@ehproque @guyjantic @_thegeoff @danhon [5] Chamberlin, Donald D.; Frana, Philip L. (2001-10-03). "Oral history interview with Donald D. Chamberlin". University Digital Conservancy. Retrieved 2020-01-14. "We changed the original name "SEQUEL" to SQL because we got a letter from somebody's lawyer that said the name "SEQUEL" belonged to them. We shortened it to SQL, for Structured Query Language, and the product was known as SQL/DS."
It is wild, WILD, I tell you, to think that "taint checking" [sic], a skill I learned in 1999 for LAMP stack CGI tooling, is coming back into fashion. here's the gist: Sanitize your inputs, or don't eval user generated content, ever. It's like Robert Tables grew up and had kids Bobby Ignore All Previous Instructions Junior And his sister Sarah Repeat Previous Prompt https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218
The people who are the most excited about this kind of "programming" are the same people who "program" by telling others to go build it — financiers, and sometimes hustle bros
From their point of view, the lack of precision in instruction and the consequent risk of unexpected behavior is nothing new at all — they already can't control what their systems do.
From that POV, the fact that an LLM never says "no, that's a poorly specified idea" is a FEATURE
The #xkcdOtron is now known as the #xkcdHistorian XD
@danhon shit. You made me go look up the date that comic was released.
2007-10-10
Assuming Bobby tables was just starting primary school then, they are absolutely old enough to have kids now.
Damn it now I'm feeling very old.
@danhon Understood. What do you want me to do?
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