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I remain extremely bullish on the value of LLMs and bearish on the the average (especially non-tech) company's ability to extract that value. Dysfunction in internal process and inability to identify clear goals will be a massive blunting instrument. That describes more places than not.
lol they just skipped the 'develop an open weight model' portion of this attack
If You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your Computer
AI hallucinations are a remarkably easy vector for cyber criminals, who can anticipate hallucinations with hidden malware.
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@jslaker.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere's an LLM threat vector I think about a lot that looks something like this: A. Compromise popular open dependency B. Release model with weights subtly tweaked to prefer compromised version of dependency C. Wait for agents to add dependency to real software. Let it sit dormant until needed.
The STi is afflicted with Carolina squat because there aren't enough daylight hours to get the rear done.
what's particularly maddening about Anthropic loudly screaming about the strategic threat of LLMs is that the second-order effects of that are far more immediate than anything to do with LLMs. the second "TSMC will spike the fabs" doesn't mean immediate economic apocalypse, we're in for a wild time
wherein Dario yet again reinforces to the CCP that they should consider LLMs a national strategic asset. surely this couldn't possibly result in China further throwing the weight of the state behind their efforts, removing whatever leverage the west had
Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models
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needed to put my feelings into meme form so I don't yell at people the answer rhymes "alantir."
Being forced to use both again for the first time in a couple of months due to work: Claude Code is a bad harness and Opus is a weaker, more expensive model than other options at the buffet. It's painful going back. There's a lot of Stockholm Syndrome out there.
One thing about the current moment is that it's made clear that the stubborn, arrogant insistance that your expertise in one field is instantly transferrable to others is not a malady limited to engineers. Being bad at something new is the natural order, not an indication that the thing sucks.
hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 4w agoThis borders on misinformation, and if nothing else, this kind of incuriosity is going to keep you from figuring out which of your students are using LLMs to cheat
This screenshot is the result of receiving a fundraising email from the DNC for Graham Platner on June 29, a week before this news broke. GTFO with the martyrdom complex.
The Onion@theonion.com · 4w agoDNC Vows To Replace Graham Platner With Establishment Rapist
A common trope in analysis of manufacturing capability during WW2 is that German designs required time consuming skilled per-part fitting. American manufacturing OTOH had embraced "lol, machine go brrr to +/- 0.1" and could spit out millions of completely interchangeable parts in the same time.
@jslaker.bsky.social · last mo.the entire engineering world outside of software is built around probabilistic outcomes! mechanical drawings include allowable tolerances because even the best CNC in the world is never going to produce parts exactly to dimension. any moderately complex mechanism has to account for stackup. etc
Rough numbers for easy math: SWE w/ a total comp of $250k Only 10 days PTO yielding 250 working days = $1k/day cost If the additive value of a SWE to total output isn't greater than tossing +$1k/day in the token budget... The bleak side of a Business Decision is barreling toward a lot of folks
the phrase "distillation attack" is, itself, a product of incumbent marketing. it's something the frontier labs dislike; a system behaving in a way inherent to that system doesn't make an attack, though.
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · last mo.This week's Seriously Risky Business looks at distillation attacks against U.S. AI models, last year's hack of Jaguar Land Rover, a Europol operation aimed at taking down cybercrime operations, and more. Read the newsletter, from @tom.risky.biz.
the core dilemma I have with LLMs is that they're infinite sidequest-generators. one year ago: every available OSS project management app has at least one showstopper for my environment. guess I'll have to adapt my wants to fit. now: lol, guess i'm building a project management app now
stumbled across a video of The Offspring playing a Smash 30th anniversary show and something that'd never occurred to me about an album I grew up on: a lot of the lyrics on that album (and in their discography generally) look pretty reactionary viewed through a 2026 lens. huge cultural shift.
Polytoken 0.2.0 is publicly released! Even though there isn't all of a website yet. An entire thirteen of people have been using it all day and nobody has yelled at me yet. You can get it at docs.polytoken.dev/installation (forgive the mess; WIP) or you just `brew install polytoken/tap/polytoken`!
I am deeply, personally disappointed that Travis Pastrana is participating in Trump's Big Spectacle. But, man, a lot of people on here who would vociferously deny it sure are using it as an excuse to let their classist-holier-than-thou flag fly. Dirt bikes are redneck shit that's *beneath* them.
Great piece from @radleybalko.bsky.social. It's notable that a key insight here is that the Afrikaner pseudo-refugees, when subjected to the same conditions historically provided to actual refugees, are like 'wtf this sucks.'
How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees
As Weiss rebuilds CBS News and 60 Minutes in her own image, her flagship publication continues to whitewash some of Trump's cruelest policies
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Growing up, if I wanted to have a car it meant being able to fix it myself. I make good money now. I should pay someone to work on my cars. It's not worth my time. Then I do things like go out and buy a transmission jack and spend an entire weekend changing a clutch out myself.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo agosomething that always throws off my economic instincts is how often it's cheaper to replace something than repair it.
There's an LLM threat vector I think about a lot that looks something like this: A. Compromise popular open dependency B. Release model with weights subtly tweaked to prefer compromised version of dependency C. Wait for agents to add dependency to real software. Let it sit dormant until needed.
play modern naval warfare. accidentally run virginia class aground. not ideal. spend next 30 minutes flinging harpoons at already crippled target from beached whale submarine. fuck you boat.
regardless of the stance on AI, this is deliberately and consciously distributing malware. once you've demonstrated willingness to do that for *any* reason, there's no way to know this will be the only reason. congratulations, you've just turned your library into an explicit supply chain risk.
Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) · Issue #708 · jqwik-team/jqwik
Hello jqwik team, While running our test suite under mvn test in 1.10.0, we observed a string appearing between Surefire's test summary and the [INFO] Results: header that gave us pause: [INFO] Tes...
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This thread is fascinating because the neutral positioning has attracted a lot of people who don't realize how far behind the curve they are right now. They're arguing about what to have for dinner while the ship is pointed straight at an iceberg.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo agoso explain to me, a computer dummy, why we’re not just inevitably going to move towards writing everything in Rust
there are good reasons to run open weight models, but I'll never understand why people insist on convincing themselves that it's financially wise. a DC operator amortizing across customers while paying commercial electric rates in a commodity market that trends to TCO beats your cost every time.
This is the problem with this current discourse. I can pretty much guarantee you that none of these people know what a datacenter actually looks like. If you've ever been to downtown ATL, you have driven past one of those 200+ datacenters without realizing it.
For me, Bluesky is watching real life professional policy wonks get into protracted arguments where their interlocutor is consistently, intentionally misreading their statements in increasingly bad faith ways over a 30 post deep thread while having 250 followers and a furry PFP. It's magic.
