@Nfinitywaltz
Brilliant!
Absofuckinglutely brilliant.

@crazyeddie @GossiTheDog
Sigh. Yes, that makes perfect sense.

I remember reading commentary back in the 1980s to the effect that automating a (business) process doesn't make it BETTER, it just makes its existing failure modes happen FASTER, often with the result that the humans who were able to cope with those failures when they came at a human rate are now overwhelmed by them occurring at the speed of computer processing.

It was true then for paper-based accounting, and it's true now for collaborative software projects.

@keith_lawson @GossiTheDog

I keep pointing out to my coworkers that these clankers are trained on StackOverflow posts that contain code examples followed by "here's what I wrote, why doesn't it work?"

@GossiTheDog
Aaaahhh!
Who is giving clankers commit privileges to their repositories? Seems like an obvious failure of project management.

@wdlindsy
But but but... the freedom of choice!

(No, that makes zero sense to me either.)
Vaccinate yourself and your kids, people.
Pathogens have no fucks to give about your freedom of choice.

@Viss
The author writes that "the appropriate emotional response is terror."

I humbly submit that the appropriate physical response is levelling the datacenter, destroying the organization behind this effort, and ruthlessly persecuting the principals entirely off the Internet.

@Viss
What kind of nutball sets an AI agent loose on the Internet like this?
The whole notion has Terribly Bad Idea written all over it.

@MJmusicinears
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Seems way too good to be true.

@QasimRashid
Way ahead of you there. I've never installed, nor would ever consider, a Ring, Alexa, Siri, or other spy device, especially one connected to an evil megacorporation.

@heidilifeldman
The phrase "in Maine people don’t believe Susan Collins when she says ..." can easily and accurately be completed with a wildcard character.

I'll spare you the exact description, but among Mainers I know she has no credibility.

@darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross

Oh, you'll fly all right, but the landing's gonna hurt.

@inthehands
Personally, I block and spam-report EVERY political text I receive, no matter who the sender claims to be.
1. I've never given any political organization permission to text my number (which I've never given out in the first place, so they're database-scraping to get it), and
2. It's trivially easy to spoof the origin of text messages, so I have zero confidence these folks are who they claim to be.

I directly support people and organizations *I choose* (and heaven knows they needn't be perfect) and not whomever sends me the most, or the most appealing, text messages.

And I always pitch those "petitions" that come with the fundraising mailers. If they really care about my opinion, they won't couple it with a gimme letter.

@futurebird
I for one welcome our new communist toilet-maintaining overlords.