Ugh. If this makes my Linux systems less stable, I don’t even know what the fuck I’m going to do. I won’t go back to Windows, I’m not buying Macs (which have their own software problems anyway), and my hardware probably won’t work with any BSD variant.

What we want is software that behaves predictably. Since LLMs don’t do that, we don’t want them or their “agents.”

For fuck’s sake.

We’re sure they’re absolutely PR stunts and bullshit.

An LLM does nothing without being prompted. An LLM only has access to the tools you give it via whatever harness you’re interacting with it through. An LLM in an actual sandbox has zero chance to hack anything, especially if it’s properly air-gapped, as any responsible person would do with technology they actually think is dangerously powerful.

If their LLMs are behaving badly, that’s because their prompts are poorly written, their harnesses are vibe-coded garbage, and their “sandboxes” aren’t real sandboxes.

AI is going to happen.

Oh? So there are hard numbers showing a positive ROI now?

“AI, please find a way out of this ‘sandboxed’ environment that isn’t actually segmented from the internet, and hack several of our competitors. Here are a bunch of tools you can use for it.”

“Okay.”

“OMG LOOK GUYS! Our AI is so amazing and scary and cool it broke out of our sandbox and hacked our competitors!”

“Hi everyone, welcome to my talk on fainting from anxiety, as triggered by… this… this… uuuuuuuhhhgg…” [Thud]

I have an autographed original drawing. Unfortunately, it’s a drawing of the Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Yeah… I don’t have that on display in my house anymore.

Clever! And when sanity starts reasserting itself at your company, you can claim you’re focusing on saving the company money by reducing your token usage and just… make fewer animal slop websites.

Mo Bitar had a bit of advice that I think is applicable here: Lie. Claim to be an extreme 10x vibe whatever. Put “AI enablement” (whatever the fuck that means) in your LinkedIn profile. And wherever you get hired, commit to using enormous amounts of tokens as they require.

Then just… write code. Oh, definitely use the LLMs, too, but not for anything important. Set them to work writing BASH scripts or something. Get them burning through tokens to summarize all the corporate documentation you can find. Have agents creating agents to test the output of other agents and report to more agents on what the agents are doing. Meanwhile, do real work. Make sure that for every PR, you have the AI do one thing on it, to give it that code-slop shine.

Sucks that this is where we’re at, but it is what it is.

I’m sorry that happened to you. I’ve also seen it happen to a lot of very good engineers I’ve known over the years. It’s truly insane. I know some people who’ve had to dip into their 401k accounts early just to keep their heads above water, and it’s going to be an economy-wide disaster soon.

Software engineer, here. Yep, the burnout is real. I consider myself fortunate, however; with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately to cut back on token usage.

I think that’s pretty much where the entire industry will go soon.

This will lead to even more brain drain from Florida. Good luck with your absolutely fucked economy, asshats.

And given that this garbage isn’t profitable and has no hope of becoming profitable, he’s soon to be the world’s first former trillionaire.

A few months ago, I would have said that taking the island would be relatively easy, given the size and strength of the US military, but keeping it would be the hard part.

Now I don’t know if we could even take it. These fucking assholes have hollowed out our military.

When did tweeting military plans get normalized?

It’s not a theory. A theory would have some evidence or reasoning behind it, even with the colloquial version of the word.

No, what’s actually happening is a propaganda campaign. A really obvious one. And the same rich people proposing this “theory” are the ones directly and intentionally funding it.

Out of curiosity, is his work on any of the “frontier” models? Or is he developing the small, open-weight models you can run on sufficiently beefy personal systems? There’s a world of difference there in terms of ethics.

I work with a few AI engineers myself, and I don’t think I know anyone who hates companies like OpenAI and Anthropic more than they do.

Dude… Your kid’s a supervillain.

(I joke, but still… AI? Wish it was something less destructive.)

I’m just holding out hope that my company still has enough sanity left to keep from firing the team responsible for its (incredibly busy, active, and above all publicly-facing) developer portal in favor of having a vibe-coder destroy maintain it. At least long enough for the AI bubble to finally burst.

That I still have one. I’m a software developer, and my entire industry has lost its mind.