's agree to disagree. Remember flicker-gate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908
> But the event itself only seems possible because they failed to properly monitor and isolate the environment in the first place. OpenAI is clearly run by dummies and subpar engineering talent. > The model is obviously…
> Isn't this a show of security negligence rather than of exceptional agent capabilities? Seems to me you could say this about all enterprise adoption of "AI" since 2023.
At my job in 2023, after the staff engineers quit, new-hire engineers backed by new-hire managers pushed through a series of 5,000-10,000 line GPT 3.5 PRs affecting ludicrously convoluted, critical Makefiles designed…
> On what planet do people start paying for things without keeping an eye on the costs and no-one notices until you have spent a crazy amount? I don't understand. You are either paying a fixed amount which you are happy…
> The industry has always been stupid and selfish and short-sighted but now the ICs at the bottom of the pyramid are themselves being commoditized like all the workers they "disrupted". Are you allowed to use the word…
> There are still many places where engineers or knowledge workers are respected and left to lead (or not) AI adoption. Please start naming names
This site aggressively suppresses any criticism of LLMs, especially LLM generated/"assisted" code.
2022/2023 is when the AI wrecking crews came in in full force
> when i brought this up with my manager they just said "WORK HARDER, SLAVE"
> most importantly developers saying "we no longer know how this code works but it's massively bloated and unreadable and we can't tell you with a straight face that we can maintain it or fix it if it breaks." To anyone…
I don't believe that you're asking in good faith based on the rest of your comment.
> It's true they don't HATE people Maybe so, but perhaps the most successful part of the AI marketing pitch has been exploiting management's hatred of labor (and vice versa). A significant motivator for a lot of the…
> Wow, fantastic, you can build all your software in house, zero dependencies. Wait, your users can do the same? And they don’t need to pay you anymore for any of your cool services because they just asked their agents…
Let me guess: AGI is 2-6 weeks away, software development is solved, and anyone who disagrees with your enlightened perspective is a backwards-looking luddite.
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> I don’t believe for a second that they lack the engineering talent. Let's agree to disagree. Remember flicker-gate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908
> But the event itself only seems possible because they failed to properly monitor and isolate the environment in the first place. OpenAI is clearly run by dummies and subpar engineering talent. > The model is obviously…
> Isn't this a show of security negligence rather than of exceptional agent capabilities? Seems to me you could say this about all enterprise adoption of "AI" since 2023.
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At my job in 2023, after the staff engineers quit, new-hire engineers backed by new-hire managers pushed through a series of 5,000-10,000 line GPT 3.5 PRs affecting ludicrously convoluted, critical Makefiles designed…
> On what planet do people start paying for things without keeping an eye on the costs and no-one notices until you have spent a crazy amount? I don't understand. You are either paying a fixed amount which you are happy…
> The industry has always been stupid and selfish and short-sighted but now the ICs at the bottom of the pyramid are themselves being commoditized like all the workers they "disrupted". Are you allowed to use the word…
> There are still many places where engineers or knowledge workers are respected and left to lead (or not) AI adoption. Please start naming names
This site aggressively suppresses any criticism of LLMs, especially LLM generated/"assisted" code.
2022/2023 is when the AI wrecking crews came in in full force
> when i brought this up with my manager they just said "WORK HARDER, SLAVE"
> most importantly developers saying "we no longer know how this code works but it's massively bloated and unreadable and we can't tell you with a straight face that we can maintain it or fix it if it breaks." To anyone…
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I don't believe that you're asking in good faith based on the rest of your comment.
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> It's true they don't HATE people Maybe so, but perhaps the most successful part of the AI marketing pitch has been exploiting management's hatred of labor (and vice versa). A significant motivator for a lot of the…
> Wow, fantastic, you can build all your software in house, zero dependencies. Wait, your users can do the same? And they don’t need to pay you anymore for any of your cool services because they just asked their agents…
Let me guess: AGI is 2-6 weeks away, software development is solved, and anyone who disagrees with your enlightened perspective is a backwards-looking luddite.