Sure, I’m not telling you how it should be, I’m telling you how it is.

The LLM just increases the damage done because it can do more damage faster before someone figures out they fucked up.

This is the last big one I remembered offhand but I know it happens a couple times a year and probably more just goes unreported.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/solarwinds123-password-intern

Why would an intern be given prod supply chain credentials, who knows. People fuck up all the time.

They shouldn’t and we know that but this is hardly the first time that story has been told even before LLMs. Usually it was blamed on “the intern” or whatever.

Are you in the US? My take away here is American healthcare is bad but we’re treating the symptom not the disease.

If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.

At first you Sandbox box it and you’re careful. Then after a while the sand box is a bit of a pain so you just run it as is. Then it asks for permission a 1000 times to do something and at first you carefully check each command but after a while you just skim them and eventually, sure you can run ‘psql *’ to debug some query on the dev instance…

It’s one of the major problems with the “full self driving” stuff as well. It’s right often enough that eventually you get complacent or your attention drifts elsewhere.

This kind of stuff happened before the LLM coding agents existed, they have just supercharged the speed and as a result increased the amount of damage that can be done before it’s noticed.

There are already a bunch of failures in place for something like this to happen. Having the prod credentials available etc etc it’s just now instead of rolling the dice every couple weeks your LLM is rolling them every 20s.

Which of why they are all Trump’s friend. They are the friend of who ever is in power and doesn’t get in the way (or helps) make the stock price larger.

If Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with a progressive they would change their tune immediately.

Corporations don’t have morals and have no qualms about being hypocritical. If they are publically traded the only language they speak is “stock go up” and “stock go down”.

I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.

I agree with their repair stance. It just feels like one of those things people will tell you they want and then never do.

Still maybe the explosion in memory prices will change the incentives and people will start holding things longer. It will be interesting to see.

A think pad t series is not really much harder to take apart than a framework. Just more screws and fewer magnets. The screen is probably an exception however.