If Slashdot code ever gets open-sourced, I'll fix the Unicode.

You...can't even write complete sentences.

Your comment makes me think you've never used an LLM to write significant code. Why not advise to use an AGENT.mr?

Do you know how many SV companies let you log in with an empty password because no one tests negative cases? We are so broken as programmers.

It's amazing how few programmers are willing to use a profiler, even if you show them how and why. I don't know what braindead rock our profession collectively crawled out from under, but it's the rock that is allergic to simple tools to solve the problem.

It's the most popular language.

As soon as money gets into your hobby, it will ruin your hobby. Not that PHP could get much worse, but that's my opinion and some people like it. (Personally if I had made PHP, I would have written it in FORTH, with syntactically significant colors).

Since the AI can literally copy humans at any time if it 'chooses' to, it can therefore sound exactly like a human when it 'wants' to.

That is, even if you wrote a 100% perfect human/AI distinguisher, there are times when it would be wrong because the AI produces words that were exactly produced by a human.

It looks like if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

They're just thug gangs. What makes them weird is that they're government subsidized.

That means labor disputes with the government boss aren't resolved with a bullet, so you get collective action like that. (See also Dinkens & the NYPD.)

But it is a great time to clean house in that town! Get some professionals in quick, though - the former cops will figure out their extortion failed soon enough and need income, and they're not going to find anything honest that pays as well as being a badged thug.

Here's the problem, and why everyone resents this crap (your fellow IT folks most of all)...

Yeah, great, you're an Exchange admin and can send email "from" any random VP you want. And you have access to their recent document history so can "spice it up" by referencing actual projects we might really be assigned to. When your phishing tests are literally indistinguishable from legitimate emails, you're not "testing" anything, you're daring people to ignore legitimate work at risk of their continued employment.

If "my boss" sends me an email, which the headers show really came from his account, and asks me to take a look at a spreadsheet we worked on three days ago - You're not being clever, you're an asshole.

Well, it would be interesting to hear why you disagree with anarchy so profoundly.

My basic principal is that "illegitimate hierarchies are bad." In particular, having a hierarchy without consent is bad (ie, no taxation without representation sort of thing).

I would like to say I have a full system for how a very good anarchy system should look, but I fully admit it's not an easy problem. So instead I focus on general principals, and trying to find incremental changes that will improve things with high probability.

Realistically, modern democracies are already a massive improvement on the situation in most countries 300 year ago, with a much weaker hierarchy. Since a full revolution carries significant risk, it's better to make incremental improvements one at a time (unless the problems in the current system are severe). But simplistic "left-right" thinking and political parties are both a net negative, as they are both a method employed by bullies to to increase their power over others. So I feel confident getting rid of them would be an improvement (although I do admit there are some benefits to parties, like recruiting candidates to smaller, less important offices or recruiting election observers. So we need to be aware of the positive and the negative).

Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf would LOVE to have a conversation with you! But first, just one question: Would anyone like toast?

The correct quote is, "Don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate it when you do that!"

If we can just teach these AI agents to masturbate,the AI apocalypse can be averted!