Please tell me how ads help science research or why should I care about space exploration or LLMs that threaten me and hundreds of thousands of other peoples jobs?
I prefer to maintain my code, tailored for my need, than maintaining a massive library that has support for every authentication method there is, while trying to be as generic as possible and fit every business.
I don’t, nor I want to. If I’m forced to train my replacement by using these tools, I might as well enjoy the time it takes the agent to do work by doing something I like and enjoy in the meantime.
When I was working in a small company (3-4 devs), we used to build stuff that clients needed. We built billing systems, JS widgets (back when widgets were a thing), analytics, and full on CRM. As long as it helped our customers. We ran all this on VPSs.
When I joined big tech, I understood that most of work is going around and “proposing” solutions or “solving inter team blockers”. People who did the actual job, got very little recognition. People who did peacocking were promoted.
At that time I realized how fucked up corporate is.
"The fun part was never lifting weight. The fun was in being buffed with a 6-pack and picking up women. The fun is in bullying those who are weaker than me. I never liked going to the gym and lifting weights. What I actually love is the result of the lifting, but I never wanted to do the hard work".
Not saying this is a 1:1 parallel, or that writing is what makes you a good coder, but I do wonder - if you remove the entire process of making something, what is left there? Sure, people keep arguing that architecting or "managing" AI agents is the actual moat, but is this really? If you do not participate in the craft itself, how would you get better?
I mean, I have amazing ideas for wooded furniture I'd like to build. I doubt that if you give me an LLM connected to a router that I would be able to build something by "architecture, review, push back, and argue". I simply lack the knowledge to make something out of wood. And the only way to get this knowledge is to go and make something and not "architect, review, push back, and argue".
You need to use full isolated VM with its own kernel. But then again, I've read somewhere that this malware is also trying to escape the VM isolation as well...
Yeah, I agree, but then you are at the mercy of whatever vulnerability is found in the current version(s). It just feels like a lose-lose situation no matter what you do.
I’m honestly at a point where I’m afraid to update any of my project’s dependencies, and I’m also afraid to run the locally without some locked down VM
The US is not winning anything. This is not a fucking war. The only thing that this “AI race” is winning is a speedrun to the destruction of any meaning humans had as well as the massive build of data center and absurd amount of water consumptions to cool them off.
If only people would stop thinking in terms of who is winning, jeez.
So Google will kill it in a year or two when the AI hype will be over, and the average consumer won’t care about AI showed into their face. But hey, at least they created more e-waste.
For starters, if I'm a "house builder" by trade, then yeah, I am going to build the house myself. Otherwise, why should the client pay me, and not the guy I'm subcontracting?
Secondly, there is no such thing as a "house builder" profession. It consists of a lot of different trades people, some of them having legal power to sign off your house build (for example an electrician). Now, we could try to push for something similar in software engineering, and say require you to have an "authentication engineering certificate" in order to handle code related to auth, and only a person holding the certificate can allow such code for production use. But I'm pretty sure all the vibe coders and tech bros will cry how unfair and bureaucratic the system is.
But of course the entire SWE profession is based on grifting, and extracting as much money as possible from the customers while cutting the costs. If you are so afraid to save passwords to a database, then at least don't call yourself a software engineer.