I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

A phrase I've been repeating a lot on vendor calls, regarding prevention vs. detection:

I want to win; I don't just want to know why we lost.

Powerful words from former CISA director Jen Easterly in a post on LinkedIn, warning of the "targeting and removal of nonpartisan public servants and the normalization of loyalty oaths."

"If we — who aim to protect critical systems — can’t defend the humans who manage and maintain them, what exactly are we securing?"

Full read: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-really-securing-jen-easterly-auyae