username223 (u/username223)

username223 commented on More Mac malware from Google search eclecticlight.co/2026/01/... · Posted by u/kristianp

goalieca · 10 hours ago

What we used to have, 15 years ago, was a really well functioning google. You could be lazy with your queries and still find what you wanted in the first two or three hits. Sometimes it was eerily accurate and figuring out what you were actually searching for. Modern google is just not there even with AI answers which is supposed to be infinitely better at natural language processing.

username223 · 5 hours ago

We used to have an endless supply of new search engines, so "SEO" was not viable. Then Google got a monopoly on search, DoubleClick reverse-acquired Google, and here we are.

username223 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

falloutx · a day ago

Then whats the smart dev plan, sit on the vibe coding casino until the bossman calls you into the office?

username223 · a day ago

Become a plutocrat, or be useful to plutocrats. I don't have the moral flexibility for the former, but plutes tend to care about their images, legacies, and mewling broods. A clever person can find a way to be the latter.

username223 commented on Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days red.anthropic.com/2026/ze... · Posted by u/lebovic

username223 · 2 days ago

"Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-developed 0-days" would be much more interesting and useful. Try harder, guys.

username223 commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77

wongarsu · 4 days ago

I spend most work days with robot dev software (claude code). If Copilot had a similar ability to do useful work with meaningful oversight I wouldn't mind spending time with it. Sadly it does not

username223 · 3 days ago

That's different: you're using bots to create software that someone finds useful, so you're entirely on the producer end.

People using Copilot 365 are on both ends, both producing and being inundated with generated content. Sure, they can crank out 10x as many emails and slides, but they also have to deal with 10x as many incoming from their coworkers. They can of course use a bot for that, but then they're back where they started, but with errors.

username223 commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77

raincole · 4 days ago

> It is rather interesting how dead-focused Microsoft is on AI.

Yeah. Right now the <title> of office.com is:

> Microsoft 365 Copilot | Create, Share and Collaborate with Office and AI

Microsoft 365 Copilot... what a product name.

username223 · 4 days ago

> Microsoft 365 Copilot | Create, Share and Collaborate with Office and AI

That's some insight into Microsoft's brain rot, isn't it? "Imagine spending every day for the next year dealing with robot office software."

username223 commented on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been jakequist.com/thoughts/op... · Posted by u/jakequist

b1temy · 4 days ago

> ten years from now, people will look back at 2024-2025 as the moment Apple had a clear shot at owning the agent layer and chose not to take it

I don't pretend to know the future (nor do I believe anyone else who claims to be able to), but I think the opposite has a good chance of happening too, and hype would die down over "AI" and the bubble bursts, and the current overvaluation (imo at least. I still think it is useful as a tool, but overhyped by many who don't understand it.) will be corrected by the market; and people will look back and see it as the moment that Apple dodged a bullet. (Or more realistically, won't think about it at all).

I know you can't directly compare different situations, but I wonder if comparisons can be made with dot-com bubble. There was such hype some 20-30 years ago, with claims of just being a year or two away from, "being able to watch TV over the internet" or "do your shopping on the web" or "have real-time video calls online", which did eventually come true, but only much, much, later, after a crash from inflated expectations and a slower steady growth.*

* Not that I think some claims about "AI" will ever come true though, especially the more outlandish ones such as full-length movies made by a prompt of the same quality made by a Hollywood director.

I don't know what a potential "breaking point" would be for "AI". Perhaps a major security breach, even _worse_ prices for computer hardware than it is now, politics, a major international incident, environmental impact being made more apparent, companies starting to more aggressively monetize their "AI", consumers realising the limits of "AI", I have no idea. And perhaps I'm just wrong, and this is the age we live in now for the foreseeable future. After all, more than one of the things I have listed have already happened, and nothing happened.

username223 · 4 days ago

> consumers realising the limits of "AI",

This is my guess for the demand side: most people will drift away as the novelty wears off and they don't find it useful in their daily lives. It's more a "fading point" than a "breaking point."

From the investment/speculation side: something will go dramatically against the narrative. OpenAI's attempted "liquidity event" of an IPO looks like WeWork as investors get a look at the numbers, Oracle implodes in a mountain of debt, NVidia cuts back on vendor financing and some major public players (e.g. Coreweave) die in a fire. This one will be a "breaking point."

username223 commented on Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features macrumors.com/2026/02/02/... · Posted by u/stalfosknight

hn92726819 · 6 days ago

> The AI features can be disabled entirely or individually, so users can pick and choose what they want to use

It sounds like you would want to switch off two of them and leave two of them on, no? How is that malicious compliance?

The master AI switch is for people that have moral issues with all AI, so they want all future features turned off.

username223 · 6 days ago

Mozilla is grouping a bunch of unrelated stuff in with the one thing people don't want.

username223 commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas

bobsmooth · 6 days ago

>they're getting an LLM to construct the specific tool they need in a couple of hours and then running that

This is something I really hope takes off for the common person. ChatGPT is perfect for bespoke little programs that do one thing and can be discarded after use.

username223 · 6 days ago

> bespoke little programs that do one thing and can be discarded after use.

That's my best-case scenario as well: LLMs are scripting languages for a broader audience. They just barely automate busywork, but are not a reliable foundation.

username223 commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

0x457 · 6 days ago

Real ID is/was needed because every state has different requirements to get one.

The whole debate is hilarious, you need one or two extra documents to get RealID. The exact same amount of time and trips to DMV.

username223 · 6 days ago

I had the option to get a "Real ID" the last time I renewed my driver's license, and did not. I forget which stupid bit of paper gave me trouble, but I had a valid passport (the Mother of All IDs), which was both insufficient to get a "Real ID" and sufficient to fly. It's a joke, a nuisance, and now a revenue source.