I love everything about this, other than the people butthurt that their free software doesn’t like AI. I’ll give the smallest amount of criticism that it was obfuscated initially, because that’s just malware even if I think it’s justified. By clearly stating what it does, then the onus is on the user to audit the code and modify as needed. I would love to see more of this type of action to become standard practice, but just deleting the test suite isn’t quite painful enough for what I’d like to see.

I created a PoC to have an event parse an employees emails, summarize them, then check the calendar and recommend meetings and follow up based on context. It ended up working okay, but it was such a waste of time. This was a C Suite employee that requested, who gets a high volume of junk email. Why would you want AI to (initially requested) auto create meetings for you? That sounds like my nightmare. In the end, it never hit prod thankfully, but, the dev work to get to where I did was awful. Developing AI agents is like guessing and checking until you get close enough. Debugging is brutal and the work is extremely uninspiring.

I was put in a position to start building and deploying copilot agents in our company. I discovered in the first day how unprepared our environment was for anything copilot. The default state when you get licenses and an environment to work in, is the wild west. It’s really bad and as is tradition, half cocked and rushed to market. I wrote out pages of notes of things we had to do as a company before even the most simple agents are created for security and governance. I never got the support to implement any changes, so I drug my feet as much as I could on anything I could. For 6 months I successfully never deployed any AI stuff and got out to do full stack dev instead. I created PoC agents, but with hard caveats that none of it was usable in the current state in prod.

Now prices are increasing and our drive to force agentic has softened a little company wide. I like to think that my semi malicious yet justified slow walking saved us a whole shit load of headache and expenses over the next couple of months as the new copilot pricing hits on June 1.

Trolls gonna troll. This here is what we call a false equivalency. Paying to have a person use their skills to complete a complex technical task with liability is far different from using an environment destroying, unreliable and insecure technology that carries no liability to do a worse job. One funds a person that will circulate that income, the other goes to a mega Corp where a billionaire will sleep on that money like an IRL Smaug.

That implies there’s something to leak.

It’s more about my clients than for me. I’ve used tailscale with good success for other applications, but that’s mostly something I don’t want to need to explain to 10-20 people.

I’m seeing that you can use VPN like tailscale, setup a reverse proxy, or just open ports. Just opening ports and giving direct access is a security vulnerability and not recommended. VPN is easy, but not something I would want to try and get my clients to sign up for and show them how to use. Reverse proxy seems like the best option, but that’s not easier than just installing the Plex client for streaming that has the proxy built in.

Unless something has changed, it doesn’t have the remote streaming capabilities of Plex. Not saying one can’t remote stream, but it’s not as simple as installing a client and logging in. It requires network config and security, VPNs, and each client to setup stuff too. Please correct me if I’m wrong on that though.

Plex has been enshitifying but I’m on the lifetime pass so for me things are free and just work still.

I’m fortunate to have an effective scrum master. She knows the products will enough to properly interface with our different stage holders. The amount of shit that doesn’t make it to us because she’s essentially our firewall to the customers, is astounding.

That said, there are plenty of other business decisions being made that are rapidly leading to a team wide brain drain. The top brass is so out of touch with reality, and they make major decisions on that ignorance without consulting anyone that knows anything. It’s also turned into a boys club at the top, so there’s no individual accountability, just yes men.

Your right, but I can imagine what it would be like, and that’s something.

They don’t want every website to do it though.

You asked if it is, and the response was “yes”.

Sure, for basic projects if you don’t value security or efficiency.

Read the room.

It’s not about your system. It’s about every system connecting to the Internet. It’s not local age verification, it’s widespread monitoring by the government.

I’m curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn’t do logging, and inherently you’re traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That’s kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.

If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.

It was like that when I got here. Also that crunching noise you heard and sparks you saw were a typical poop for me.

AI is the most rushed to market product I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It makes Cyberpunk’s release like like a polished gem in comparison. Yes, things evolve over their life cycle for better or worse, but none of this other things have been so ingrained in everything, cost even a fraction of LLMs, both monetarily and environmentally, it sucked as hard.

AI is a different monster. A shitty shitty monster.

I remember reading that. My brother is in the AF, and through some system, they can get gear like Garmin Fenix watches that does GPS tracking and uploads to their cloud and can be synced with Strava. It’s wild that stuff like this isn’t strictly monitored to prevent this exact scenario.

Jensen is a dumb, out of touch motherfucker