"They charge me, per hour, as much as my attorney."
What a super relatable comment. But unsurprising.
"And I'll bet they're not carrying half-a-million in college debt from Columbia Law."
I'll bet your "attorney" isn't either. How can such a narcissist hire an attorney that hasn't paid off his school debt yet? Can't afford any more than plumber's pay?
Why blame any of that? Why not blame the real culprits? Or do you not like accountability?
What did they do with it?
"The phone has received the little-known PTCRB certification, a first step toward being certified to work on major networks and be issued with IMEI numbers."
Why would anyone believe this? The Trump administration does certifications, why would any actual work be done for a fraud?
"I was always told that running random code that you don't know what it does is a bad idea."
And yet every user of computing does this continuously. Virtual no one knows what any of the code they run actually does.
"Normal code would require a thorough audit to integrate."
Says who? I would say very little is audited, especially with CICD which is specifically designed to NOT do that.
"The AI stuff is unauditable."
The problem with AI isn't the code, it's the weights.
"It sounds like Cisco is trying to alleviate these unknowns."
It does not, but yes it sounds insufficient of not entirely worthless.
"Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI models"
No, do not. AI models are entirely deterministic computer applications. This more anthropomorphizing nonsense.
"This may put organizations at risk of using models with unknown biases, vulnerabilities or manipulations and make it more difficult to resolve any incidents that arise from these risks."
Utterly false. There is nothing about knowing what the tool alleges to tell you that helps solve any problem and AI models are already opaque, making users inherently vulnerable in all the ways that are alleged here.
'Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models,"'
Provided that the AI models targeted are open source themselves.
More bullshit propaganda.
Cut the pay for the doers, redirect the pay to executive staff.
"People diss agile today because they don't remember how it was before Agile, and how teams that actually succeeded kinda sorta did something like Agile. "
No and no. Real software development requires design. Agile is a race to accumulate band-aids. Never time to fix anything, only time to cover garbage up.
"Agile wasn't adopted by software companies because it was some new religion."
Even though it was a new religion. Agile targets managers, it defines doers as literally all the same and interchangeable, then creates worthless metrics that managers can use for performance claims. Agile is adopted because of weak managers, just like religion is adopted by weak minds.
"That being said, successful companies cheat in Agile too."
Agile is cheating, they are synonymous. No design, ground up approach, worthless metrics, no long term values, no team development.
"What's going to replace Agile is some methodology where the new AI tools are going to interconnect to make the team much more productive."
Agile is shitty management, not shitty product development. Agile precludes good product development, but tools do not fix that, real project management does.
"Sounds like an idea some MBA came up with to "save money"."
A bean counter version of Agile.
"...will remain a thing in teams and "projects" where it fits and makes sense"
Web page development.
"Those are scenarios with experienced teams booked on a well-seasoned and under control stack with which every team-member has solid experience to basically take on any task in the scope of the project."
Projects that have no need for specific experience or specialization, where everyone does the same thing. Web page development.
"Agile software development is the _solution_ to the problem of clients not knowing what they want and developing a piece of software that isn't military, medical, space, aeronautic, nuclear, mission-critical embedded or some other hardcore stuff. "
Web page development.
"This is why agile software development is most often used in web development and generic user-facing software for vertical markets. "
Correct, web page development.
"And no, it's not at an "end" and no, it's not "dead"."
It will be the first to be replaced with AI as it is the most trivial. Web page development is well down the path of being automated. Bye Agile.
"Agility or Agile Software Development is still alive an well for anyone actually aware what those terms really mean. See the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development [agilemanifesto.org] for further details."
No thank you. I vomited the first time.
"Congratiulations, you are now ahead of 99% of the buzzword crowd. You're welcome."
Don't hire this guy. You're welcome.
and no doubt it was waterfall that was to blame. Super important to get that detail in there.
$3M for an AUDIT but management couldn't be to blame, right?
How great is it that Trump requires Apple to do business with Intel, the spin will be delightful.
Please, please, please let it be Apple's main processors. A hysterical black eye to Intel and a kick in the balls to Apple fanboys. Win win!
Let's hear from the "rosetta doesn't do emulation" crowd!
That is not even the problem. Scarcity is artificial and could disappear tomorrow, that's the problem. The industry aligns with the interests of very few extremely rich people, tape drives don't solve that.
"Then we'll have an oversupply of components instead of a shortage."
No, there isn't a free market. Corporate interests want ALL of supply so you don't get any. That changes only when corporations say it changes, and specifically when VC funding dictates those changes. You assume brainpower not demonstrated to exist, you compete against privilege and you are guaranteed to lose.
"The amount of spend is ludicrous and unrealistic for future needs"
Because billionaires compete to own the future without knowledge or understanding of what the future is. They're trying to buy up all supply on speculation. Musk rents out capacity he bought on speculation, what matters is that he owns the capacity not that he uses it.
One breakthrough on AI computing requirements could make everything known today obsolete, but we can take for granted that billionaires will know that before anyone else. It's a rigged game. Billionaires will own ALL computing power yet demand that the public pay for all the electrical infrastructure necessary to power it. We share the costs and they make the profits. The Sam Walton way.
My server got compromised last week by this, Slashdot is quite far behind.
There's two new exploits in the Copy Fail class that do privilege escalation everyone should be worried about on shared servers. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo) and Dirty Frag (https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag)
I am rather disappointed that Ubuntu sat on these LPEs for a month without releasing a fix.
Drilling for oil is boring.
