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“There is no right to not hear things that make us uncomfortable, even very uncomfortable … there is a difference between feeling uncomfortable and feeling unsafe, and nothing [in] that speech would have made anyone feel unsafe," Sheryn Omeri KC
Mitchell HashimotoI strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).
It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.
The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.
We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.
Being mean is pretty average.
KeenanHave we tried calling it “Silly Con Valley”?
MetacurityI love that the Australian Signals Directorate produced an informative video that spells out the findings of its cyber threat report released today.
Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25
This is "Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25" by ASD Gov AU on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Taggart 
As I dive deeper into these language model exploits, it is very funny to this English major to see a lot of "attacks" which are tantamount to creative writing. Who knew synonyms were a TTP?
Drew KadelMy daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
John TimaeusServer certificates, or SANS certificates?
Rory D.@pluralistic "But Google Search was so goddamned magic – before they cynically destroyed it [...] The collapse of Google into a giant pile of shit is like giving every web user a traumatic brain injury."
I sometimes wonder if the reason many people are so amazed by AI is because they forgot how drop-dead good Google search used to be. And it's only been a few years since it was well and truly enshittified.