Any person widely known to have a net worth over $100M typically has a security force of some kind, even if the body guards aren’t visible, they’re there working to ensure their target’s safety.

I worked at a drone company in 2012, we were approached by the security team of a silicon valley wunderkind who liked to roller skate to work - drove them batty, they were interested in running aerial surveillance on his route.

Amodei is a particularly “hot topic” these days, not surprising they’re working overtime.

Yeah, the real question is “whose money”? Is that $10 from every person on the planet, or just 8% of Musk?

Dude, I haven’t hand written any assembly code for 30 years… those “AI compilers” have been doing ALL the work, the optimization, and especially the optimizers inject a lot of bugs - particularly in the 25-30 years ago timeframe.

Nobody inside your home ever takes photos and posts them to social media? That’s the thing: they can build databases associating people with places they have been seen, people they have been seen with.

You could visit a friend, get snapped and posted, then your friend could have somebody you don’t know over another time, and now you’re linked to that person and may come up in fishing expeditions around a crime they may be accused of…

Nevermind the faults in the system that place you inside wretched hives of scum and villiany you have never even had the pleasure of visiting yourself, but still you get to defend yourself against accusations stemming from the faulty placement.

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/flock-ai-cameras-denver-woman-false-accusation-package-theft

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-matters/2013/07/19/smile-youre-on-space-cam/

This only seems to affect properties with public listings to source photos from

Has your house been on the market in the past 20-25 years? If so, Zillow and others still publicly show the interior photos from that marketing campaign.

There was a time GIMP’s interface was “too much” for me and I continued to use my old Photoshop CD-ROM, but about 20-23 years ago I got over that. I don’t do any real heavy image manipulation but I still need to do the occational screen capture, crop, resize, rotate, overlay kind of stuff - I’ve had 23 years to get used to it, so GIMP is pretty intuitive for all that, to me (and it had already become so 22 years ago…)

I’d guess you are right, but I don’t know because I haven’t tested it. I’d say: if this guy really devoted a solid month of focused LLM development time on the job, and knows what he’s doing, there’s a chance he’s pretty close to what is claimed in TFA. But I haven’t tested it for myself, so I just don’t know. I’m guessing you are right because most of these projects aren’t done by people who know what they’re doing, and aren’t real heavy effort even during the month they work on them.

Everybody likes what they know, have you given learning GIMP a chance, or does CS6 do things for you that GIMP can’t?

How have the devalued demographic fared since?

To a large extent, they have been replaced with non-citizens. While much is made of physical ability being replaced by machines, it’s far from 100% achieved today. Where physical labor remains necessary, it’s largely filled by a “2nd society” - and members of the “1st society” rarely entertain the notion of pursuing anything resembling a career in doing the physical labor. Meanwhile, the “2nd society” gets abused with limited if any protections from hazardous working conditions, etc.

Seem that if a bug would result in thousands of dollars in losses, paying out $300 is kind of an “own goal” - company giving itself a PR black eye.

CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - this is the reporting system that describes problems with various versions of various software and operating system components / configurations. They generally don’t publish them until a fix is also available. These are the things that tell people: if you don’t upgrade your XYZ an attacker can take control of your system, execute arbitrary code, without you doing anything except connecting to a network the attacker has access to… AI is finding, and fixing, CVEs at about 5-10x the rate that people were finding them without AI 2 years ago.

For me, it’s an example of: if you don’t participate in AI things and make the extra new patches coming out, the attackers who do use AI things are going to pwn your systems with them. Doesn’t matter if you’re a professional developer or not, if you use a computer, you need to apply the patches and updates, if you “opt out of all things AI” you’re just going to be vulnerable.

Stuff like that doesn’t leave a good way to opt out, the environment is changing and if you don’t go with it, you’re going to be victimized by it.

Recent experience, developing in Opus 5.5. Spin up an agent to review the security aspects of the project, write a report. Pass the report to another Opus 5.5 agent and tell it to implement mitigations for confirmed problems found in the report. Implementation agent proceeds to make tests for the described exploits and gets shut down by the guardrails: Opus 5.5 is not permitted to “do that kind of work” had to scale back to Opus 4.8 for the implementation, though 5.5 was still happy to describe the chained attack scenarios, apparently it’s not allowed to develop demonstration code as it was trying to do for the test cases.

This is business.

So was the Opium trade.

By all means, exercise that spine.

Will you also be ignoring the new CVEs if they’re discovered using AI?

What this feels like to me is documentation that should have always been present for all the developers on “the team”, but now that the developers are AI agents they have the bandwidth to be able to write that documentation instead of just shipping the pull request with a terse “it works, check the tests.” note.

As a human developer, I never had the patience to write really good documenation AND keep it in sync with the project as the code evolved through development. I have written good prospective documentation, I have written decent retrospective documentation, but keeping either in sync with the implementation as the implementation evolves during maintenance is a heavy burden - one that LLM agents do without complaint. Yeah, they’re less than perfect, so are the humans on the teams. As long as additional passes invested in making things self consistent are consistently improving the state of things, I’m fine with telling the agent “take another pass at making the documentation consistent with the implementation while I go to this meeting…”

I’m working on Lempi, which is both similar and different - mostly on how the DJ works:

Rufin’s Auto DJ says “more like this track” and trusts the server’s idea of similar. Lempi works like a radio programmer with rules: it decides how often each song may come back, what fits this hour, and what follows well from the last track, then adds a controlled amount of chance.

https://github.com/MangoCats/Lempi

I’ve been off and on developing Lempi for personal use since 2020 - it has other names in the past, most recently changed becasue I was developing under a name somebody else “went wide” with in 2023. There’s a lot of music players out there.

I’ve been making my “the one” for years (off and on) now. I’m getting closer with https://github.com/MangoCats/Lempi - but it’s still got a big cost up front that I’m under-motivated to address because I’ve already paid (segmenting songs, IDing them in MusicBrainz, analyzing them, trimming lead-in lead-out points, etc.)

The thing I like the best about Lempi is that it does “shuffle play” with a reasonable intelligence, auto-selecting a good subset from my collection based on example songs that I want to hear “things like this” during certain timeslots of the day. I can just let it run anytime / all the time like a radio station and not think about choosing my playlist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Streisand_effect_examples

The ironic thing there is that AfD supporters come overwhelmingly from the former East Germany… you would think they’d had enough, but apparently somehow it’s their comfort zone.