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New comment by chrisjj in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:44:29 +0000

And now the "AI" industry is doubling down on it - with hatbot prompt injection.

New comment by chrisjj in "My Ten Years in No Man's Sky"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:57:55 +0000

I'm interested to hear what aspects of the original promise you'd say remain unfulfilled.

New comment by chrisjj in "My Ten Years in No Man's Sky"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:52:21 +0000

I'm interested to hear what aspects of the original promise you believe remain unfulfilled.

New comment by chrisjj in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

> Nothing in the PR jumps out as a red flag.

Made by AI?

New comment by chrisjj in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:58:56 +0000

> a single quote in the title breaks out of echo '...' and allows arbitrary command execution.

Quote injection still alive and well in 2026. Gawd.

New comment by chrisjj in "Incident with Github.com"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:40:39 +0000

Donkey, surely.

New comment by chrisjj in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:32:45 +0000

No. It means they have a capacity problem.

New comment by chrisjj in "Incident with Github.com"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:30:23 +0000

They've had a couple of months and still have not brought in sufficient extra capacity?? What's their excuse?

New comment by chrisjj in "Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny"

chrisjj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:06:59 +0000

> Do they even tell you what the material is?

They do. Click the link.

New comment by chrisjj in "Asus Bike Booster"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:47:58 +0000

You are not the target audience. The "AI" label is intended to attract stupid people.

New comment by chrisjj in "Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:13:35 +0000

> In any code or structured output, there just isn’t the flexibility

Variable name perversion incoming...

New comment by chrisjj in "Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:12:09 +0000

> the only acceptable answer for why an LLM should choose bananas instead of pineapple (or coconut, or guava, or papaya...) is that it has determined that it’s the best fit for the intended meaning, tone, and sentiment of the text.

It already fails. It randomly picks between close candidates. To help fool people into believing in intelligence claim, I guess.

New comment by chrisjj in "Claude Is Down"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:00:09 +0000

The update is awaiting PR dept approval.

New comment by chrisjj in "Prediction Firms Are Flagging Insider Traders. Many Will Not Face Charges."

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:38:53 +0000

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New comment by chrisjj in "Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:03:46 +0000

How would the human ever know the so-called AI was keeping him/her in the loop for the important decisions?

New comment by chrisjj in "Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:59:13 +0000

Plastic-free teabags are a thing e.g. https://www.hampsteadtea.com/

New comment by chrisjj in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0000

I've seen no example of emergent behaviour dominatimg LLM output.

New comment by chrisjj in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:26:27 +0000

Indeed. The child applied intelligence.

The LLM has none, so it relies upon regurgitating what it's ingested, and unsurisingly that includes very little programming Q&A with young children. It has no record of not knowing the answer, and so cannot give this correct response.

New comment by chrisjj in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:58:11 +0000

It confirms what we knew. The stochastic parrot regurgitates what it was fed. There's no intelligence.

New comment by chrisjj in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

chrisjj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:28:58 +0000

> Emergent behavior exists and at this point dominates LLM behavior.

Better to say emergent behavior exists and at this point dominates gulled LLM users' behavior.

LLM output is not emergent behaviour. Its simply word prediction with some randomness.