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Seán FobbeWe somehow went from "script kiddies are bad" to giving any random office worker the power to launch hundreds of programs that will hammer unknown servers across the web to make mediocre power point presentations.
Not to mention the massive usage spikes that are now hitting public software and data repositories.
What a world.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.
Slaves would be good though.
And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.
No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.
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A metaphor on agentic AI and what not to do:
- Summon a demon that's meant to be helpful
- Accept everything that happens from then on, including the responsibilities and getting the blame for what can happen
- Give the demon autonomy to do whatever it wants to fulfill its own desires and wishes first and foremost
- Don't isolate it to any dedicated cage where it can only see what's actually needed to help out, and nothing else
- Witness the demon taking a weird route and acting maliciously, despite hearing a suggestion "Please, don't be evil"
- Keep on using it
Cassandra is only carbon nowAnother way of putting it: ChatGPT is an absolutely amazing fuzzer for human systems. It just spams humans with so many plausible-sounding scraps of nonsense that a ChatGPT user *will* find places where meaning doesn't matter and exploit them.
If you think of LLMs as a spam generation technology, this is unsurprising, but it flies in the face of how tech companies tell us to think about them.
Angie
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130
I'm pretty disappointed in this direction.
I switched to Linux (kubuntu up until now) to escape forced integration with "AI," but also any other service used to manage me as a customer. I don't want to be a "customer," I want to be a person using a tool to do what I need to do, quickly and efficiently.
Primarily, Linux offers me a way to keep my tools as tools. It allows me to use my computer with fewer distractions, lets me customize to the best of my ability. I have not had to worry whether it is trying to pump me for data or cash, or some other grift.
What worries me most is the note that people working on Ubuntu are using AI for code. Directly stated in the forum post. It is being explicitly encouraged, though not required. I trust the system less simply knowing that to be the case.
I'm not sure what to do, yet. I'm just so tired of having this junk pushed on me.
The future of AI in Ubuntu
As 2026 progresses, LLM-based tools are becoming more and more ubiquitous. Adoption across the tech industry has been mixed, both in terms of which projects are embracing “AI” technologies, and in how companies are structuring their adoption. As a result, I’m frequently asked about what Canonical and Ubuntu will do (or not) to incorporate AI. In this post I’ll detail how AI will play a part in both Canonical and Ubuntu’s future, my framework for classifying AI features in the OS, and how Canoni...
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Today, the Surveillance Accountability Act was introduced. It requires warrants based on probable cause for all government surveillance and data access.
You can read more about it here: https://www.surveillanceaccountability.com/