Yeah, the guy that just released all Adobe products a week ago that barely work, surely releasing another suite of tools next weekend instead of fixing the plethora of bugs is a good sign that he is capable to keep maintaining a project in long term.

I did try the PhotoSlop, and within the like 20 minutes I couldn't make the canvas the size I asked for, the work (mostly trying random stuff, but that's not the point) did not get saved when I saved it, and it froze when I alt-tabbed, so I lost all of it.

I'm sure it's getting them a lot of attention, but why would I use anything of his when he got bored with it and moved to another project in literally a week while it has absolutely blocker issues?

You should choose random parts, and add "I don't think this makes sense, can you explain this part?" or "Why didn't you use instead?", "I think you should have done " here." to random parts of the PR. No need for it to be true or read it, not like it matters. You can keep doing that for quite a long time :D Sure, they'll just copy-paste it to their agent, but the longer you keep that going, the more unsure will they be, probably.

Or even better, just message him that you have questions about the PR, if they can come over because it's more things, and ask these comments directly.

I've been able to find a workflow where it's mostly correct and can handle most of my gamedev related coding without making too many mistakes. I still have to actually read through the code and pay some attention to what it's doing, and if it misses something and goes on a wild goose chase, it's unusable and I have to start over (so someone who didn't know what they are doing would be cooked), but whatever.

Sure, it does require a lot of looping adversarial reviews, and my average token cost is around 3000$ (4B tokens) a month (we have unlimited budgets and a pretty accurate tracking, and also probably cheaper than consumer prices per token with how large company it is), which is actually more than my monthly salary, but it's just a job, for a company and on a product I don't really care about, and I can 1) keep slacking in my job while doing my own coding stuff and projects, and keep seeing how absolutely unreasonable the prices are if you want to get at least semi-submitable results.

You could ask if it's necessary to spend so much tokens - but so far most adversary review rounds do find serious blocker bugs the first implementation had, most of them being some hidden stuff that would be difficult to reasonably find by hand unless you really understand everything around the code, which you should, but the point of AI is that you shouldn't have to.

Is it worth it? Lol, no. The whole team is loosing codebase knowledge, we're getting bottle-necked by pending PR reviews that are just stacking up and no one wants to do, so we're not even more effective, the cost is absolutely absurd and in no way near sustainable or worth it. And the longer it goes on, the less I can realize it's spewing bullshit and I should stop it and nudge it into a different direction in our codebase, because I'm slowly loosing touch with it, while for now I'm still relying on what I remember from before we went all-in on AI.

And that's while the whole industry is in the "Uber pricing" phase, so it will get a lot worse. But yeah, if you can burn 100-200$ per a simple implementation task, then it can have a pretty usable results. And that 3000$ a month does not include our CI review bot, that does additional rounds of multi-agent council reviews. And I'm not even working on anything complex, mostly just various menu screens UI. I can imagine the bill getting a lot higher if you get into more involved systems.

While not strictly a dinner, I'm usually opting (or at least suggest, if the other side would be interested) for a local billiard place. It's not just a pub with a random one table, but an actual cue sports place/bar, with like 20 tables. It does have drinks and is also a restaurant, and in general looks relatively fancy.

I like billiard (pool) because it's easy to pick up, gives you something to do during/between conversations without requiring too much focus, can be done in fancy clothes without needing to change into anything, and can look fancy with drinks. It's also something that everyone plays basically on the same skill level, whether you are playing for a first time or for 50th time, with only people who are actually practicing regularly being noticeably better (which I'm not), so it's never really too one-sided. And it's fun.

So far it has worked well.

Please please I really hope they will force US companies to start calling their chatbots SI instead of AI, and forbid them from using the term AI.

That would be such a funny PR/marketing nightmare. It's such a cringe term :D

There was one defcon talk about it. It's a lot of pretty complex reverse engineering, so getting really good at reading and understanding assembly and working with debuggers /disassemblers without symbols is a start.

The talk I remember, where they were able to steer and break any car of the model in the world remotely, they got in by finding a unauth vulnerability in a remote call, and then used the firmware update process to bridge the almost airgapped vehicle controls system from the frontend car control (the screen, etc) system.

They boasted how secure it is because it's airgaoped and compromised frontend can't touch the critical vehicle controls. It almost was, save for a single function used for updating both at once. It was months of reverse engineering and several bricked cars.

But if you just want to change the frontend a little bit, it's not going to be as complex, probably. Still really difficult.

What, you don't have your SWAP set to 1TB Google Drive share?

This is cool! My sanity with self-hosting was mostly perserved by MASH, they have an amazing ansible scripts I never had any problem with, which is usually rare.

I can't imagine figuring all of this on my own.

Take a look at how Firefox marketshare rose when Chrome killed ad-blockers, or how did Discord's marketshare drop when Discord started asking for age verification, and there's your answer.

I honestly never thought about that. :D

If they have AR screen (no idea tbh), then I'd love to have one to see if an IRL adblock is possible. It shouldn't be hard, OCR is already there, and just overlaying a rectangle over adds shouldn't be that difficult.

Unfortunatel, it would need an always on camera, and people are dickheads who just have to start misusing that.

I'm really a fan of the dogmatized occultisms. The orders like Illuminates of Thanateros, Golden Dawn, John Dee's books, even Wicca, Discordians.

It's really interesting rabbit hole that's a nice open-mindness exercise, plus it's fascinating to experiment with.

Almost everyone I've met who showed any interrest in occultism was always taking it too seriously, to the point of sounding unhealthy. They either knew and read the actual sources, and were too much into it, or they had some kind of random vibes-based new-age approach (and also were too much into it to the point of sounding insane).

I never really understood that. Maintaining an open mind while still keeping a little bit of dostance from it, taking it more like a research into history with a bit of curious practice (basically LARPing would be a perfect analogy), is fun and what I did, but people usually just let it take over their lifes in very unhealthy fashion.

I've tried out several of the orders/practices, and each one was fascinating to get into, I would say had overall positive effect on my life, even if it was just having fun larping/method acting and exploring what effects it has on my mental state.

I never interacted with the community, though. I've only met one other person who has similar aproach, and a lot of people who you'd consider insane upon hearing how they talk about it.

I highly recommend giving it a try with open mind. I work in IT, never really was into spiritualism or religion, but getting through i.e this book on Wicca, with an open mind, without prejudice and giving it a honest try, was really an eye openning experience. I didn't stick with it for long, but the few months I tried were suprisingly fun. It's basically solo LARPing.

Also, the whole history around that and other cults is really fascinating read, but trying out the practice is where most of the controversal (for some) fun is. But again - it's like with religion - you have to be careful not to let it take over your life, annoy others with it, or use it as an excuse for anything, from why your life sucks or why you can be a dick.