Technology

I will say, we've been deployed on Ubuntu 18.04 for 8 years now and tracking the CVEs against our configuration watching for potential exploits that could really matter to our systems, and it wasn't until the past few months that those exploits actually started to get meaningful ability to compromise us.

What that says to me is: the LLMs are finding meaningful vulnerabilities that "the best minds" missed for years and years. And they're also generating functional patches for these vulnerabilities far faster and more easily than the patches came out in the past.

I'm not loving the changed landscape, but I have to acknowledge that LLMs are making a significant difference.

The other day I went to talk to some subject matter expert because I wanted an experienced human's knowledge and perspective on my problem. They literally just read me Reddit posts and Gemini search results to answer my questions. Even turning their laptop and being like "see?"

What a waste of everyone's time.

I suppose I should quote a part, since no one else will read the dreaded wAlL Of tEXt.

Is this short enough for you?

AI helps people find more vulnerabilities in existing code. To address those vulnerabilities, people use AI to generate patches. The resulting pull requests are then "reviewed" by AI. That is, the more AI is in the loop, the less we understand the code base. The mystical "human in the loop" often is nothing more than a rubber stamp.

So what happens when things go bump? Complex systems fail in complex ways, and debugging code is an order of magnitude harder than writing code. Debugging somebody else's code is harder still. Trying to debug large, complex, distributed systems consisting of components that are effectively opaque to your entire organization is going to be impossible.

The first line is a form of self therapy. I really like the Blade Runner line "like tears in the rain" because it brings understanding of insignificance. My thought is llms are starting to show their insignificance to benefit society; not that they can't beneficial for certain task but overall. It's just an opinion.

I'm also feeling burnt out and I barely use it. The reliance is real. But the novelty is gone.

I saw some headline talking about an upcoming interview with the world's first AI actor. But...why?

Someone has taught their dog better and better tricks. It's still a dog!

Guilty 💅

Yeah, I'll keep quoting the mantra of the 20s, "everything sucks now. You'll own nothing and be happy". I'll go back to my early 2000s cave now.