If the bomb goes off AI companys’ enterprise customers will die like flies. That’s not good for business. If they scaled up too fast, AI companies can’t get a return on their investments and die with their clients.

Depends though, because companies like Google and Meta are still ad platform companies first when looking at profits.

I’ve got a friend from Germany with a Tesla and keeps complaining about it. Shoddy work, many pieces that are not aligned properly, vibrate a certain speeds etc. “Wouldn’t happen in a German car.” Yet the acceleration and some of the more advanced features still make it fun to drive. Tesla outperforms by looking new and advanced while cutting corners with the basics.

Still shit for the SW engineer job market.

Switzerland isn’t. Palantir even sued the Swiss newspaper that reported on it.

They don’t care about HW. HW is just a “distribution line” for their software. They care more about people using their software and giving them data. Most Android phones sold are not Google’s Pixels but third party vendors. If a particular device doesn’t sell well they won’t care as ling as the Google ecosystem gets strengthend.

Bought the Fairphone with e/OS.

Problem is many see Android equivalent with Samsung and Samsung is the worst when it comes to customize your HW because they really lock down their shit.

For my phone I just bought a new battery after many years of use and it’s back to working as if it’s new. Before that I had a Shift phone (with Google, I think) which allowed me to replace the camera module once the autofocus in the camera broke.

Not sure if I’m old fashioned, but I like to own my devices and modify them if I please.

My wife would hate it, if I were no longer reachable.

No. I haven’t used Google apps on my phone for years already. That includes Google Play Services and the Play Store. Most apps are open source and I’m self hosting my media.

We gotta claw this shit back.

It’s not a defense of the LLM. They are bad tools: LLMs can be unpredictable and if you hand them a nuke they may trigger it for whatever reason, even harmless and unrelated ones.

So don’t hand them a nuke, idiots.

I was kinda for it, but with the dangerous rise in quasi-nazi party AfD, I wonder what’s the point of banning a nazi flag… and it’s even more ridiculous that foreign ethno religious supremacists enjoy that level of protection.

Of course I’m not invested in individual transportation companies. Even less with the ones refusing to set on EVs.

Not mentioned in the article but Gemini is obviously developed by the DeepMind teams, among many other things.

I don’t think utopias are a bad idea in general, but if they somehow are only reachable by collapsing most of the current system before any groundwork can even be attempted… a form that can be developed in parallel and take over at some point makes much more sense.

Think about the transition and hopefully it doesn’t require nuclear war.

Had a similar experience when SCUBA diving recently. New pressure gauges these days are digital and I still think the analog ones are not only prettier, but also functionally more convenient. You don’t need to be able to read numbers to know you’re getting into the red. Maybe they have some extra feature but I didn’t need it.

You don’t sell the same amount of product when you have to increase the price. You may need to shrink your business to not get the remaining margin getting eaten up by operational costs.

I agree that 0-days aren’t numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.

On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.

I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.

The job market is actually pretty bad right now and with all the recent layoffs in tech very saturated. Unionizing would make more sense.

But we have to identify this as what it is: an internal policy failure where they abandon proven processes to maintain code quality.

I guess I’m lucky my managers have not put that pressure on me yet. I do however see developers getting sloppy and lazier so the reviews actually do take more effort and AI rarely catches all problems with a change.

At least in my experience these models are pretty good now to write code based on best practices. If you ask for impractical things they will start doing ugly shortcuts or workarounds. A good eye catches these and you either rerun with a refined prompt, fix your own design or just keep telling it how you want to have it fixed.

You still gotta know how good code looks like to write it, but the models can help a lot.

Or rather the right to use shovels under ToS that can be changed on a whim.

I really don’t get this quantity-first approach. If you wanted to actually transform the world with tech in a way it’s not just superficial, you’d create task forces that sit together with specialist in each field of medical, construction, logistics, finance etc. give them 2 years to build prototypes and action plans. Then bet on the N most promising applications, spin them off as separate companies with premium access to your most advanced AI models and vertically integrate them into their workflows.

This would actually, sustainably achieve a foothold into these industries, disrupt and transform them long term.