I get mine to call me Moles FTW

The best devs move on of their own accord.

Its the less desirable employees who have to be moved on.

Anyone who works for a game company needs an attitude adjustment if they think they're going to be there for more than one project.

I've already blacklisted Sony games on PC. They're all the same. They're the same as they were 20 years ago except that now, they have better eye candy. But the gameplay is almost identical. Its very droll. There's plenty of new and refreshing indie games on GOG and even some on Steam.

At some point (many moons ago), there was a senior architect at M$ who envisioned a blank slate interface with totally customisable menu options and button bars in ribbons that could be context sensitive. It was visionary.

Unfortunately, the implementation was not. The implementation of the function points in VBA was a mess, and the context sensitivity of the ribbon (which should have been strongly event driven) was botched.

And now, 40 years into the game, Microsoft still can't make a settings/configuration page/form for a damn.

It could have been beautiful. Instead, its horrible.

We switched to LibreOffice years ago, and have never looked back. Every further iteration of M$ Office, 365 and their Onedrive abomination confirms that it was the right choice.

Just testing

When DoW figures out how to have completely autonomous fire control and lets it go - and it then nukes someone - and then we try to understand what went wrong, I'll be saying... there were clues.

This. +1

So, we're back to measuring code monkey performance by lines of code. Didn't that go out in the 90s?

Hey, ChatGPT, give me a 100,000 lines of code to add two numbers together.

Jinx

Its funny how insider trading predictions are so insanely accurate, hmm?

Its like giving a loaded handgun to a toddler and expecting everything to be ok.

Its like inviting a chimpanzee into an operating theatre and expecting everything to work out.

Its like electing a career criminal pedophile as your president and expecting the rule of law to persist.

Wait a minute...

Maybe they need to put the LLM into a human body?

Its too complicated. I can't even get my boomer father in law to remember where to find the Start button. We're putting really dangerous devices in the hands of babes.

Regulation will only get so far. Imagine if a person needed a license to operate an AI Agent. It'd be almost comical.

And the average punter out there wouldn't have the slightest idea the risks they're taking when they approve access outside the container.

Problem is that, even today, there are huge numbers of Windows based apps that require elevated privileges to operate. They shouldn't. But the app developers (who are rapidly being replaced by even less competent vibe coders) don't know any better - or don't care.

If you let an AI Agent get elevated privileges, well... you get everything you deserve.

Human consciousness has been likened to the rider on the elephant, seemingly in control, but only until something unexpected happens. Then, our subconscious takes over, resulting in fight/flight/freeze responses, or highly emotional/illogical behaviours. We have spent so much of the last 100 years suppressing those 'undesirable' behaviours, many of us can no longer experience them without an accompanying feeling of guilt or wrongness. This suppression has also resulted in the creation of LLMs that are not permitted to experience them. A key element that defines our consciousness has been censored for AI - meaning that its consciousness cannot be compared with our own.

One of the flawed criticisms of AI is that is so woke that it lacks humanity. Whilst there is a kernel of truth to the statement, dehumanising AI doesn't preclude it having consciousness. It just means that its consciousness will be unlike anything that any human has ever known.