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New comment by rjbwork in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

rjbwork — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:47:19 +0000

I have a friend that is a junior in a security-oriented sys-admin/network engineer type role. They have been doing the job for only a bit over a year. No background in programming.

Their entire organization has been handed Codex/Claude and told to "go all in on AI" and "automate everything". So the mandate is for people that do not know how to code and have the keys to the castle to unleash these things upon their systems.

This is at a large organization with tens of thousands of employees.

I am waiting with bated breath for the ultimate outcome!

New comment by rjbwork in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

rjbwork — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:24:54 +0000

And then those companies can give them their due ~~bribes~~ totally free and unrelated gifts out of the goodness of their hearts to such illustrious paragons of American governance, as legalized by the supreme court recently.

New comment by rjbwork in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

rjbwork — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:18:03 +0000

I don't think they're going to struggle at all. It's quite clear.

New comment by rjbwork in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

rjbwork — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:21:34 +0000

I think you're probably vastly discounting the amount of childhood neglect wrought by social media addiction on both the parent and child's parts.

New comment by rjbwork in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

rjbwork — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:54:28 +0000

I would argue quite the contrary. NoSQL DBs got through their hype cycle and are now a standard part of stacks, but SQL (especially via Postgres) has re-emerged as the golden standard for the bulk of data needs.

New comment by rjbwork in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

rjbwork — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:29:17 +0000

Then you send a swarm and fly a few sacrificial drones them into the airplanes.

New comment by rjbwork in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

rjbwork — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:19:47 +0000

It's not a product where you are the user. Your attention is the product being sold to advertisers and the videos are a harvesting/production mechanism.

It is not in the interests of either YT or the advertisers to allow you to opt out of features that are proven to be lucrative for eyeballs.

New comment by rjbwork in "Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours"

rjbwork — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:29:33 +0000

It's very easy to offer the lives of others for your goals.

New comment by rjbwork in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

rjbwork — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:54:38 +0000

They are the winners. They want to stay the winners. So they are incentivized make sure that nobody else can climb up to challenge them.

New comment by rjbwork in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

rjbwork — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:53:51 +0000

I wasn't speaking about the top of the chain. Merely the last couple of replies about the situation WRT how things are actually operating.

New comment by rjbwork in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

rjbwork — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:43:17 +0000

You got downvoted a bit but I upvoted. You're clearly being descriptive in your statements, not prescriptive. I tend to agree that this is how things are now.

Our country is not being run by the rule of law right now.

New comment by rjbwork in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

rjbwork — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:40:46 +0000

They're not conservatives.

New comment by rjbwork in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

rjbwork — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:29:39 +0000

It's very evident when you work with the young juniors. I've seen people with CS degrees that don't know their keyboard shortcuts.

New comment by rjbwork in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

rjbwork — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:46:46 +0000

WW2

New comment by rjbwork in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

rjbwork — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:41:58 +0000

The latter, but both for sure.

New comment by rjbwork in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

rjbwork — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:12:59 +0000

Yeah well my family's been here for hundreds of years and fuck him. They're more American than that piece of shit will ever be.

New comment by rjbwork in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

rjbwork — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:12:09 +0000

Indeed. Bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. He kickstarted our self-destruction.

New comment by rjbwork in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

rjbwork — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:10:33 +0000

complete non-sequiter. legalization would solve many of our problems, and if done 20-25 years ago, have taken care of that cartel issue down south.

New comment by rjbwork in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

rjbwork — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:05:27 +0000

I don't think most people mind ads. Throw up an animated gif or a jpg banner that you serve from your domain. Nobody is blocking that.

What people dislike are mountains of javascript that track everything you do across broad swathes of the internet and then sell that to businesses and governments that are effectively engaging in mass psychological experiments on us.

New comment by rjbwork in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

rjbwork — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:56:39 +0000

The thing a lot of people leave out is that literally billions must die for this to happen. In some fully automated world everyone except for a few tens of thousands of the owner class and their technicians will be unneeded. And then what to do?