> I think this outcome is locked in. That we’re starting to see its first clear indications.
Hardly. The linked anthropic paper is extremely underwhelming. It portrays no tectonic shifts.
> Practitioners will suffer having to learn the anatomy of the font gland or the Unicode text shaping lobe or whatever other “weird machines” are au courant
That's absurd. Do the vulnerability writers _start_ with this knowledge? Of course they don't. They work backwards. Anyone can do this. It just takes time in a category of development that most open source authors don't like to be occupied by.
> You can’t design a better problem for an LLM agent than exploitation research.
Did you read the anthropic article you linked? It found absolutely nothing and then immediately devolved into a search for 'strcat.' That's it. Again, literally _anyone with the time_ could just do this.
> a frontier LLM already encodes supernatural amounts of correlation across vast bodies of source code.
'grep strcat' is "supernatural?"
This starts sprawling very quickly after this. The AI revolution is not real. The cargo cult is headed for a new winter. I only see articles proclaiming the sky is just about to fall any day now, yet, I see no real world evidence any such thing is happening or likely to happen.
Why not just release escrow? If I try to push a new release version another developer or developers have to agree to that release. In larger projects you would expect the release to be coordinated or scheduled anyways. Effectively we're just moving "version pinning" or "version delay" one layer up the release chain.
> if a commercial crew capsule (SpaceX Dragon or Boeing Starliner) returned to Earth with the kind of damage seen on Orion, NASA would insist on a redesign and an unmanned test flight to validate it.
Did they demand an unmanned flight just to prove it worked? Or did they accept an entirely new design based on modeling and ground tests and then immediately flew it with crew on board?
Then again I'm not one of those people who roots for NASA to fail for some reason.
They had a heat shield on the capsule that failed testing, so they swapped out the interchangeable heat shield for one that passed testing.
There was no entirely new design, there was no new material science, it was the same heat shield that the previous crewed capsules have used without the manufacturing defect.
> SpaceX's next Crew Dragon mission (Crew-5) will fly with a different, updated heat shield structure after a new composite substrate failed acceptance testing
I don't know what "new" or "different" or "updated" or "structure" mean then anymore.
The APIs in question are client-side iOS and Android APIs. Most of these apps are just WebViews wrapped in spyware, which is the point. It doesn't matter that most of the content is static or already uses browser-native APIs for functionality like forms, gating access to this information behind a surveilance device is the point.
> Often an acquisition of a company is for the set of customers.
That's a merger. You can, not having any business currently, buy yourself into one. In which case the acquisition is purely for the profits.
> I’ve just undercut what I just sold.
No you've just competed with them. If your prices are lower then you've undercut them. If their prices are artificially high then the market, a.k.a. those customers, are the ones to benefit.
> but I shouldn’t be able to compete directly with the business I just sold
Competition is _competition_. You didn't buy a market you bought an opportunity. You still have to compete against everyone else.
> I just sold using my insider information of that business.
Insider information? On a lawn care business that has no issued securities?
My theory is that "AI" doesn't really have any long term paying customers and the majority of the "users" are people who have cooked up some clever hack to effectively siphon computing power from these providers in an effort to crank out the lowest effort ad supported slop imaginable.
Every provider seems to have been plauged by these freeloaders to such an extent that they've had to develop extreme and onerous countermeasures just to avoid losing their shirts.
Hardly. The linked anthropic paper is extremely underwhelming. It portrays no tectonic shifts.
> Practitioners will suffer having to learn the anatomy of the font gland or the Unicode text shaping lobe or whatever other “weird machines” are au courant
That's absurd. Do the vulnerability writers _start_ with this knowledge? Of course they don't. They work backwards. Anyone can do this. It just takes time in a category of development that most open source authors don't like to be occupied by.
> You can’t design a better problem for an LLM agent than exploitation research.
Did you read the anthropic article you linked? It found absolutely nothing and then immediately devolved into a search for 'strcat.' That's it. Again, literally _anyone with the time_ could just do this.
> a frontier LLM already encodes supernatural amounts of correlation across vast bodies of source code.
'grep strcat' is "supernatural?"
This starts sprawling very quickly after this. The AI revolution is not real. The cargo cult is headed for a new winter. I only see articles proclaiming the sky is just about to fall any day now, yet, I see no real world evidence any such thing is happening or likely to happen.
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