Edit: Removing the bit where I think I totally missed your point.

I’m not saying it won’t work. It will work.

But it will work because someone clever will fix the inate computer stupidity with hard-coded human cleverness. Again.

I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

Same! But the ones I cause don’t count.

It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.

I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.

but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than stupid in the new LLM enhanced computer way.

I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.

So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.

“Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…

Edit: I’m already wrong. It sounds like it was computers being stupid is old tried and true ways; not computers being stupid in new trendy ways.

It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding

It is. Sometimes the big secret turns out to just be what we all thought was happening.

Dang. I had to look it up, but CrowdStike taking down a huge percentage of Windows PCs was so last year, I guess.

Yes. You’ve shared the use case where Agentic AI makes sense.

Basically, if I need more randomness than a shell script can supply, it makes sense to mix a learning model in.

The use case I think we will continue to see significant use in is (low quality) advertising in contexts where only the product matters (not the brand). The cost for failure is lower, and the reward for creativity is higher.

Even in that nearly ideal use case, many companies leveraging it are going to discover that their brand image cannot afford to be associated with sociopathic AI slop. So I think even that trend is about to peak and reduce.

“Hey siri create me an e-commerce site” isn’t likely to happen for a long while, because like you said it’s a complex thing that doesn’t have clear success measures.

One would hope so, but of course Someone is trying it, and it has gone as poorly as you might imagine.

there are ways to turn down the randomness to get more consistent outputs for simple tasks.

Yes: shell scripting, which we have had for half a century.

But the term “Agentic AI” sells better than “shell scripting with extra steps and shittier results.”

I’m a non-tech fl0pper. So what’s wrong with .world?

There’s nothing wrong with it. Lots of folks pick one or more instances more central to their interests, after they get to know this place.

It doesn’t make a huge difference.

Some of us have noticed ourselves subscribed to a large number of communities from the same instance, and then creates an account there to check out their “local” feed and discover new communities.

Wait, so no surprise brand new cars with a giant red bow for Christmas like they show in the commercials? /s

Haha. That is the perfect example. Just seeing those commercials makes me feel uneasy.

I hope this becomes real. We can have our own Truman show, until they change the laws.

Pepsi man!

I had issues with this, with my partner. They love surprises, and kept trying to learn how to correctly surprise me with a gift.

The sentence that finally got us on the same page:

“I can enjoy a surprise. But I enjoy same event, whatever it is, more, if it is not a surprise. I don’t necessarily hate every event that is a surprise. But every surprise is less pleasant to me than the same event would be without the surprise.”

This finally got them to stop trying to find a right way to surprise me, and just make a judgement call whether the surprise was worth making it a little less nice for me.

They do still surprise me, sometimes, but they finally understand that there’s a cost, to me, to it. And now they weigh that into their decision, and it is so nice for me!

Edit: And we now have a shared understanding that anything big or expensive or hard to store needs to not be a surprise.

Figured it was made for people who read the books.

Narrator: Surprisingly, it was not.

Some men can get the ability, but if men use magic, they go insane. It’s just how the magic works.

If I recall correctly, that does, turn out to be enforced by some powerful assholes, at least - not an intrinsic aspect of sexuality or gender.

But I don’t mean to claim that forgives the various essentialist tendencies. It all feels a little off.

How did they squander being the name in autonomous vacuum devices…?

Letting a picture of a customer using the bathroom leak onto Facebook cannot have helped.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/

Throw them over the edge!

Why would you want “steam” installed? It’s just a normal program, you can install it yourself in 5 minutes.

Because having Steam pre-installed signals that the hardware producer planned for gaming and has done some basic testing for gaming.

The new “Steam Machine Verified” badge is the most exciting part of all this.