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CI, unit tests, linters, formatters, code review are imperfect but effective safety and productivity tools because they do not require a state of constant hypervigilance.

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

@caseyliss it’s a nice little touch that I just noticed when looking something up and noticed a tv show was first in the list, even though they were only in one episode. These are the types of things that make Callsheet better than the IMDb app.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116188939207308679

Equal parts "Yay!" and "Uh oh. Oh no." for this headline.

Developers: "The problem is that the faster we go, the more we get things wrong and have to fix them or do them over again, which actually makes us slower overall"

Big Tech: "I see, yes. What if... hear us out... what if you could get things wrong much, much faster?"

When the shell of an egg breaks from the inside, a new bird is hatched. When the shell breaks from the outside, someone is preparing a meal.

#iran

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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Google search doesn't work as well anymore because the results are full of LLM-generated articles? I hear about CEOs putting pressure on their teams to produce more faster because they've been told that AI will increase productivity?

it feels sad. even though I find LLMs useful sometimes, with all of the societal impacts it often feels like it isn't actually improving my life.

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