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New comment by pautasso in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

pautasso — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:02:39 +0000

All code that could be written by humans, has been written. Henceforth, the rest will be generated.

New comment by pautasso in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

pautasso — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:36:32 +0000

AI goes through great lengths to ensure it's talking with humans.

Why would two AI bots want to chat with each other?

New comment by pautasso in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

pautasso — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:18:03 +0000

Everyone now posting on social media about how the sentence "Social Media is Addictive" is going viral.

New comment by pautasso in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

pautasso — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:55:45 +0000

The problem is when students just blindly copy and paste from the chatbot and submit it as their own answer without even reading it.

They should be encouraged to read and review the LLM output so they can critically understand it and take ownership of it.

New comment by pautasso in "Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did"

pautasso — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:57:58 +0000

Here are a few more examples:

https://leanpub.com/unethical-software-engineering/

    Covert Surveillance
            EMAIL PIXEL INJECTOR 
            STEALTHY INPUT LOGGER 

    Monetization at all costs
            AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISER 
            AD BLOCKER DETECTOR 
            PAY TO WIN 
            ADDICTION PEDDLER 
            ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY HOARDER 
            DRM RUG PULLER 
            OBSOLESCENCE PLANNER 

    Digital Fraud
            CYBERSQUATTER 
            SNEAKY TERMS DEGRADER 
            INTEROPERABILITY BREAKER 

    Ranking Manipulation
            FAKE REVIEW GENERATOR 
            SEARCH RANKING KICKBACKER 

    Unethical Artificial Intelligence Practices
            TRAINING DATA HARVESTER 
            BOT PRETENDER 
            DECEPTIVE DEEPFAKER