@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
Post #4166483
2026-07-28 14:49 UTC
Replies (6)
-
@401matthall@mastodon.xyz 2026-07-28 15:01
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange RIGHT?! We're left with the _absolute_ hardest part of writing code... Debugging _clever_ f'ing code. So tired.
-
@irene@discuss.systems 2026-07-28 19:26
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange oh no this is me https://www.sigops.org/2026/slow-software-the-case-for-high-latency-systems-development/
-
@davidbcohen@twit.social 2026-07-28 20:41
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @afewbugs@social.coop They have Microsoft CoPilot at work, and I got a message yesterday asking me why I wasn’t using it more, and what could they do to help! I replied that I used it where it could be helpful (it is great for searching our document archive and the inbuilt search is pants) but that I wouldn’t use it to generate work slop. I was told that we need to use it more to get value from what we pay for it. Fuck that.
-
@Steve@social.coop 2026-07-28 15:04
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Tools should be simple, transparent, and predictable. Tools should be boring.
-
@orava@ruhr.social 2026-07-28 15:12
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange It isn't the tools who steal, cheat lie and boil the planet. It's those who build and (willingly) use such tools. We really have to keep reminding ourselves who actually has the agency here.
-
@dtauvdiodr@c.im 2026-07-28 15:16
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Someone at work - apparently trying to save time? - wrote a maintenance runbook with AI - I guess in the name of avoiding the toil of writing a one-liner script - and it was this complicated loop-based unreadable callback function that was difficult to troubleshoot because it obscured the error from the multiple commands within it. The best part, though, was that it assigned a single value to a list and iterated over the list to do the work - for a single value that would always be a single value, no human would ever have chosen to bother with code that iterates over a list of a single value. But here we are. Blindly running bullshit callback funcs that are now so plainly AI that I recognize it immediately.