Yup. If their backups (if they even had any) were this available to a rando with a single ssh key, it’s lucky they got wiped by an insider threat instead of ransomware.

Another day, another company that hooked up the random text generator to production and lost their entire prod db and backups: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

Cue the long drag (https://x.com/amyngyn/status/1072576388518043656)

But also, damn, the random text generator did not “go rogue”, it generated text, randomly!

Is there a more generalized form of “weird hill to die on but at least you’re dead”? Because a new-to-me way for too-rich people to end their gullible lives has emerged https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/

As a pal remarks, finally they found a novel way to use the blockchain for drugs.

Good news for a change: https://pitchfork.com/news/bandcamp-announces-ban-on-ai-music/

It’s no comfort that an acquaintance who works at a slop company says they’d been doing that for years now. That surely makes it fine then.

I’ve never seen a more compelling reason to enforce strict and short retention rules for every corp communication medium, holy shit https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/

I hate knowing so many of these clowns in person (or thinking I know them, Jesus fucking Christ) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-staffers-horrified-insane-plan

Is it their next model that tbey swear isn’t vaporware but no! It is too dangerous to release into the world because it’ll find too much insecure code or whatever.

Aphyr weighing in with an ai position post:

Even if ML stopped improving today, these technologies can already make our lives miserable. Indeed, I think much of the world has not caught up to the implications of modern ML systems—as Gibson put it, “the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet”.

For my own services I’m aiming for .999999% of uptime

You just gotta appreciate that the most deterministic part of the code base is the predatory lootbox system.

Hold on now, the uptime number contains two digits that are nines! The image itself has four nines in total!

This thread by Johnny reading (skimming on a phone, hah) through it is really good.

If only literally any human with context and a small screen to look at the bigger picture was involved with decisions around taking this to production, it would … still be bad but only on a societal level.

Heh. Who goes AI?

Never love the need for these parlor games, but it’s a good one.

Ah, of course! I come from a corp culture where co-workers were also called customers (“users” actually but you know)

Yeah, almost the entirety of use cases for genai chatbots is contempt for one’s customers.

I’m like 60% sure he will self-incinerate when exposed to sunlight

My heart goes out to my fleeting online acquaintance who’s seemingly but reliably two years too late to hype a trend. 2024 it was blockchain/cryptocurrencies that he tried pushing, now he’s saying AI technology companies are here to stay.

Somebody’s gotta buy the reverse reverse Cramer index I guess.

I’m still happy with Pushover. Hasn’t changed in a decade (and a half?! Been using that since 2012, damn), works really pretty well.

It’s not self-hosted but when there are push notification services on the path, nothing really is.