Worked for famous Japanese data platform for a few years. The Japanese engineers were collegial but some who didn't come in to the office were actually Hikikomori focused on very narrow things and were very nitpicky about details that wouldn't have ultimately mattered. Those that came into the Tokyo office lived to work and I saw people regularly sleeping at their desk after having stayed out all night for obligatory whiskey outing with colleagues and arriving at the office at 6 am as expected. The San Fran office was the opposite, very sloppy standards people, getting in at noon and staying up late to meet deadlines. The impedence mismatch between the two environments was almost unbearable.

So is this a backtrack or clarification on their original stance? Do I need to be worried about skynet killing grandma?

You are citing negative metrics. The reality is that companies only care about positive metrics: increase marginal revenue by 30%

That's regardless of the lip service they pay to cost cutting or risk reduction. It will only get worse, in the AI economy it's all about growth.

This would just record a lot of me cursing at and calling the AI an idiot.

"Power doesn’t corrupt. It reveals." — Robert Caro

Great follow up, i agree

If ever I saw something that made me want to move to a log cabin the woods and never touch a computer again, this is it

Lol, does any of this matter anymore with AI coding? It was hard to get people to care about this sort of thing before ai coding, now its impossible. People in a few years will be coding without even knowing what unix is.

Ok, why don't you work on getting 3.0 out of preview first? 10 min response time is pretty heinous

I agree, according to Googles terms you are not allowed to use the preview model for production use cases. And 3.0 has been in preview for a loooong time now :(

I don't think this argument makes much sense. If you are running down hill towards a cliff then saying that adding a cart to speed up the process doesn't give the cart moral blameworthiness is an unhelpful observation. You can still chose to stop running down the hill or to not get on the cart.

Exactly! Was going to make a similar comment if I didn't already see one. People keep saying things like this and drives me fuckin' nuts. It's not that there are no positives but I don't see how the positives outweigh the negatives.

The irony is that the LLMs are trained on stack overflow and should inherit a lot of those traits and errors.

Yeah, but they don't inherit their rules and attitude.

Really, if we could apply some RLHF to the Stack Overflow community, it would be doing a lot better.