Post by @seanm@infosec.exchange

2026-08-29 18:59 UTC

@troed@swecyb.com @briankrebs@infosec.exchange you're right! I was not using GenAI for sysadmin or software dev as you clearly stated were the only acceptable areas for GenAI. I was using it to develop software and admin a database. These are clearly different and do not fall under your OK/NOK usage cases. I'll keep this in mind and hold my phone differently next time. You're also right that GenAI is not good as a database. I'll let Google, Microsoft, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Twitter, the US government, and every other major GenAI company know that they're also holding their phones wrong and using GenAI wrong. They can also stop putting GenAI into everything and they won't need as much computing capacity. Phew. They don't actually need more datacenters! #GenAI #LLM #AISlop

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@troed@swecyb.com 2026-08-29 19:02

@seanm@infosec.exchange This is how you used it as a database: "I tried to use GenAI to help with a problem. Its first response was wrong and outdated. I pointed out it was missing current functionality. Its updated, second response still turned out wrong." The rest of your post contains nothing on topic, more than to show that you're not actually engaging in a good faith argument. I spent three weeks in March learning how to get good results from LLM tools. I'm very sure you haven't, and you have no intention on doing either. I view that the same as an employee being told to learn a new API or library and just sitting around pouting because it's DiFfErENt. @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

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