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“Security Research Slop” Accelerated by AI
The past few months have been increasingly frustrating. Previously, we received “vulnerability” reports from “security researchers” that, while often inaccurate, at least related tangentially to our service. Today, we are flooded with AI-generated long-form reports that discuss random features – features we neither have nor offer. The AI-generated slop is well-written and appears professional. Yet…
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Dunking Donut of AI
It is easy to criticize AI. It is easy to be contrarian and provoke an emotional response, especially when the narrative on “the Street” is highly disruptive and emotions run high. I try not to be one. I do use LLMs almost daily. With that preface, let me tell you a story. Over the weekend,…
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Visual Studio Code – Sans AI
Recent conversation on #HackerNews [1] make be aware of an interesting setting in the Visual Studio Code. Namely the chat.disableAIFeatures which allows to disable all AI features [2] of the editor. Not opposed to using AI assistance. I personally do use it as well. But I like to keep VSCode lighter and snappier for ad…