Typically when institutions fail them in some way. Lacking foundational understanding of scientific principles, science is just another authority to them. And if authority makes their life materially worse, they reject all of it in favor of gut feeling and faith. A weird kind of rationality
An old comment on the political sympathies of the military. The cabal is working hard to change things, but this is what we're starting with
Its still crazy and upsetting, but if this were a widespread, unquestioned attitude we wouldn't be hearing about about complaints and leaks to the press
Only about 25% of the officer corps shares it. Possibly 35% in the Air Force. For the overwhelming majority of the military, this is just a job and a way to pay for college/grad school. The reason they had to bring in a Hegseth is .mil as an org is (mostly) politically neutral
THAT'S what my peers in the industry are choosing to speak out on??! Out of all the tech topics to publicly protest right now, THATS what they chose?
I dont think these valuations are literal assertions of value so much as votes cast for a particular vision of the future. Whether the tech actually works is immaterial to the projects of the people who own it
this person has never been in the military
Why would you assume the Davos set gets good information? They can't find anyone to tell them chatbots aren't conscious. They recirculate the same trans moral panic stories as Ray at the Piggly Wiggly. Steve Jobs believed in homeopathy. There is no secret enclave of competence
Thought about you as I was doing my Canadian citizenship paperwork this morning. I used to think being in tech would insulate me from everything. Then tech became part of the hairball and I have no other useful skills :(
@edzitron.com Pleeeeeease do a Hater's Season ep on infosec. The industry was hollowed out by private equity already, LLMs are killing it dead. So so much to talk about how the industry is being reduced to compliance theater and how AI is structurally unsecurable
Have you read any Ed Zitron? Rather than pro or doom, he occupies an interesting "to hell with all of you" stance
Or! If implementation of a tech requires an ever escalating complex chain of questionably secure scaffolding, implemented at great cost and uncertain reliability. . .maybe we could just not use that tech sometimes.
if there were natsec implications here (there are not) the correct response would be to limit exposure to Anthropic, not some putative AI export control nonsense.
As a former China analysts, seeing cyber guys on LinkedIn pull out natsec takes about chatbots is wrecking my blood pressure.
I met him when I worked there and he came through the SOC. He knows he's a feudal lord, and seems to take the responsibility seriously. Unclear on if this is good or bad
I'm not mad! Don't tell the CIA I got mad
Arrogance and stupidity are expressions of cognitive biases we're all vulnerable to, rather than character flaws or not having good info. Which is why none of us should be running this thing besides malware reversers (because it's basically malware lol)
If your tool requires you to be smart to run it safely, you're already breached. There's not a sec person out there who hasn't accidentally triggered malware on their own machine. Lack of domain expertise prevents you from contextualizing risk, even if someone tells you what the risks are
My VA has been cutting services since he got elected. Tech layoffs mean it's my only healthcare for the past 9 months. Kind of feels like we're in the last days of rome and the visigoths are sending meaningful llooks
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I worked for a PE owned security vendor who laid off their entire internal security department for "efficiency." I checked back 6 mo later and saw no job listings posted. I wonder what they're telling their auditors?
For some devs, this is less a factual question and more social signaling - more technical than thou sort of thing. I believe the people saying 1 in 5 are crap probably have the right answer.
Seriously - some of the nicest, most talented, service oriented people in the security industry. Then they all got ran out by the CEOs toxic friends and a rotating cast of VPs brought in to fix things on an 18 month cycle. They could have had sustainable growth forever by just doing nothing
I worked for an antivirus company: we were on the verge of going public until the CEO with really bad taste in friends and untreated ADHD ran it into the ground with an eventual private equity death. Nice guy.
Sales Eng building their own demo? Sure, best wishes. UX designer building a storefront handling credit card data? Not in a million years. Scalability, security, modularity - these are all things being thrown out the window right now, to the long term detriment of our digital ecosystem
Gary's using LLMs for projects requiring deterministic output?? I've been hearing stories of Copilot in Excel poisoning months worth of analysis with single, tough to find hallucinations. Agree with you that devops processes are broken, but this is the wrong answer to the right question
They're lying. That compiler people talk about didn't actually work. and pro devs tend to not like it because it dramatically increases boring work like validation and decreases work they enjoy like writing code. Notice that most of what you read on AI comes from CEOs or marketing people
omg they're raising the price for janky garbage above what the average person can pay!
Weird. Maybe if they laid off more engineers, they'd be too efficient to have security vulns.
Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way
Lol. LMAO. #openclaw #ai
