I got an Idea. How about locating and deleting data centers that host these things? Deleting them from existance.

My home storage setup is currently is two 8 20TB drive arrays - one live, one a remote backup.

I was buying drives to add another stripe when the pricing started to ramp up - I try to buy them over time to get different drives from different lots. Now I wish I'd just bought a bunch.

This time last year they were $369, sometimes cheaper. The most recent one I bought was $500. The cheapest I see them right now is $769.

I think I'll be waiting on that new stripe, but at least I have four spares to keep the existing system running.

The reliance on words like "dreaming" are a cynical marketing ploy to try to make the product seem more human, and more capable, and more intelligent than it really is. Don't get me wrong - these tools are very cool and quite powerful - but strip away some of the layers of unicorn dust and it's still just a (very) sophisticated auto-complete word prediction engine.

It's not alive, it isn't conscious, it doesn't "dream," etc.

AI-Native you say?
Oh, I see ... you mean hype-compliant.

Thank you for your support, comrade.

Can anyone name under what authority this would operate?

I'll wait.

(Executive orders are orders to the executive branch. If you aren't an executive branch employee, they have as much authority over you as a postcard from me does.)

Also a good time to remember that a big part of the anti-Biden case from the techbro money types was how stifling and onerous the "please don't make dangerous robots" guidance was. Bill Ackman upside down in clownshoes on a unicycle, with a kazoo up his ass.

I disagree.

1. Backups were stored on the same volume as live data, and were destroyed by the same command. I agree that is a bad design on the vendor's part, but dude's responsibility was to read and understand the system he was using, and he tacitly admits he didn't understand that:

This is the part that should be a red alert for every Railway customer reading this. Railway markets volume backups as a data-resiliency feature. But per their own docs: "wiping a volume deletes all backups."

2. No, I think you misread - he says he didn't understand the token's scope:

We had no idea — and Railway's token-creation flow gave us no warning — that the same token had blanket authority across the entire Railway GraphQL API, including destructive operations like volumeDelete. Had we known a CLI token created for routine domain operations could also delete production volumes, we would never have stored it.

3. DR !=backups. Disaster recovery is is ensuring you have a path back to operational health from disasters. It is a set of plans, procedures and assets that has to be rehearsed. We test our ours once a year; if you are not exercising your procedures, you don't have a DR plan.

Further, the "agent obtained the key itself" - from stuff it was allowed to dig through. It found the credential hardcoded in a script it has access to. This required three different fuckups to happen:

(1) They didn't understand the scope of the token - see above.
(2) They hardcoded the token (which they didn't understand to be 'root' scoped) in a script. This turns any disclosure into a full compromise.
(3) They obviously let the robot root around lots of stuff it shouldn't have access to. Even aside from the disaster that happened, that's an invitation for adversarial disclosure - if this didn't get them, something else would have at some point.

Replace the word "AI agent" with "rogue employee". Would you blame yourself for them going postal and burning your business down?

To start with the utterly obvious, an LLM is not a human, and if you attempt to substitute one for the other, you are necessarily taking responsibility for the robot's actions. This is the same logic as not leaving weapons laying around where kids can find them, except some do kids have the capacity to know better than to use them.

That aside, I do agree that in early-stage companies you're not going to have the safeguards you need to survive a rogue employee or carelessly deployed robot, except probably around the bank account. Which is all the more reason to to be careful and understand your tools, or pay someone to do that for you.

The industry is shoehorning this shit into every product and service out there despite multiple documented examples of safeguards not working.

Oh my god. Tech companies are exaggerating their capabilities. This is a never-before seen crisis - how can other companies possibly be expected to understand that advertised claims may not be accurate or products might even be dangerous? My faith in capitalism is crushed. Please pass me my High Noon beverage so I can drink it while driving my Ford Pinto as my kid uses their Samsung Galaxy in the back seat.

Dude made several WTF-worthy decisions, any of which would have disqualified him from working anywhere near production where I work.

Let us count the ways:

- Did not take the time understand his own infrastructure (the backup issue)
- Did not take the time to understand permission scoping
- Clearly has never heard the term "disaster recovery"
- Let a robot play in production
- with way too many toys laying around
- and no apparent thought to risk/reward tradeoffs beyond "everybody (I know) does it this way"
- when the bullet encountered his foot, his first impulse was to blame everyone else, rather than own his shit. Unless his next Xitter post describes how he hired someone competent to re-architect and manage his technical infra, if I were a customer, I would be looking for a competent alternative.

My other comment in this thread probably makes it clear how I feel about them.

As a way to try to make suggestions instead of just being negative, I propose sidewalk bike guards. Think of a cattle guard with the slats rotated 90 degrees.

Anyone who has ridden a bike around trolley tracks understands how this works. But they should probably be placed in the middle of blocks, not at the ends. Street signals slow them down at the ends, and you want to disrupt use, not just access.

Self-enforcing, no need to convince arrogant, overfed cops to do their jobs.

I'd be fine with them if they used the street. As is, those things are a fucking menace.

I've seen two bad accidents. One was an electric scooter nailing a pedestrian in the ankle, it was obviously a bad break. The other was an electric bike driven by a delivery person, mowed down a kid, probably under 10. Also looked really bad.

In SF, the cops don't give a shit about bikes or pedestrians. (One of several reasons I don't give a shit about them.) But in a functional polity, that would be at least negligent assault, if not a more severe crime.

I can live with human powered conveyance on the sidewalk, especially if it is kids. Add a motor (don't care what the power source is) and you are a menace I hope I get to see you faceplant at a high speed.

So looks like AI is taking over everything, every platform, every product, every service, every job, it's a plague, a virus, a disease of some sort and apparently there is no cure, someone is always pushing it. Is it AI that is pushing AI?

40% Informative
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    20% Overrated /. has long become a voting system for political opinions that the moderators agree or disagree with, 'Troll' or 'Overrated' means that they disagree with the opinion, yet the opinion is a fact in this case. It is a fact that taxes are introduced by majority voting to take something away from a minority. It is a fact that income taxes were introduced only to tax the top earners and it was 1% for incomes of 3000USD and over, 6% for incomes of half a million and over, it is a fact that can be independently confirmed.

The opinion in this case is that such behavior is confiscation and that it is not a sound foundation for the economy and that eventually these taxes expand to the rest of the population because this is how taxes work.

So I wonder is it the fact or is it the opinion that the /. moderates here? Neither facts, nor opinions are a way to troll anyone, if we mark everything that we disagree with as 'troll' then there is no discourse at all.

Wish I kept the prompt, but I didn't give it much at all. I have also done solitaire as well. I gave it no hints on what the rules where or what the game looked like. It was something as simple as this.

"I want freecell for Mac. Make it as close to the windows version as you can. Write it in swift and make it a native MacOS application with an icon and everything that goes along with that. If you need to download any libraries or compilers ask me to approve them."

I already had xcode installed and I THINK it used that to compile it, but I'm not positive. I didn't need to download anything to get it done, took it about 10 minutes.

So are you saying that a large number of people ganging together to take possession of property that is already owned by a small number of people is a fair way to run society, fair way to tax people, just invent new "taxes" on the fly on property that has been taxed already or that hasn't been sold yet, so there is no transaction, no money exchanging hands? Is THAT how "happy places" operate? Is that a sustainable path towards happiness?

I got tired of my mac not having freecell. So I told claude to create it as a python app with a gui. And it did. But the graphics were a little kludgy. So I told it to try again as a swift app. Boom, I have freecell for mac now. I've never coded anything for mac, I haven't even looked at the (vulnerable) code it's created.