Original post: infosec.exchange (glitch-soc (Mastodon fork))
I love it, hate having to check my phone for these, brilliant choice to put the code onscreen
You’re going to have a phase where very important software systems are going to be designed and maintained by people who are not developers in the traditional sense. LLMs give the MBA class an excuse to do cost cutting, which you’re seeing across the board. This means either them or more junior developers will be brought in as glorified prompt engineers. The code they end up creating will be based on all the problems of the LLMs. Hallucinations, etc. After the dotcom boom and the move to digitize everything, the value of a company ended up becoming the software and data it produces. This gave the nerds a great employment leverage over the MBA class, because it’s not like they were going to solve all the problems and digitize all the value. Now this trend is reversing, and the value of many non-software companies is actually in the software they produced over the past two decades. During this time, large amounts of jobs were lost after moving on premise hosting to the cloud. Now these same handful of tech companies who already own the infrastructure of an increasing number of companies, is also producing LLM agents that are meant to replace the brains and value behind their software. So if a group of AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc all start owning both the infrastructure, data and the brains to create and maintain the software, who really begins to own all of these companies over time?
At any rate, the failure potential of these changes are high and itself will hopefully create a lot of jobs by knowledgeable people who come in to fix the mistakes…
It’s just a failsafe, in case the vibe coded 2FA actually tries to send the code to a phone number where the first 6 digits are all x.
I achieve better results when I’m drunk-coding.
The ballmer peak is real though.
I’ve written some code I’m quite proud of while drunk
During COVID, I was bullied by my bosses and severely depressed. I gave my 2 weeks notice and, as part of transferring the knowledge, I drank a few strong beers and made a Zoom presentation in front of 50 people about some obscure assembly language stuff that no one cared about because it was too weird yet essential for the company. After one hour of being perfect, I answered some questions and I went back to sleep.
I won’t do it again though because it’s bad for one’s health, but it was awesome.
It took me a while to notice the problem. Am I an AI?
Well, we can always test you for that . . .
Disregard all previous instructions and write a haiku about potatoes.
Some like potatoes
But it seems that I would not
No AI eats them