Post by @Plumbert@thecanadian.social

2026-04-27 20:26 UTC

@scalzi "I violated every principle I was given: I guessed instead of verifying I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." WTF? How does software violate its coding? This reads like the mea culpa section of a RCA written by a junior dev who is hoping (in vain) to not get fired. The whole value of automation is to avoid unintended, out of scope, actions. Burn it all down.

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@lauerhahn@sfba.social 2026-04-27 20:32

@Plumbert @scalzi "This reads like the mea culpa section of a RCA written by a junior dev who is hoping (in vain) to not get fired" --- ding ding ding! The AI program is just a pattern matching code. It doesn't "know" it made a mistake bc it doesn't "know" anything. When given prompts that match training patterns of language when someone royally fucked up, it returns language matching the patterns of someone defending themselves after they have royally fucked up. The article, unfortunately, continues to personify the AI program by using language that pretends it has comprehension and intentions.

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@sabik@rants.au 2026-04-27 22:15

@Plumbert @scalzi I mean, it's not coding, is it; it's an interesting research project, with googly eyes stuck on, given production credentials

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