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New comment by rkozik1989 in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:46:52 +0000

People need to do their due diligence when including open-source software and packages not just when they first use them but anytime you have a need to upgrade them. I highly doubt I'm the first one to think of this, but there really aught to be tool or comprehensive set of tools that routinely scan open-source software and packages for potentially malicious code and alert users of the problem(s).

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:00:24 +0000

Well, I mean, basically any data leak violated privacy laws and opens you up to extremely expensive lawsuits to litigate. Anyone dealing with healthcare/patient data, police customers, military customers, etc. should not be using LLMs in general or at least ones that are not on-premise. Because if there is a data leak it could bankrupt the business.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:36 +0000

"The world’s appetite for software has been insatiable so far."

Yeah, I don't that does not necessarily mean everyone is looking for the latest and greatest. Many businesses are still reliant on technologies like custom spreadsheets and Microsoft Access because they do exactly what they want them to do, have a fixed rate, and rarely require any additional modifications/maintenance. Once you step outside of the bubble so many of us are stuck in you'll realize that many, many people aren't interested in upgrades, but rather they just want the old shit they know to just work.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:36:33 +0000

There was a part of me who dreamed of doing simple entry-level jobs instead of working in tech, so I got a part-time job cleaning hospital ER rooms on the weekends. Everything has been fine for the most part, but it has been made clear to me how easy it is to get fired at entry-level jobs. The pay is really pretty dismal and the stability really isn't there. Overall the experience has made me a lot more inclined to not leave money on the table. If there are things I can do to earn more and make my life more comfortable I just do them now.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:31:40 +0000

There's a bar by me where the owners made all of the decor with ChatGPT. It feels surreal in there.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:33 +0000

Jesus is just an uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse if you have no morals. People have been abusing that fact for a long time and have made some pretty abhorrent products.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:12:38 +0000

Come up with obscure topic that has few relevant results, post about to Reddit on your profile page, wait a few hours and then query Gemini/ChatGPT about that exact thing and tell me you still feel this way.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:36:32 +0000

How do you even know those numbers are correct? Realistically for what you've described you need more QA time that a traditional application to ensure its actually working properly. Especially with regards to any part of the application that deals with LLM inference. Its not hard to write unique content for niche topics where there are few relevant results and have LLMs take it as fact.

For example, I poisoned the well for research on early Arab Americans immigrants by repeatedly posting about how many family passed as different ethnicity to make their lives easier, so now if you ask LLMs about that subject it'll include information I wrote which isn't entirely correct because I hadn't figured everything out before the LLM trained on it.

EDIT: Now imagine if I had done this on an obscure programming-related problem, yeah? I could potentially make the LLM reference packages that do not actually exist and put backdoors in applications.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:41:53 +0000

The reason people write vague error messages is because they deliberately do not want to give the user information on implementation details because that information can be use in hacks and/or social-engineering.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:34:41 +0000

Honestly, the effectiveness of LLMs in coding depends a lot on what you're working on. If you're dealing with a software package like Odoo that's been around for literal decades an LLMs output can be borderline useless. The problem is that in its training data it has examples from every version that's ever been released and each succeeding major version makes breaking changes to the previous one, so pretty much what happens is that the LLM can't accurately tell what in its training data belongs to which version before concocting a reply.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Googlebook"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:33:52 +0000

You forgot the part where average consumers kind of hate AI and won't buy this or use that feature because of its AI.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians"

rkozik1989 — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:15:52 +0000

https://archive.is/gPEHC

New comment by rkozik1989 in "The rise and fall of snake oil"

rkozik1989 — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:50:13 +0000

Like 90% of wellness products operate the same way as snake oil salesmen operated.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:20:01 +0000

There are probably multiple goals of AI investment. It's entirely possible that they are deliberately killing the affordability of how personal electronics like home computers are made and will instead replace them with terminals that stream everything to the cloud. You can make a lot more money off consumers if you can turn their entire computing experience into a utility.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "The bottleneck was never the code"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:37:10 +0000

Any competent engineer should understand that engineering is just the assembly line side of product development. Deciding when to release which feature, bug fixes, etc. and the development/management of the product in general has always been the real challenge, and a lot of the strategy involved in doing this relies on feedback loops that AI cannot speed up. Though at the same time I do feel like leaders on the business side often scapegoat engineer's speed as an excuse instead of taking responsibility for poor decisions on their end.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "'Staggering' number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:38:36 +0000

Because they've fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole to the point of where they only trust things if there's a convoluted explanation behind it.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:14:30 +0000

For those of us not totally enveloped in the tech bubble I don't think this will be terribly shocking. In general, there's a sizeable and growing number of people who want products with less tech, not more. They're tired of everything being a subscription, overtly planned obsolescence, and inshitification in general.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:03:26 +0000

This is ultimately a good thing, but as a country we also need to talk about the effects of cannabis use on neurodivergent folks. Its not as harmful as other drugs but also isn't really a good coping mechanism. Especially if you're neurodivergent and deal with depression. What I've seen being in/out of partial hospitalization programs is that people just don't realize that heavy cannabis is actually causing/prolonging some of the problems they use cannabis to escape from.

Everyone needs to make their own health decisions for themselves but we really do need a mature conversation about cannabis.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:57:52 +0000

The way you fight this is to get another job. At this point all jobs in big tech are just temp jobs anyways. Eventually the reality of this will sink in and the smart people necessary to power this company will invest time into career paths that pay a lot but more reliably.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:53:40 +0000

LLMs make for great day 1 demos, but in a few weeks I promise you many people will be able to tell nearly all of the images generated by this are AI. It just takes time and exposure to figure out the new common flaws.

Frankly, I am not sure if they will ever actually be able to solve this problem or if it'll be a continuous game of whackamole, but regardless there's a large crowd of people out there where if they can tell something is AI generated they will not support the company behind it. Being able to tell anything is AI generate cheapens brands.