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Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents

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Tavi

Yes, I mean why use things you expect to go wrong, often?

Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz

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Re: Fuck it

Yes it was getting a bit "Simon and Garfunkel" sound of silence for a while, let's just have that recession now switch off this low code no code AI promostituting and get back to learning and doing.

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B

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Re: Oracle

Ah forgot about this , don't think it's AI just that a big recession is looming.

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Re: Oracle

As the forces are merging , I would say that this is the right time for something new, and the IT jobs will be security cleared so UK jobs. Also there is no way to plan it as the forces merge is still undecided.

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Re: Oracle

Having worked on JDE and unravelling a system , I would say Oracle is a bit better than SAP , and this gives us time to understand a system when we are also merging all police forces, Oracle were helpful with unravelling JDE , and gave us , well me insight to how the ERP works, so I think it's a positive in the world of pretend SaaS and AI vibe coding, people will learn something as they have to.

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

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Re: Ofcom have an agenda to destroy all but MSM

Yes, can you cross post from linkedin , Facebook,x , insta, toktik to the reg now?

Or has the reg not went full enshitification yet?

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Linkedin

Is my source for social media and stories that never happened , it's like Facebook was when food posts were a thing, of course I have a job, and therefore am not on Facebook , sorry linkedin, anyone would think there's is a recession round the corner.

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

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Talks Pure Shite

To give it the Scottish angle, and good luck reviewing what you don't understand , mind you I'm retired now, but can still smell shite.

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

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Re: Shirley it's very simple

SalesForce has entered the discussion.

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Re: Strategically placed scapegoats

EY, Delliote, PwC will sign anything for cash ,and their AI will confirm it's ok

In the real world this is like letting Trump have full control of a war

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

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Head of AI given a GTA five-star wanted level, and respawned the org chart without them

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-take-two-lays-off-the-head-of-ai-and-unknown-number-of-team-members

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Re: Sure you want to admit that?

Better response than mine, just scrolled to it, and upvoted it

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Ah there we have it.

AI has allowed Ilegbodu to code in languages he doesn't yet know, such as Python, Bash, and Groovy.

But this context switching can get wearisome, he admitted. "At the end of the day, I'm actually kind of tired, because effectively, I spent the whole day talking to something."

So may as well be a chef then , with no understanding of heat, pectin etc ...

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

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Nokia

It was in the runes then!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33481217

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

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Hapsburg Code

I have AI code , I store it in GitHub, loads of it.

It's going to eat/breed with itself

Fair enough, enjoy.

SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth

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Re: SAP Meets Windows 11

Please upvote , better than I could ever with AI have put it, respect!

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Sweet

A familiar pivot: when the process falters, attention turns to something sweeter.

Shifting from ERP issues JDE or SAP ,to AI masks unresolved core instability.

I have seen this as poor data, fragile integrations, and inconsistent processes and they wonder why it undermine outcomes.

So AI with no technical knowledge how, essentially surface appeal over substance lets go with SaaS, so compounding risk.

Better to stabilise the base before refining what flows through it, it's not that hard , but you know this now.

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

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Find me an AI GEM!

Or your fired, wont work here, no bonus....

Guess im off then, as its usefull, but like my co-worked with ADHD cannot rely or trust it, is there AI Rittalin?

Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug

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"It looks like you're avoiding litigation. Would you like help?"

Why not use the new MicroSlop Backdoor Assistant - : "Compliance Bypass Assistant (Preview)"

Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric

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Re: So we need an Über-Standard?

We could call it ODBC , and let Enterprise Architects use it , so they could at least pretend that AI was not replacing them?

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Meh

So, who cares, let AI do it , I'm happy as a joiner now?

IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab

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AI needs to be more racist

That way it can replace these people , as currently it can talk forever on nothing and decide not much

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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Linedin

Seems to be doing well our of it, with the new LinkedIn influencers and it's use of AI on everything , and the candidates are exactly as their profiles describe them.

SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

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Re: Funny

Greg?...

Not old Greg ,just incase!

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Yep , and it's the locking that made us look first at azure services and functions, then the weather of knowledge on these and towards containerisation and maybe building an app that takes the 10% we use of everyone's SaaS , and making what we need , with actual developers, analysts and architects , savings are huge.

Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse

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Yes we already worked out the billing is changing from a licence to a "use" model, and tokenomics , we are escaping before we cannot afford it :)

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Devil

Fluffy Bear, Fluffy Mule, Fluffy Einstein , and "I want your soul"

In the world of SF, the fluffy things that always pre-empt a sale, and the fluffy bears to take away and the multiple enterprises that use the software as they have no dev team, just over inflated C - Suite and the twat that got sold the salesforce cocaine.

