RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116479704797697865

Nothing "went rogue". AI didn't delete the firm's database and backups. A human operator built admin automation and ran it in production without adequate testing or backups.

I'm sorry, but no: a human gave admin privileges to unverified tools and ran them in a production environment.

Own your work. You as sysadmin, developer, etc. are paid to perform a job with skill and diligence. Ultimately you are responsible for your professional work. If there was someone upstream responsible for V&V of the tool, ensuring users are trained, cautions and limitations of the tool are communicated, and confirming the tool is fit for its intended use, they bear a share of that responsibility.

If you're the manager that forced worker to use an unreliable tool on production systems without putting it through proper V&V, without effective user training, use case development, or risk assessment, you bear a share of the responsibility.

Repeating this for those in the back: AI does not launder away your job responsibilities.

Me, Gen X, talking to my millennial partner: "I need you to understand how deeply traumatized my generation is, and how it interacts with our politics and world view."

*Reaches for the Neverending Story DVD*

(Also we're all lead poisoned, and survived on hose water, ketchup-is-a-vegetable lunches and Tupac and Biggie)

GoDaddy pulled this bullshit on me once too. My personal domain, which I had registered with them a little less than 20 years before and never moved out of simple inertia, vanished one day from my account. No warning, no notice, no nothing. I contacted customer support and was told that it had been transferred to someone else (!).

After several days of ferocious arguments with their customer support, the domain quietly and mysteriously appeared back in my account. Again, no notice, no apology.

That was the kick in the pants I needed to move my truly ancient domains off GoDaddy for good

https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/

The standard for change isn’t “is my doing this going to change the world?” The standard is “is my doing this part of the shift I want to see my community make?” And if the answer is yes, I do my best

https://slrpnk.net/post/37040615

No matter how low your expectations of how bad things are in Azure, prepare to have them reset quite a bit lower: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

This isn't just neglect, it's willful abandonment of basic security and stability standards my senior and middle management. Given the number of major breakins they've had in the last few years, there's little wonder as to what's behind that.

#Microsoft #Azure