EnshittifAIcation

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

EnshittifAIcation

Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.

EnshittifAIcation

Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.

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[rootmoose@mstdn.ca]

@stefano Obviously if you'd stop pushing back and just put '42' in the configs everything would be golden.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@RootMoose exactly!

[as400@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano

I'm constantly wondering why weren't CEOs and Managers replaced by LLMs ?
Especially considering the fact how stupid some of them are

[michel@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano it's sad and it seems it will get (far) worse before it gets better

[oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@as400 @stefano because they've convinced the owners that they're necessary to the business and the owners wouldnt degrade themselves by talking to non executive staff

[as400@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@oxyhyxo @stefano

I think you touched the real problem here.
Big corpos have no owners. They have shareholders. Who care only about revenue.

[nobody@mastodon.acm.org]

@stefano
I'm sorry I can't so that, Dave

[jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano

> if they're so convinced that AI is better than senior professionals, why don't they replace the bosses with AI

yesterday they announced an engineering co-manager who's a custom agent that tells you priorities and fields request for the real manager. this is an isolated experiment.

i'm staying far away from that one.

[jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@lain @stefano

> oh ye of little faith

i've gotta have faith..

i just don't want a clone of a smug director who practices the ancient dark art of security-theater.

[qwertz@defcon.social]

@stefano

Frederic Thevenet (@fred@fthevenet.eu)

Hi software developers! Quick question, especially for those of us most keen to indulge in those sweet, sweet company  provided encouraged mandated Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT subscriptions: you do remember the race to "pivot to the cloud", right? How everything had to be moved to AWS or Azure or whatnot yesterday, or we would all be left behind? And you also remember how, a few years down the line, after we'd done exactly as asked, an alarmed CFO would come down on us urging to slash those goddamn AWS bills by half, or else? All the while somehow keeping the same level of production and quality with the on-premise infra gone for good and the team "right-sized" by 10~20%? "Doing more with less", all that bullshit? How the fuck do you think this whole "let's all voluntarily deskill ourselves and set budgets on fire so a text extruder can pretend to do our job for us" thing is supposed to pan out, exactly?

fthevenet.eu (social.fthevenet.eu)

[angel@triptico.com]

Shudder. I'm glad I no longer work in IT because everything is a fucking garbage fire.

Great article!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@angel thanks!