It really isn't. The best and most employable will be the ones that get another job and jump ship. The deadwood will hang on but will trash morale because they're miserable.

Of those, Google will be the hardest to replace. At least without exerting eminent domain over patents.

What's sad is that it has taken so long to reach that decision. I thought it was clear they needed to do this back before 2000. (I'm not exactly sure how long, but plausibly while I was in high school.)

They're stupid enough to have an AI agent delete their entire production database from the also vibe coded storage service that keeps the "backups" in the backed up volume (so no restore possible), AND has no concept of limiting auth tokens (all tokens are god mode) AND then deciding to continue vibe coding with the very same storage service.

It really is as bad as Bart Simpson repeatedly shocking himself on the electrified cupcake Lisa left out.

They thought instructing the AI to "make no mistakes" would prevent the problem.

But that *IS* a vibe coding problem.

The problem is bypassing the developer or trying to get the developer to not "waste time and effort" dealing with trivialities that "the AI can take care of".

That's right up there with the genius mode instruction "make no mistakes".

IIRC, that was done by one of the companies that had an AI agent delete the database.

It's still illegal. Enforcement, however, has always been a problem.

There's a reasonably good correlation between bigfoot sightings and bears being present. So don't just dismiss it as hallucinations, but consider misidentification.

Tell that to McDonalds.

You are wrong. Several reporters and columnists have been important voices in the past. But quite possibly not this decade.

Yeah, and the person who released the information first was operating in an "if I noticed this, doing only as much as I'm doing, surely attackers would also notice" mode. Possibly some patches these days are sufficiently obvious as to their correctness and also effect that they should first become public as a set of stable releases. This was a kind of special case, as CopyFail was the combination of some code doing something strange with one user not being prepared for it, and fixed the user. If there are other users that also aren't prepared, fixing them isn't going to be subtle.

How shadows and reflections move when you're 10 milies from a mostly flat surface a thousand miles across is legitimately hard to analyze for a visual system that evolved on the ground, especially if you throw in small periodic surface orientation variations. Given how complicated it is to explain rare rainbow-related phenomena like sun dogs, it would be surprising if we'd identified and explained everything that can appear when flying above the ocean.

I'm sure they're vibe coding as fast as they can!

...that government cameras really suck.

You're too cynical. Plenty of Slashdot readers are fans of Musk, and Slashdot it small enough these days that I doubt Musk would bother.