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Ahh yes we have two competing standards for that. One that requires packages be added manually through approval and is very slow to update.

Also a newer model that scans and evaluates and automatically imports but is comparatively poorly documented and is difficult to integrate with a bunch of internal packages. I used the newer model on a bunch of stuff recently and am regretting it for integration issues.

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If it makes you feel better I’m IT governance I set policy and audit stuff I don’t ā€œdoā€ anything lol I just say no allot

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Im back to chime in something positive:

My new boss/ friend has worked with a data researcher and an AI team to build a usable diagnostic software for these complex line of machines I’m now going to be servicing. It will be a godsend, he demoed it to me yesterday and it worked perfectly, I was pretty impressed. Will make my new job much easier once we all have access to it, and it will be constantly learning and improving from us using it he says.

Also ChatGPT helped me figure out which car to get as my work car that fits within the parameters of my companies reimbursement program. I’m at the dealer now waiting for them to finish detailing it lol

So you get a couple passes from me, fancy thinking rocks

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Anyone tried Clawdbot yet and let it take over their computer?

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Interesting.

Honestly I can see some value out of this. In an enterprise setting it’s a big no especially in the federal system integrator space sense where DoD (DoW) standards simply can’t allow such access.

However I could see this in medium and smaller sized businesses where there aren’t big data security governance issues (got to exclude those health providers with pesky PII and HIPPA stuff.)

I’ll note I’ve been super negative on AI overall but I do see AI in chat, automation and everything else eventually becoming as intertwined into our lives as the internet it’s self and not even notice it or think about it.

I do think the current players will mostly lose especially the ones with lots of exposure but just like in the internet boom there will be winners and performers that sweep in and fill the void once a correction does hit and the. Become a major part of our existence.

Heck I can even see crypto being regulated and existing in some form longer after I’m gone I just don’t think the current instance of unregulated rug pull fest Wild West is anything more than ponzy schemes with other names that will eventually all consolidate away when banks and governments decide to get heavily involved

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I think one major difference between the internet bubble and AI is that AI is being treated as essentially a war time deployment race by the government and thus the largest players will likely be deemed too big to fail, just like the big banks are. Either way, as you said, if there is a bubble that pops it’ll have just laid the groundwork for the future same as the internet.

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I mean I see what you mean to an extent. The railroads, highways and dark fiber projects all had military respects to them as well but the ai war is more like the space race to an extent. Whoever is first gets moon so to speak. Only difference is there is real economic and life impact as well so it’s almost a combination of motive and drive like the Cold War driven space race with the infrastructure build out that’s on par or larger than any previous major infrastructure build out of its kind.

I agree some major firms will get bailouts but with the current debt ceiling while we can bail them all out and just print till the interest payment on national debt is larger than our military spending I imagine we will hit a wall if we do that and some will be allowed to fail out if pragmatism.

Personally I don’t see open ai (gpt) surviving long term more than likely it becomes part of copilot as part of Microsoft in the end.

That’s not investment advice just an educated guess based on current situations

They are going to revalue the gold holdings and start issuing bitcoin bonds to enable more printing.

Unrelated, but I gotta say something.

Has anyone else noticed people have seemingly given up on creatively naming things? No more idioms, or metaphors. No creative alliterations or anything?

I’ve noticed a lot of different examples, but today’s may be the best. I watched a documentary on Netflix today called, ā€œSecret Mall Apartmentā€

What’s it about you ask?

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I hope it about the lizard people that run the government or frogs

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Well, I watched the whole thing.

So they musta threw in some reptilian stuff When I wasn’t paying attention. You know, subliminal envenoming.

Plus with the lizard takeover and Somali beef jerky taking up all their time, you think they’d have to be paying people overtime to make all this snow.

Oops, What I meant to say was, ā€œall glory to our reptilian leadersā€

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Brandon, can I ask ya a value question. Here’s The End. Prelude, I’m pretty sure first run NMTBS whaddya think value might be?

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No idea ask grok

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A couple of interesting articles…

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I agree with the vibe coding experience he describes, but all I (and millions of other people) need is a hallucinogenic plane that accomplishes a task and it seems to be great at creating that. I’m not trying to vibe code a bridge.

Hot take, but I find it ironic that he uses a bridge as an example considering software developers are the only ones who call themselves ā€œengineersā€ without any formal training or credentials. I would face criminal prosecution if I did that in my field.

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True that for your last point. We kind of oversell ourselves.

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I get called a cybersecurity engineer…. Tech in general makes up silly names. I think it’s leadership trying to make us sound valuable when selling contracts and services…

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