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A couple of tricks I use:

• an apparmor profile tied to a shell script that wraps other commands … it restricts read & write access to a scratch directory … perfect for builds or one off scripts.

• iptables rules & cgroups to restrict network access… I have a setuid wrapper that drops privs again…

• bwrap and mounting only what’s necessary… quick to get going.

• custom landlock wrapper, similar to apparmor but allows for quick userspace wrapping.

They can be combined too.

No, anyone who uses, or has even a single time used, AI deliberately (or accidentally) is stupid and a witch… with warts… and should be burned at the stake… Huzzah.

Offshore hosting and VPNs enter the chat.

It’s mildly risky, as a small player, to host anything public in your own legal jurisdiction or that you can’t “cut loose” on a whim. It’s not just silly laws, but also civil lawsuits, copyright trolls, bad actors, etc.

If they can’t easily identify you, they can’t easily ruin your day, and most opportunists will give up.

I was recently reading about Talon Voice, which sounded quite interesting with lots of usability hacks. Unfortunately, not an option anymore if you are a Linux user: https://www.osnews.com/story/145162/accessibility-input-tool-removes-x11-support-doesnt-want-to-support-wayland-users-caught-in-the-middle/

AI is just the next excuse, and there will always be a next excuse.

It’s of course true that one can use AI to be a lazy thinker, but that does not mean that everyone (on every occasion) who uses AI is thinking lazily.

I agree, though, that it is a risk, and risks should be managed. We are, as a species, predisposed to fast/lazy thinking. Recognizing and compensating for our own weaknesses is important.

(edit: that reads like AI when I am drunk… apologies…)

IIRC, the ancient greek philosophers took a swing at writing, claiming it would weaken memory/increase reliance on written texts to create an illusion of knowledge, plus it can’t engage in dialogue which they considered a requirement to develop true knowledge.

IMHO, there’s some narrow merit to the arguments, but on the whole, writing has helped to democratise knowledge, and serves as an important tool in education.

Perhaps you should work on your english comprehension.

Is THAT the best you could come up with? Oh dear.

One could just as well argue that books / written knowledge is a crutch that prevents people from learning.

Assuming everyone using a tool is outsourcing their thinking is daft, and casting unfounded aspersions on others isn’t exactly a model of critical thinking either. lol

Indeed.

What I see: A world class software engineer (Samba, rsync, linux, and more) is learning how to use the latest tech that is vastly changing the industry he works in. It would be both foolish and irresponsible to not learn it and embrace it responsibly. If anyone is in a good position to direct and judge the output of LLMs, it will be engineers like Andrew who have spent their life applying critical thinking and good judgement.

And on the opposing side, we see a bunch of droll jammerlappies, pitching tents on the side of a highway, waving their fists at the world zooming by.

You can also use it to improve your grammar and vocabulary. It’s quite the tool.

I vote for MAIT (Meta AI Technologies), pronounced with an Australian accent.

checks lifetime jellyfin pass price … Yup, still $0

Xenix/GNU/Linux, all the pain of Microsoft UNIX, now with a Linux kernel!

In many cases, yes. A difference now will be the long-term size and composition of the teams (smaller & more generalists, with PMs, POs & Architects just as likely to contribute code as engineers)

2 pizza teams can become 1 pizza teams who can manage an entire product/component, or more. And those 3+ pizza teams can strip the fat or split into more productive teams.

I think we’ll also see increased demand for platform/deployment standardization and concentrated/novel support structures, as teams start biting off more than they can chew, along the the desire for out-of-the-box guardrails around AI code & tools.

Very true.

Given that AI is particularly useful at increasing alignment (when applied smartly), and that this is often a role delegated to middle managers, it is quite likely that flatter orgs will happen.

The need for top-tier technical, product, and business judgement and problem engagement will increase, while the need for muddle-through managers and similar roles will decrease.

We’ll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass “archaic” processes and deliver meaningful results. We’ll see a lot of sloppy failures along the way too, but the overall trend seems clear.

Business Plan now has the option for subscription-free Codex-only users with PAYG pricing, and configurable limits.

Not quite sure about enterprise – they might be doing an Anthropic there, where enterprise tokens are 100% PAYG.

For normal Plus and Business plans: Rate limits for the 5 hour & weekly windows remain, similar to before. The usage calculations will change a bit though.

lol, but not completely inaccurate. “You are a pedantic code reviewer. Review the MR you just created”