during regular working hours.

And generally after a couple cups of coffee, and before 4, and not during lunch, and not on Fridays.

Science club!

Always Sunny memes are perfect for modern international politics.

And I guess we’re maybe all going to die because we keep letting idiots lead our countries.

I would get politically active to try to help, but that feels like Charlie work.

The transition to an AI-focused business world is proving to be far more challenging than initially anticipated.

No shit, Sherlock.

Plus the halucination risk.

Yes.

Well… Twice now, I guess.

it’s important to be aware of future potential issues,

New code tends to have flaws.

I agree that there’s no strong reason to expect that the current new implement has a serious flaw. But if I was still using Gmail, I would turn the new feature off.

Anything that can be exploited in a software stack is a higher risk when exposed to the risk cesspool of modern email.

So in summary: chance that this new feature is an injection risk: low.

Risk of harm if there’s any security flaws in it: high.

I don’t think this is a reason to leave Gmail.

I agree. I left Gmail long ago for other reasons.

Mainly that I’ve seen nothing in the terms of sevice that says they won’t sell what they know about me to employers to help employers low-ball me during a salary negotiation.

Nothing did so far.

You have to admit, Visual Basic 3.0 was some cool shit, though, right?

I’ll admit it didn’t replace us, and it’s gone now. But that shit was still cool.

We might have vastly different definitions what is a senior then

I’m referring to the usual definition for the job title, “Senior Developer”. It’s also a pretty good bare minimum skill definition needed to not constantly make costly mistakes.

or you’re peaking at the Donner-Kebab curve.

I didn’t set the industry wide definition, I am using it.

If you’re angry with the lack of titles that reflect real seniority, join a union, or start one!

Which is already happening for some companies.

Yes. We’re just getting there. Three years ago, there wasn’t much hiring of junior developers, and it takes about three years for a junior to grow into a senior.

It also takes 3-5 years for stupid code choices to hurt in ways that affect a businesses bottom line.

These two factors should boil over each-other nicely in the near future.

That is the plan. But eventually they will start dying to the same buggy hospital code that the rest of us use, or whatever other issue.

There’s a billionaire fantasy that they can afford to buy artisinal everything, and not get poisoned by the results of their own stupid callousness.

I don’t believe it. I do believe they will try, for awhile.

I don’t have the insight to say for sure why (though I have some guesses),

In the USA, there’s a tax break for research teams expiring this year. Supposedly it made software develoent team salaries fully tax deductable.

In the USA, I suspect this is the real motive for using the AI hype train to justify layoffs.

I’m willing to admit “Most CEOs are stupid” also has merit, of course.

Right now they are. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

We do. Experienced programmers who have been promised we’re about to be obsolete several times, now. For many of us, this isn’t our first rodeo.

As an expert in computers, there’s two things I can guarantee about the future of computers:

1. Computers will just keep getting smarter.
2. After decades of getting smarter, computers remain deeply stupid in ways that non-experts cannot imagine. However dumb you think your computer might be, I promise it’s somehow significantly dumber than that.

Was there really a massive exodus? If so, where to?

Investors understand what it looks like when the early adopters have left, and the early adopters have left Reddit.

Some came to Lemmy. Many were already on Discord.

So true. In Final Fantasy 8, the amount of Cura my mage had pulled out of the world was probably enough to power an entire hospital for a year.

I felt a bit weird about that. Seemed like there should be a Cura donation truck or something.

Yes. That’s why cats get along well with various magical kin. The cat learns their true name, but has the decency never to speak it.

Agreed. Architecturally, there’s no reason to have a prompt injection risk, of any kind, here.

But, that was true about Log4J, as well - until we learned otherwise.

I tend toward extra caution in this modern era of libraries stacked on libraries.

It’s seen tech talks by Twitch’s engineering team. Some of those folks are scary smart.

Not that it takes that much cleverness to avoid using CloudFlare, of course.

But might be related. Twitch had some clever fallbacks and work-arounds for slow Internet, in that tech talk.

I wonder if the patriotism was the closest they could safely signal “agnostic” (in a public ad). It seems unusual that “God” didn’t make the list, for the time.