I once left a Yelp review for Orion's shoulder. I gave it one star.

Mostly the fact that they easily leak / crack / crumble. But if you have a robot that can just turn your home back into mud and build it again, then sure. Why not?

I guess they just need to fire whoever aimed that rocket.

I mean, I guess you could say it's like Shroedinger's cat. You find out when you open the box. And there probably is a universe where you had a backup because your house didn't burn down, you're just in the wrong one.

You don't need a container, you just need to not have production secrets on your dev box

Yes exactly. What you're describing is a situation where you *thought* you had a backup and realized that you did not.

If you can't recover from it, it's not a backup.

Not a coder, are you? We keep project secrets in a .env file. Claude is supposed to not read it by default. Which it does, but for example if you have it open in the active vscode window it might peek and they you probably have to reset all your api keys.

You sound like me, I've got so many of these dumb client data loss stories Including one that started with the client asking me to give an intern remote access to the database and it ended with bitcoin ransomware lol.

The most capable open weights models right now are all Chinese (GLM 5.1 at the top). I suppose the pentagon should embrace those?

xAI merged with SpaceX, you must've blinked and missed it.

Figures the administration would settle on an inverted meritocracy.

Those weren't backups. They were dumps.

I had a conversation with claude code the other day when I realized that it had peeked at my .env (and sent it back to the model). I told it to make sure that it never does that again, whatever it had to do to ensure it never tries to look at my secrets. It said: Done, it won't ever happen again. Then I asked it if it can still happen again and it said yes. D'oh!

We know that Musk initially intended it to be non-profit, but at some point he made it clear that it was going to shift to a for-profit model.
 
This happened around the time the Google transformers paper came out when it suddenly became clear the tech was actually right around the corner.