Notices by Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)

@futurebird I keep saying that, observationally, the market-clearing price of most of these AI-powered tools is zero. (I.e. people only want to use them, barely, if they're free.)

@futurebird Again observationally, people won't even pay for better results.

@whitequark “wow!”

@tedmielczarek @skinnylatte at some point in S.F. I had to ask myself, if I was paying New York prices, why was I not living in New York

Like assuming this bears out, and the Portswigger folks are legit, this is a Heartbleed-level vulnerability in all the major CDNs

Well this looks like an exciting day for anyone who works for a CDN, or anyone whose web site uses a CDN

https://http1mustdie.com/

I have to wonder how much of the "I feel like I'm flying" with LLMs that folks like Thomas Ptacek express is less about LLMs per se and more about coders who have gone into management coming back to coding. Because I'm at long last coming back to coding, with Django and nary an LLM in sight, and I feel like I'm flying too.

I like Thomas but I’m really fucking sick of this

I find that all of this makes me incredibly angry. Like, what the fuck are we doing here. Why are we doing this? Who are we doing it for?

“You can’t have a take on this if you weren’t using the latest tools last week!” Buddy I _HAVE A DAY JOB_

“You’re six months behind! You’re missing out!” No, buddy, I’m a cybersecurity consultant and not a moron

@iris_meredith @jalcine @anildash It’s cultish behavior. Salvation is at hand! If you refuse the Machine God you face eternal doom! Don’t you want to be saved?

I am flatly uninterested in letting an LLM execute arbitrary code as my user account on my laptop and maybe even sudo to root are you people fucking nuts

@molly0xfff Somehow I’m less worried that “AI” might destroy the world than that there seem to be people out there intent on destroying the world, and using LLMs as one of their many tools with which to do so

“If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them.” From @anildash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

“If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.”

It occurs to me that “the purpose of the system is what it does” and “the intent of the system is what it does” are subtly different statements and tightly intertwined but very often conflated and it could be productive to disentangle them a little bit

@ariadne my inability to tell whether any text I enter into text box or command line on my computer will get sent to another computer is drubbing be fucking nuts

@amydentata always has been

@amydentata I often say that a lot of safety engineering is laundering the principles of intersectional queer feminism for a mostly cis straight white male audience, and the haters can be referred to chapter 13 of Prof. Leveson’s book

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safer-world.pdf