You know, a really good conventional search engine may actually beat LLM search.

Does not need to be useful? I can write a Perl script that can do arbitrary much code in a few hours! May even compile...

They would certainly like it to be acceptable to their customers. But I think the real danger to them is worse: When the hype collapses, they are screwed. But they cannot deny this happened. So they are signaling "we can and will do better", even when that is a complete lie. Reminds me of MS stating "security is out highest priority" when they found out in 2023 that all (!) of Exchange Online had been compromised in 2021. Of course, they continued their crappy ways and had some more severe cloud compromises. Many people seem to be satisfied with this type of empty promise, so they continue to be used.

Well, if you do not care about result quality, it is usually easy to get productive. Just that the productivity coming out of things will be zero or often negative in this case.

I think the stories indicate that these are just average people. If average means "complete retard" (and I am not sure I would disagree with that), then LLMs have to be safe to use for "complete retards".

The HVDC lines are already there. These installations are not dedicated data center power. And no, data centers in the dessert are a really bad idea, because that would mean you had to pump a lot of water to them. There is no economic alternative to water cooling data centers at this time.

Next stupid question?

They will just steal all your data more quietly now. This is not "sorry we did it", this is "sorry we did it so obviously you noticed".

They just use "honest" to make it appear as if this can be fixed by the LLM learning to do better. In actual reality, this is essentially a hallucination causing worst-case damage. And hallucinations cannot be fixed for general LLMs. Not possible.

While I agree, it looks like this product may actually be too dangerous for use by non-experts. Things for non-experts need to be engineered so that they do not behave surprisingly and do not blow up in your face unless you really mistreat them and completely ignore the instructions. That requirement seems to be very much NOT fulfilled here or for AI agents in general.

That just seems to be the thing: Many people are NOT thinking when it comes to LLMs. They are believing, hoping, expecting, but no rationality is involved. The behavior of these people strikes me more and more as cult-member like.

Indeed. This requires excessive stupidity between keyboard and chair to even be a thing. The AI fanbois are looking more and more like a cult.

Gambling is not "free speech".

I tried this out a while ago with my then-boss. We found that you need two (!) supervising engineers and they need to be significantly more competent that the one doing the work for this idea to actually deliver _and_ you need to slow down things massively. Say, one (!) command or line of code per hour or worse. He had no problems sneaking stuff past me, I had no problems sneaking stuff past him.

I think it is comparable to the level of stupidity that MS displayed when they started blocking accounts by judges and prosecutor it the International Court of Justice. They could not have made it any clearer that they are not a reliable service provider. Or when the gave the personal identification of Swedish Regulators to the US congress, without even trying to fight that order. Yes, I know the actual extreme stupidity happened here when MS did not oppose the law that created this requirement on them.

Long-term, MS will either become irrelevant or will die as result of this extreme disconnect and false sense of being invulnerable.