It amazes me that the company's first reaction wasn't to publicly discipline him (and I'd expect that discipline to be firing). If it's actually a one-time action of a single employee who doesn't reflect the institution, that's what you do.

Instead they basically told their readers "we don't have any journalistic integrity whatsoever". Guess I'm adding Ars to my Google News exclusion list.

I would imagine that having your lead rival completely self-own themselves doesn't hurt either.

Ever model is, ultimately, just the distillation of human responses saved in a database (plus some logic).

Since the details of that distillation have a major impact on what the AI does, it seems like a reasonable thing to care about.

This is a textbook example of taking anomalies out of context and drawing some giant (false) conclusion.

First, Stack Overflow is unique: you can't compare it to any other site or project. Their decline started long before AI (with their decision to encourage chasing newcomers off the site), and AI just hastened it.

Second, Tailwind had a uniquely bad product/business model. Other OSS projects are doing fine, because they have products (eg. support contracts) people actually want. In contrast, better and free (open source) Tailwind UI libraries exist; the only reason people used Tailwind's (worse) library was because they found it on the docs page.

Tailwind's case has NOTHING to do with any other project ... unless they too are financially dependent on a terrible product that people only barely want, and will only buy if they see it mentioned on a docs page.

> a human employee confirmed the data was permanently lost and unrecoverable.

I find that suspect. You can wipe your entire hard drive and *still* recover most of what got deleted (source: I've done it).

It's painful, and all your files might be in one giant folder with meaningless names, but at least with a bit of effort you can find/recover the key files.

I strongly suspect whoever this guy asked just wasn't aware of recovery options.

A Playwright test suite that covers a (very real/live/in-production) UI. I did it at least 10x as fast as if I hadn't used vibe coding ... and I say this as someone who has implemented multiple Playwright test suites, without AI, at past companies.

Yes, you have to read the code the computer produces for you. No, doing that is not anywhere close to the speed of not using AI and writing everything yourself like a luddite.

AI is just another coding tool, and (much like every coding tool that came before it) both the people promising it will replace programmers area wrong, AND the people claiming it's worthless are wrong.

I mean it depends, doesn't it ... on how he acquired the stolen credentials?

It's HSR for like 0.01% of its route (not the actual percentage, but the actual percentage is very small). And even then, it will operate on the slowest end of what constitutes "HSR" ... nowhere close to the speeds of bullet trains.

The vast, vast majority of the *proposed* line (which most doubt will ever get made) operates at normal rail speeds ... if not slower, because they're going to be passing through urban areas.

P.S. Although I should note that plenty of Americans already have purchased "Sino-EVs" ... they just drive them on property property, not on public roads.

Well, I'm not sure (even today) that you can legally drive a "Sino-EV" across the border.

Every motor vehicle in America has to meet certain (largely safety-focused, but also environmental and other) standards. AFAIK not a single cheap Chinese-made EV meets those standards.

Essentially it would be like building your own budget car and taking it out on the road. The first time a cop pulls you over and says "where are your seat belts?" you'd be screwed. He wouldn't even let you drive it home because it's not safe ... and again, there's a lot more to getting a vehicle certified to drive in America than just having seat belts.

You are absolutely correct: Trump *is* really stupid for fucking America over by chasing short-term profits (and xenophobia) over the country's long-term interests.

... trains that are actually fast?

Japan is *covered* in high-speed rail. Is it really impossible for an American government to contract an engineering company from there (or anyone else in the world) to build a train that's actually faster than a car?

(And no, California's "high speed rail" is anything but.)

I'd also point out that there's a major difference between saying crazy shit because you're so mentally ill you're about to be committed, and an otherwise sane person saying crazy shit with no (major) mental illness.

The former literally cannot know they are saying crazy shit, because they are crazy, while the latter (Trump and Adams) say crazy shit despite being sane enough to function in society (ie. sane enough to know better).

There's a key difference: in your scenario it's the guy speaking ill of the dead (Trump) who was saying batshit crazy stuff.

Here, we're talking about the batshit crazy stuff the dead guy himself said. Either way, speaking ill of the dead right after their passing is disrespectful... but again, there's a major difference between the dead guy saying crazy shit pre-death and our President saying crazy shit after.

What? Forward-deployed engineers have existed since long before Palantir. Does the OP truly think the idea of embedding engineers into the sales department only began in 2003?