Post #1931640
2026-05-02 10:13 UTC
@wakame @dotjayne Not a full agree.
We have no problem with laughing at the AIs.
When humans screwed up, it was usually not reported as a gigantic headline, often not at all, because considerable effort was spent to cover up embarrassing failures.
Philosophically, classifying roughly, probably 10% of work life was spent on some form of data recovery effort that some dear human colleague caused in the first place. Admittedly, that's likely related to the fact that I worked a good part of my
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@yacc143@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 10:13
as an IT consultant who was often hired as an emergency firefighter when the office building was already half ablaze (virtually), but it's way more common than one assumes. With human-caused disasters, it's just that a) only the huge ones reach the public and b) only the huge ones are in any way newsworthy. So I managed to kill my first Internet-attached Linux server as a student in 1993 or so with a bash multiline loop trying to uninstall packages and had to reinstall it. <- not newsworthy.