Very much this.

The whole cutting sigils into your skill and shedding blood into a "holy vessel" might have medical implications though.

In general, the texts don't actually encourage trying it or tell you you would be a great cult leader.

It does seem to mimic human behavior pretty well, however

Now we rent machines we will never own and pay for other people to poke the servers replacing disks and stuff...

I have to wonder, why would somebody have to drive to New Jersey to reset a server? Haven't they ever heard of remote management?

That's because there have been multiple incidents in recent days. No doubt, the first of many before anyone learns their lesson.

As Slayer points out, these are EXACTLY the people AI and vibe coding is advertised to. The people who know better are exactly the people that sort of person would like to stop paying and replace with the AI. These are exactly the people who would like to have an AI drive a truck loaded with explosives on a public highway so they don't have to pay a driver with a CDL.

It's a shame that honestly the best advice is to protect things you buy from a corporate drive-by.

"We quickly mitigated an attempt to exploit a known issue"

If the issue was known why didn't you mitigate it BEFOREHAND so this would not become an issue?

Trillion-dollar company and can't even be bothered to do basic fixes on known problems before rolling something out. What the fuck.

That would be corporate America working hard to bring us the worst downsides of Soviet Communism, but none of the (granted, limited) upside.

But they didn't do that. The devices had offline functionality. Then the raging asshole manufacturer sent an update that chained them to the mothership.

In a sane world, that update would be a criminal act and swiftly punished along with a court order to back out the change and never do it again.

Perhaps, but.a quick check of open contract positions requires a PhD or in a PhD program as a prerequisite; so it's not like they're getting some kid who just got an undergraduate degree where AI wrote all the papers. I suspect experts with years of experience would be too expensive; altoughretired ones might be enticed just as a side gig.

"My boss believes: "if it is not written down, then it is not done""

If you are an ISO 9001 certified establishment, that's literally the belief of the certification body.

"Look at Gmail. Never been mass hacked"

Nah they just allow relay attacks, which is far worse.

I'll grant that public school isn't doing great in the U.S., but private school has it's own share of problems in the U.S.

I would argue that healthcare would be a good candidate for a public option. Many factors confound market economics in health care.

But in addition, we really need to bring worker's rights into the 21st century.