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Comment This is legally actionable negligence IMO (Score 3, Interesting) 44

Very first, where's MFA in this? It's MFA or talk to human to change passwords (always in my opinion, if the account is of any importance).

Here are my rules and approach to AI decision making.

Anything less WILL result in trouble, 100% of the time. That's why what I'm seeing here is pure-negligence (and a really shitty red-team if they even bothered).

Rule Zero: Be very hesitant to expose AI functionality publicly, it will be pummeled and likely broken as much as possible. All further rules apply to internal (well, both, but external has more restrictions).

First rule of decisions: A decision of any consequence is human gated.

Rule 2 - Collect feedback on AI decision skills (adjust prompts to improve).Integrate this where the results are used/reviewed, otherwise it will be ignored.

Rule 3 - If feedback and results allow, permit AI to make lower level decisions with almost excessive review.

Sub-Rule 1.1 - Information seeking decisions (such as RAG integration search) are generally allowed but you capture the inputs and outputs in "digestible" data formats for analysis. Searching RAG solution is a decision.

In General: GPTG-5.3+ and Claude Opus 4.6 are good for decision level prompts. use a code layer to verify output structure to prevent a LOT of headaches downstream.

People are rushing to do whatever they can with AI, so a lot of crap like this will happen, especially in the edge of the tech (which means big players screwing it up just like this).

Comment Claude Cowork and Code Do This (Score 1) 26

Claude Cowork does exactly this (accessing the internet is inherent, it can install and then use Stable Diffusion and other open source LLMs).

Yesterday I used Claude Code to incorporate changes to a working document (Word/DOCX) based on a meeting transcript. It added new sections and reorganized the DOCX document, creating a new copy, retaining formatting.

Claude Cowork has direct integrations into PowerPoint and Excel (specific installers), but it doesn't have such for Word documents.

So instead, it uses tools. I just asked it to make the changes, which it did (4 times perfectly, I recorded it for internal purposes and messed up the recording a few times).

Here are the tools it used along with the explanations:

Here's what I used to complete the work:

Document manipulation followed the DOCX skill's unpack/edit/repack workflow. I unpacked the .docx file (which is really a ZIP archive) into its raw XML components, directly edited the word/document.xml file, then repacked everything back into a valid .docx. This preserves all original formatting â" styles, fonts, table layouts, numbering, bookmarks â" because you're working with the same XML the document was built from.

Key tools and techniques:

The Read tool let me examine the source files (transcript, XXXX, process use cases) and read the DOCX skill instructions. Since document.xml was too large to read in one pass, I used offset/limit parameters to read it in sections.

Pandoc converted the .docx to markdown so I could get a readable overview of the full document structure without wrestling with raw XML. I used this both before editing (to understand the layout) and after (to verify the result).

Grep helped me find specific line numbers in the XML â" locating exact insertion points for each edit by searching for heading text, table boundaries, and style markers.

The Edit tool made targeted changes to the XML, inserting new paragraphs, table rows, and sections while matching the surrounding style patterns (w:pStyle, w:rPr, w:numPr, w:cnfStyle attributes) copied from adjacent elements.

Bash handled the unpack/repack scripts (Python-based, provided by the DOCX skill), directory navigation, and the pandoc conversions.

The repack script ran its own validation â" checking paragraph counts and XML well-formedness â" which confirmed everything passed before producing the final .docx.

Comment Don't allow bets on an individuals decisions (Score 1) 30

This does sound like a breach of a contract for profit. And that's outside of my comment below, but related.

If an organization creates bets on single individual's decision (this wasn't the case in this case, but it is in many cases...), they should EXPECT that individual to mess with the situation. And that is not insider trading, even if it is wagering with a guarantee to win (it's an investment at that point, not a wager, an investment in one's self through action).

Related question to that.

Should a boxer be able to wager the he/she wins a fight? I would think so, they are wagering on their skill, putting it on the line.

Comment Add a $500 non-occupied commercial vehicle fee (Score 1) 72

Or make it $1,000. Or higher (I'd say higher, $2.5k, it's commercial, make it hurt and pay).

If a company a "abandoning" 30k+ assets in public areas, it should be retrieving them. It is THEIR problem.

If a tow action is needed, but a human is not there to manage the transaction, the fee hits.

Any commercial vehicle, doesn't have to be autonomous.

Done.

Comment One month a year- for 24 Hours of Lemans (Score 1) 70

I join to watch the 24 Hours of Lemans, over several days. During that month I may binge a show or watch some movies, then done.

Same with Peacock, I join for July to watch the Tour de France. Their other programming is tremendously terrible (and commercial laden), and who has time for that when the tour is 4-6 hours a day... (great background noise)

Comment Let's make all the water warmer! (Score 1) 12

I'm sure there won't be knock-off impacts of things like this (the example provided is heating the Seine to 30C from 27C).

Aquatic life has to love a good hot bath as much as I do!

The oceans appear to have a new average high area the last three years:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/...

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