Slightly ancient virtual worlds developer, views are my own, et cetera.
Sydney, New South Wales
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Adam Frisby retweeted
personal take: as much as I'm techno optimist, I genuinely dislike it when people on X dunk on regular folk for criticizing AI
a company has told everyone they will lose their jobs, many companies did layoffs, people have families. on top of saying all the layoffs are necessary so AI proves econ value until it cures the cancer or saves planet but they did anything but those so far
you might be making a ton from AI, many don't. some people also found a ton of purpose from their work which is gone. I'm not saying we should console people but maybe also don't dunk on a frustrated mass? the field is already detested and this is not helping
Adam Frisby retweeted
i dont think vibecoded software is really much more bug-prone than any other software. almost all complex code is buggy if you havent tested it. theres just a selection bias, where more often vibecoded projects are created by people not interested in testing and maintenance
Adam Frisby retweeted
I pointed a webcam at the screen of a new surface8 with snapdragon x2, with a USB KVM also plugged into the surfce8. Then let Grok Bot on one machine iterate on bringup up arch linux. Over the course of three weeks now it has brought up arch linux. Decompiled the drivers from the windows partition which it needed and reworked them to run on arch linux. I now have a surface 8 with snapdragon x2 running with hardware acceleration and everything working.
Personally I think this is why AI was turned into a controversy. It dissolves the boundaries which the big corporate status quo need to stay in place. Lets individual compete with entire corporate departments. Someone could set up a warehouse with dozens of different devices in an iteration loop on an LLM to patch every little inane driver bug and quirk on Linux and make some linux distro the most stable of any OS to ever exist.
Adam Frisby retweeted
Art has layers like programming. Not doing the lowest layer manually doesn't mean it's not art. You don't have to hand paint every letter to be a designer. You don't need to hand write ASM to be a programmer (a compiler or Codex can do that for you).
Miyamoto's thoughts on AI:
Came up with what I thought was an excellent way to optimise bloom for tiled GPUs.
Turns out Carmack invented the exact same thing in Doom 3 from 2002.
Adam Frisby retweeted
The other day when I posted about software metamorphosing this is a large part of what I meant.
Formal verification will become essential for security and cheap via AI, but it also unlocks fundamentally different capabilities in how software is built & operated at scale.
New on our Frontier Red Team blog: using Claude to formally verify software at large scale.
Formal verification can prove that code is free of certain bugs, but historically it has only been feasible for small codebases (or required a lot of expert time).
With AI models, however, this is beginning to change. In collaboration with @theoremlabs, we used Claude to prove security properties in over one hundred real-world open-source libraries over the span of a few weeks.
Read our research in full here: anthropic.com/research/forma…
Adam Frisby retweeted
Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
Adam Frisby retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Adam Frisby retweeted
Why aren’t API keys all self-revokable ?
Perhaps I’m overlooking a basic issue with it, but I don’t think most keys being able to burn themselves would affect things.
An urgent notice from the Railway team
blog.railway.com/p/security-…
Adam Frisby retweeted
Personally I think the 'Anti-AI vs Pro-AI' is a dichotomy for idiots. It is like Unity vs Unreal arguments. The smarter alternative is specifically understanding what the technology is good at. Experimenting with it to have a clear objective sense of its current capabilities and limits. Keeping a finger on its pulse. Try to have a well-calibrated sense of where it's future may end up. Then meter in what can be good. Share some notes when you find something worthwhile.
Even if AI were to 'pop' it's not going to disappear. Even after the renowned dot com bubble popping there was still a clear Pre-DotCom and Post-DotCom era. It was an inflection point to a different mode. The popping is just when the hype and startups without substance all settle back to reality. Even after the popping, businesses and jobs disrupted by the web still did not return fully to what they were before.
Something the AI companies could be doing right now about the PHP exploit is flooding the internet with plausible but wrong PoC's. If attackers can't figure out what is real it might buy a few hours.
Adam Frisby retweeted
I think I have a good analogy for what's about to happen in cyber.
It's pitch dark. Always has been. And the world is dilapidated buildings and rats and maggots and other creepy-crawlies. The whole world.
And we just invented flashlights.
There's a real problem with the latest AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic: the moment you mention security, they turn into drooling idiots. "Run a security scan over the code you just wrote" permanently breaks your session. You have to fork first.
