Posts by RainingCatFivesAndDogs

How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach

Cloudflare sent out an email to affected accounts, and also added a banner after login. That was a nice touch. Their email says they used Drift for a chat bot. Seems like a very expensive price to pay for tech so many technical folks dislike anyway. They say that anything in my support case history should be considered compromised.

Unfortunately if you’re not a Pro, Business, or Enterprise customer currently, you can’t follow their instructions to see what data was compromised (which requires logging into your account and accessing the support portal). You just get directed to a support article that basically says you have to pay them to access your support history, even if you used to be a paying customer.

I guess “pay up to see what we lost because we so desperately needed a chat bot” didn’t read as well so they didn’t put it in the email.

Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash

Re: An unfortunate turn of events

Yeah, this isn’t the best reporting. The article frames a technical result as the byproduct of tangentially related interactions. The email thread where Linus told Overstreet to pound sand was a different exchange. That also touched on Kent’s abrasive interpersonal style, but also pointed out his attempt at merging a bunch of large changes on his own schedule and more or less ignoring (again) the process and time demands from other maintainers and Torvalds. Some of those code changes touched code outside BCacheFS.

GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

There is a prevailing (and IMHO perverse) mentality in the Big Tech companies that boils (the oceans) down to "we just made the thing, what others do with it and what results isn't our problem." This of course sidesteps having to deal with questions that aren't code level. In upper levels, that mentality also exists, and hand waves away the negative side effects of technology as "externalities" that are outside the scope of their business to deal with. "Those are societal questions" they'll claim.

This is just handwavery in service of making as much money as possible, consequences for others or the Earth be damned. They demonstrably just do not care about their negative impact on anything.

They keep saying that.

This isn’t the first time (nor the last) we see a CEO with a vested interest in AI claiming that it will replace senior developers, and that the “good” ones are all already relying on AI to develop software.

They keep saying that. Of course that doesn’t make it true. Did anyone else witness the waste of electricity that was the senior .NET devs trying to get Copilot on GitHub to develop on the .NET codebase? It couldn’t generate code that passed the tests, so it “fixed” that by rewriting the test to always pass.

Every senior developer I know either isn’t permitted to use any currently available AI to generate code at work, or they’ve given up on it because it’s essentially the equivalent of babysitting a junior developer who can’t *actually* learn from their mistakes in the moment. Many of them already have actual humans to mentor.

Remember the source. Github is Microsoft, and Microsoft is desperately hoping to justify the amount of cash and headcount they’re burning through to fund AI.