Is he LinkedIn® Verified™?

This is hacking. Just because it’s a trivial attack vector that’s easy to protect against doesn’t mean it isn’t.

Their words matter. If they wanted to say that, then they should have said that. They didn’t say that. They said private Minecraft servers are IP infringement despite Microsoft explicitly allowing them. They’re fools.

NOOOOOOO!!! This is a website! It has text prior to the PDF, just put the damn article there! The website clearly already supports HTML, otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing anything!

(But yes, I still like those formats, I just think it should be a no brainer for a website to actually have it’s contents as HTML.)

it’s already got a paragraph of text, so clearly they can put text on their sites. PDFs are ass. I do not need to print this. Even then, HTML can be printed.

Like imagine if the rest of this Lemmy comment was in a PDF… Why the fuck would I do that? That’s what this article feels like.

Why in the FUCK is this a PDF?

Jesus fucking Christ, what a read. It really was the wild west days back then, huh? Sony was out there just putting straight up malware on audio CDs.

How can a company even legally give you a “license to view something” like that without advertising it as "until we randomly decide to take it down. It shouldn’t be legal. They should have to say what the contract is for all the things they sell licenses for.

Glad I don’t work with you.

The only real person I’ve ever really heard talk about Erlang was the developer of Sonic Pi. Sonic Pi is a live coding music program, so naturally it has a lot of parallel code. I think it was on the se-radio podcast where I heard it (at least pre pandemic if you need help finding the episode, haven’t listened in years). Basically he said he wished he’d used it because it makes what he needed to do very easy, which is adding and removing live music loops and modifying them.

How goofy do you have to be to interpret someone as asking for some advice as not wanting to succeed?

Honestly, I’d sit down with the product folk(s) and see what their thoughts are. As devs, we generally decide how moreso than what. Ask what some pain points are.

My gut feeling when I hear about an AI contractor who makes a vibe coded executive report is pretty abysmal. It feels very snake oil salesman, but I think a lot of contractors*(like the subject matter expert types you bring in, not “non FTE” contractors)* are sort of like that just out of necessity. They need to market themselves as being useful moreso than actually being useful.

But that’s pretty pessimistic. I wouldn’t tell your coworkers that (unless they also seem to have the same impression lol). Executive reports are useful for marketing. Does your business need to market itself? Sort of the inverse snake oil salesman maneuver lol. I’ll give an example,

My company does some cyber security stuff. Along with the product that provides a way to monitor, we offer a team that monitors as well. One issue brought up at our last quarterly planning was that many clients have difficulty understanding the value of our product. An example was that one person said “well y’all aren’t sending us any alerts, the last folks sent us a lot. What are you even doing?” Well, it turns out the answer is that we filter many false negatives out so they don’t even end up in any sort of review queue. But they don’t see that, they just see queues with little to nothing. So a goal was to get a nice executive report dashboard that showed this information in a way that’s easy to understand. That way if some, perhaps aloof, executive gets the idea that “we don’t get any alerts to review,” they’ll also have some tool that very easily shows them “of X alerts fired, Y% were deemed false positives by our team, Z remaining went into the queue.”

Now, none of that is AI necessarily, but it’s also something that I as a dev would never really think of. At least where I have worked. I don’t work very closely with customers, and when I do they are often “internal customers” who I can be more informal with.

I’ll just second what multiple others have said as a footnote, but do try to be aware of costs. Tracking AI costs should be something you try to do early. Like others have said, AI is heavily subsidized by investors right now. That’s just the way out economy works. People get an idea, build it, woo investors, and then focus on growth instead of profitability. As long as they can convince investors, they don’t need to be profitable. Once they can’t convince more, they have to look into an IPO and/or becoming profitable. That’s basically where we are now. I think I seen the phrase “tokenpocalypse” used.

Who knows, maybe two years from now we’ll look at this AI craze the way we look at the NFT craze from a few years ago.

Congrats on the promotion though. Trust your instincts. Be honest. I think even being candid about your reservations with AI is wise.

Rich person after making a thing: This thing is super dangerous and nobody else should be allowed to make it. However, I can be trusted to use it, but nobody else should ever be allowed to make this dangerous thing.

Missed that it was two different people at first.

They don’t need impossible requirements to do that.

How do you think they got the name double dongle? 😏

the tortilla and the baked potato are similar in that they’re just empty vessels waiting to be filled

Just like me fr fr

Nope, just making sure you understand that literal Nazis do, in fact, exist today. If you weren’t posting rhetorical questions that implied you didn’t believe they don’t, then I wouldn’t have shared links with you to help you understand they do.

Microsoft talked with the dev of AppGet to make winget, but refused to hire him.

Probably just copying job reqs and not thinking. 10 years experience as a dev. 10 years with tool X. Copy, paste, change tool to Claude. Done.