> Do not be afraid to lose business from companies that are squeamish about paying you - in fact actively avoid such companies.

My boss said that the ones who have negotiated the best deals are the ones that are late paying, complain about just about every bill and will write angry letters when my boss index adjust pricing.

He said it taught him to never offer a really good deal for a regular customer (ie where the upside isn't very obvious).

Works fine for me recommending interesting educational and edutainment content.

I'm quite aggressively removing videos I don't like from my watch history, or flag "don't recommend" channels I know won't be for me. If I'm not careful it'll recommend crap for a while.

> Claude was used to find the bug in the first place though. That CVE write-up happened because of Claude

Do you have a link to that? A rather important piece of context.

Wasn't trying to downplay this submission the way, the main point still stands:

But finding a bug and exploiting it are very different things. Exploit development requires understanding OS internals, crafting ROP chains, managing memory layouts, debugging crashes, and adapting when things go wrong. This has long been considered the frontier that only humans can cross.

Each new AI capability is usually met with “AI can do Y, but only humans can do X.” Well, for X = exploit development, that line just moved.

Key point is that Claude did not find the bug it exploits. It was given the CVE writeup[1] and was asked to write a program that could exploit the bug.

That said, given how things are I wouldn't be surprised if you could let Claude or similar have a go at the source code of the kernel or core services, armed with some VMs for the try-fail iteration, and get it pumping out CVEs.

If not now, then surely not in a too distant future.

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:08...

I just took some basic numerical courses at uni, but every time we discretized a problem with the aim to implement it on a computer, we had to show what the discretization error would lead to, eg numerical dispersion[1] etc, and do stability analysis and such, eg ensure CFL[2] condition held.

So I guess one might want to do a similar exercise to deriving numerical dispersion for example in order to see just how discretizing the diffusion process affects it and the relation to optimal control theory.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_dispersion

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courant%E2%80%93Friedrichs%E2%...

The text that follows does take on a new meaning though, for those that know linear algebra:

If the mere sight of the above is like a punch in the face for you, don't worry.

Almost makes me wonder if it was intentional.