This NPR article opens with a banger of a line:
In the past few months, AI models have gone from producing hallucinations to becoming effective at finding security flaws in software, according to developers who maintain widely used cyber infrastructure.
The things still fucking hallucinate, it's not a feature that's separable from the model.
Work wants to add that new whiz-bang agentic AI into a scheduling service that I have been tasked with building, but in the dumbest way possible kind of similar to the Jet's text-a-pizza-order thing that worked like shit. I need to find an entirely new profession, everyone in software now is fucking deranged.
Q: what do you call a tool that works 90% of the time? A: broken
Friend texted me this one. Reader's Digest of course was AI slop before AI took off.
:surprised-pikachu:
Even the most dysfunctional team would have spent time developing some kind of standard here from my (admittedly limited) experience.
My experience has been vastly different. Prior to LLMs I have seen all sorts of horrors of this sort and others writ large across many codebases. It's so awesome that LLMs offer the ability to make the same sorts of code but at a much faster speed. In times past it used to take devs years to build up the kind of tech debt that LLMs can give you in days.
That this comes from the Saudi Royal Family is especially rich because of the amount of plain-ol' sycophancy around Neom.
"I did the AI that people largely hate, but the next guy, HE'S the real AI CEO. Just remember him, not me, the guy who did the stuff."
Is it going to be a bunch of ArmV8 cores shoved into the same package? Probably going to be a bunch of ArmV8 cores shoved into the same package. You know, for AI.
Chicago always wanted a 9/11 of its own.
"Congratulations guys, we did it. Job well done. You're all fired."
Isn't a more perfect humanity a Bond villain trope?