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A manager is not going to handle all the nitty gritty details, that an engineer knows, fine say, they can ask a LLM to make a web portal.

Does he know about SQL injection? XSS?

Maybe he knows slightly about security stuffs and asks the LLM to make a secure site with all the protection needed. But how the manager knows it works at all? If you figure out there's a issue with your critical part of the software, after your users data are stolen, how bad the fallback is going to be?

How good a tool is also depends on who's using it. Managers are not engineers obviously unless he was an engineer before becoming a manager, but you are saying engineers are not needed. So, where's the engineer manager is going to come from? I'm sure we're not growing them in some engineering trees

It's like saying "I want a bridge" and then expect steel beams and cables to appear (or planks and ropes) and that's all you need. The user needs are usually clear enough (they need a way to cross that body of water or that chasm), but the how is the real catch.

In the real world, the materials are visible so people have a partial understanding on how it gets done. But most of the software world is invisible and has no material constraints other than the hardware (you can't use RAM that is not there). If the hardware is like a blank canvas, a standard web framework is like a draw by the numbers book (but one with lines drawn by a pencil so you can erase it easily). Asking the user to code with LLM is like asking a blind to draw the Mona Lisa with a brick.

There are already companies that exist to audit the security of codebases programmatically so this will just be part of the flow

Spoiler: they're basically snake oil. Or at least they are grossly insufficient.

For now they are insufficient, I wouldn’t call them snake oil they solve a real problem with real solutions and will only become more accurate

Who's going to verify it's accurate?

Ah, "It's work on my computer" edition of LLM.

Yeah! I use JetBrains AI assistant sometimes, which suddenly showing only blank window, nothing else. So, not getting anything out of it. But I can see my credits are being spent!

IF I was totally dependent on it, I would be in trouble. Fortunately I am not.

And, the end result being devastation of forests, ecosystems, animal life, fast track climate change etc.

Implying that efficient agriculture is destroying the planet is a wild take

Is it not?

I don't think tractors are destroying the planet, no

First, it's not destroying the planet, because the planet will chug along just fine, but it's making the planet inhabitable for us.

Dynamite is an efficiency tool, but in the wrong hand, it's used in ways that are not good.

And, greedy people using the efficiency tools without caring for the environment are devastating the planet's ecosystem, e.g. Amazon Rain forest

And in similar vein, our "Tech bros" are using technology for their satisfy their greed, which is resulting in loss of our privacy, democracy, and force fed of their agenda.

They will prefer to band up with Google, and rip us off.

https://www.svgrepo.com/ is another one that I have found very useful.

D'oh sudo shutdown

Linux: I give a damn about you're super critical nuclear reactor loading up, this computer is going down NOW

Systemd: “A stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000 (1s / 2min)”

Ctrl-Alt SysRQ, Pause, o (off) for that.

Well it is still shutting down

It would actually be sudo shutdown -h now. Otherwise it waits a few minutes for the control rods to drop before it shuts off the coolant control.

That still does stuff like unmounting filesystems (which can take a minute with snap, if they haven't fixed it), you can go further with the (rather unsafe) SysRq key "o", which tells the kernel to shut down without any preparation.

That's quite interesting, considering that -h flag is usually related to showing help.

They don't have to worry about PC segments, if there are no personal computes.

Ram price has sky rocketed, and probably out of hand of most of the people Same with GPU, HDD price is increasing, so is SSD.

How many people can build a new PC next year? And Amazon CEO just said it out loud about cloud computers.

Even though they'll take my PC out of my cold dead hands. But as it seems they want to get rid of Desktops.

Microsoft isn’t going to declare death of the PC and pivot to “cloud computers”/virtual desktops (again) just because of temporary RAM/SSD supply shortages lol

> And Amazon CEO just said it out loud about cloud computers.

And Google said Stadia would have “negative latency”

They will do whatever that will let them get more money.

Who said they cares about consumers? There's also GeForce Now.

> How many people can build a new PC next year?

Why does it matter, my 15 year old laptop is still working fine. And if it goes down, there is still the hardware produced in the remaining 14 years.

Not the op, I've been gaming on Linux for over 10 years I think, I have an rtx2080, and using Arch Linux, Nvidia support has gotten better by a lot.

Steam performs exceptionally well. Initially there were issues, but I haven't face any for really long time now.

I don't play mp games though. So that part I can't say much.

Very useful info; much appreciated!