In reality what this means is Salesforce introducing Agent Work Units (AWUs) suggests a move toward usage-based billing tied to AI output, or anything the want to say is AI <-- Open your Fkn Eyes!

So now your going to be billed on:

Harder cost predictability vs traditional seat licences.

AI workloads scale non-linearly ,one automation loop can multiply token usage (Moltbot style)

Finance teams lose fixed budgeting; spend becomes +/- Fuck Knows

And this means your IT teams are

Pay for activity, not outcomes.

Over-automation can create hidden operational complexity, like a 10'000 javascript page

IT Governance teams must monitor AI behaviour constantly, talk me through your last positon , oh, never mind!

In the land of the Fluffy Bear this most certainly means

Layoffs

Target "ServiceNow"

Heavy AI Positioning

Then automation, tokens, AWUs, Slack integration, and ITSM all converge (Esp with ServiceNowt)

Workflows become tightly coupled to Salesforce AI.

Migration costs increase sharply.

Customers lose negotiating leverage at renewal.

Eggs in one Benioff

So my gut is saying they have just lost the SaasPocalypse, in so far as we are developing our own tooling now its got a lot cheaper, and moving away from vendor lock-in , as you should be, expect the stock to take a hit soon.

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

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Re: Human underlings can never be completely eliminated

Have my upvote sir! (or Madam) , throws upvote into ring!

Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

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Re: Sloppy

AI cannot do soapy tit wank , so .. oh sorry yes, I used co-pilot on this , sorry again!

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Clippy

I preferred clippy , not always right , but not afraid to say so, copilot will have you dangling your testicles in a jar as the internet says this is the way , it's not , most have taken their brain back.

Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

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Please provide your fingerprint

Well just back that up now to your cloud provider that you have authenticated and paid with.

Thanks ---> now look here,the shiny shiny be outraged...

Lemmings :)

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

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Hello fellow moltbots

Biy, you gonna learn ...

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

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Lie and leave

Yes it's doing well , our BA's agree (Checks job offer ):and I am off to pastures new and take my experience with me, don't fuck it up!

ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company

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ServiceNowt

As we say in Yorkshire

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

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Visual Basic

That's Java today , still useful...

Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users

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430'000'000 Bitcoin 695 Users x 620'000 Bitcoin, thought there was only 21 Million

Someone is Lying , this house of cars is over!

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

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\platform engineering

Basically old school Support https://platformengineering.org/

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

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The popular peoples front of Judea!

he City of Edinburgh Council's Development Management Sub-Committee.

I wonder where Edinburgh and Scotland is wasting taxpayers money?

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

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Re: I'll be back

I am older than I thought possible

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AstraZeneca

Had a project called AZGAURD , but it was for making people (Sorry Consumers) better, AFAIK.... has nothing to do with Valhalla (Where consumers went if it did not work)

, and AD was provided by Yggdrasil.

Oh its AI, nah its fucked!

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

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Upload your CV

Now write it again to fit our workflow.

Nah, bye, have the desperate!

Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

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Re: I doubt that will worry them.

Yeah but, they will say el-reg is lying to stop payment , pay or we shall encrypt your grandma!

DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day

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Facebook ++

It browses Facebook and finds comments by known associates a lot faster.

Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS

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Go

So

We get AI to write us the parts of a SaaS we need for our company , then use a strangler fig pattern to get rid of the expensive SaaS employ a few more Devs and infra / data peeps with the cash and carry on doing this , use LLM as a corporate grass (as it's trained on SaaS)..

I think we are in business Randolph.

AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say

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10 mins

If I logged in with compromised admin creds, I'd have a new admin in 30 seconds, this just sounds like someone that has no idea how to script an add user.

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

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CISO

Pointless over paid twats, AI , same.

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

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IT Angle

AI is free now

Can't see Chatgpt liking this one bit, now the advertising enshittification has heated up , and the UK unemployed are getting in on the game.

Turtles all the way down.

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die

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Holmes

HMRC staff are Capgem

I have noticed the staff being tuped out, or in to Capgemini for years from HMRC , so don't expect any groundbreaking stuff, just keeping the sausage factory going and introducing complexity like kubrenetes and docker to modified cots systems , not actually replacing anything, I see pega is still there and some outdated content management systems , yes id enshittify these pronto to ensure tenure.

Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps

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Big Brother

I'm sorry dave

Your accounts were compromised, do you want me to tell you how this can be avoided when you get some money?

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