barbazoo
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There is no human connection typing words into a box, that's seems like what it's mostly replacing. Talking to your email client, talking to your AI agent. Lots of us are much faster speaking than typing and especially with AI, it doesn't matter a whole lot in my experience how polished the output is, the benefit from ending up with a lot more text because one can just talk freely is very beneficial.
It's "betting" though, right?
I'd still try to get to the result a different way, even if it involves doing another search. Same with Amazon.
Posted by
barbazoo on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:41PM
from the cbc.ca dept.
> Sometimes you would be able to still get vital information and being actually able to act.
Optimistically assuming you have a minute to react (I'm imagining closer to 10s), what could one possibly do?
Not OP but I'm imagining we'd ask the question why the "dispatcher ordered manual bypass ignoring the rest of the guardrails". They're saying it's all slices of cheese in a system that failed here.
And they're still being identified, decades later and still getting into trouble for it which I love.
>> We also sign custom NDA's
> And why should I have to sign an NDA?
I think you misunderstood?
> The new law, championed by Gov. Janet Mills, was meant to limit distractions and encourage real-life connections
That's right, I just read about that. Even crossing the English channel apparently was unpredictable at times.
I only use FB occasionally for marketplace with an empty account. All that it's ever suggesting in the home feed is hateful, right-wing content. Never anything positive. It's so sad that that's what drives the metrics these people care about. If this is your job, shame on you!
How would one implement that?
> Yes, some kids will get around these blocks
Hopefully not at scale so overall the ban still has the desired effect.
At the next protest against the government.
> The organization also said that despite its legal counsel’s multiple requests over months, Navigate360 — the U.S.-based third party that manages all of Crime Stoppers’ anonymous tips internationally through its software platform P3 — did not provide the text of the stolen tips, so it cannot see them.
> The response also included a detailed timeline stating that Navigate360 initially said the leak did not include any Canadian data. It then said some Canadian data had been stolen but not Toronto's, before finally confirming that about three years' worth of Toronto data actually was affected.
You're being sarcastic, right? Right? It's a 1.5 trillion dollar company [1], how would this amount even be relevant compared to the profits they made from their behavior.
[1] https://youtu.be/C7UC2ie0XIE?t=49
Why would you personally punish the chumps that execute the orders instead of leadership that gave the orders?
> The company is also laying off around 400 staffers, Bloomberg reports, including around 50 at BioWare. The changes follow EA being taken private by an investor group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners in a $55 billion deal that closed in August.
Never thought that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund would shutdown the company that created so many childhood memories.
One must not say something is "best"?
From outside it seems that Ukraine is not really given a choice right now but to defend itself. I wish for a soon end to the war so your beautiful country can prosper again and your people can start healing.
Username checks out and thank you for writing out my own feelings better than I ever could have, even with AI.
Totally, I can't quite imagine an AI automating my use of AI tough, how it would infer what prompt I would use at any given time, the problem space is infinite. Am I adding another *arr app to my stack, are we building a SPA, a home automation plugin, whatever. These are things that I want to do and AI helps with that.
In the corporate setting I think though it won't take a lot of time to reduce the layers and number of people that are required to run a software company. Either one becomes a more general work manager or obsolete I guess.
> People who hated coding, technology, problem solving and only were in it for the money love managing a bunch of agents.
Why do they have to hate coding, technology and problem solving, that makes no sense. They just use coding agents to write the code for them to use technology and solve problem.
Let's be honest though, maybe "in the same way it's no longer feasible for tailors to spin their own yarn and weave their own cloth".
> Everyone in SWE is experiencing this.
Obviously this is not true for every SWE. A lot of people feel liberated now that the burden of actually writing the code is being replaced by molding it through the interaction with AI. I see people that struggle because they've identified with the writing code part a lot and that's gone now that the machine is doing it, I bet that's hard.
Would thee agent do it in a way that's hard to trace back to the individual too maybe. That'd be helpful.
Or heaven forbid even communicating with the other human directly.
I don't see this kind of behavior myself, I wonder if it's me not pushing the boundaries enough or me explicitly or implicitly framing the prompt in a way that makes it less likely for the agent to intervene.
The behavior you're describing has already brought us close to the planetary boundaries of our own existence in the last century or two. Plenty of second order effects to our actions.