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spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly

through the power of talking to each other like adults, we somehow solve problems

you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for

Todoist has a feature that allows you to convert filters on your tasks from natural language into their in-house filtering language

it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because programming is designing and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this seriously

Or, as Bruce Schneier puts it: "Anyone can design a security system that you yourself can't think of a way of breaking. That doesn't mean it works, it just means that it works against people stupider than you."

the Solarwinds attack relied on defects in the SAML authentication system that Microsoft's own senior security staff had identified and repeatedly warned management about

Every artist I know struggles to realize what they imagine. It is through that struggle that we create. If you remove the struggle and simply wish a paragraph or image into existence, you have decided to outsource interpretation. The concept of interpretation is unique for each of us. It comes from our own selective, critical understanding of the world and how we fit into it. When you use these generative AI products, you condemn your own ability to interpret.

It should feel like computers are helping us.

It’s not an animation without an animator. It’s not a painting without a painter. It’s not a novel without a novelist. Nor is it music without a musician.

But what about people who live in the Uncanny Valley? Well, they’re in luck. Enter Image Playground. Image Playground will create images based on photos in your library and prompt you to provide such as “my mom in a cape and costume but remove her soul” or “my friend in front of a birthday cake but remove her soul.” Anything as long as the soul is removed from a person.

The more Elgan defended the system, the more Zakas became convinced she was hiding something.

They offered Zakas not only conspiratorial ideas but also the promise of a community that extended far beyond the loneliness of her house

The reality is Trump lost,” she eventually concluded. “I did a complete 180. Our elections are more accurate and secure than ever before in American history.”

He’s the archetypal Rot-Com CEO — an unqualified lobbyist pretending to be a technologist and abusing anyone he needs to in the pursuit of growth.

To have a better world — one with more interesting things, and where society doesn't constantly feel at odds with technology — tech companies must shed their growth addiction

This belief — that exponential growth is not just a reasonable expectation, but a requirement — is central to the core rot in the tech industry, and as these rapacious demands run into reality, the Rot-Com bubble has begun to deflate

In the coming years, engineering teams will become more productive, develop higher quality systems, and shorten software release lifecycles as AI assistants move from novelty to necessity across the entire software industry.