Terrasque

https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA

When I had to get up to speed on a new language, it was very helpful. It’s also great to write low to medium complexity scripts in python, powershell, bash, and making ansible tasks. That said I’ve been programming for ~30 years, and could have done those things myself if I needed, but it would take some time (a lot of it being looking up documentation and writing boilerplate code).

It’s also nice for writing C# unit tests.

However, the times I’ve been stuck on my main languages, it’s been utterly useless.

I’m just waiting for Mexico to rename usa to “Little Mexico”

I feel like AI would make something more coherent than that.

Russia

So if it was a white, straight AI guy everything would be fine?

And then it doesn’t work on one VM and it takes you three days to figure out that VM had a slightly different version of a library and that makes the app segfault.

More like old app design. It’s much harder (but of course fully doable) to have a memory leak in modern languages.

I just send back and forth plain gibberish. Good luck breaking that!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher)

Or a deck of cards

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-projects/

It’s already under BSD license

With chatgpt’s new web search it’s pretty good for more specialized searches too. And it links to the source, so you can check yourself.

It’s been able to answer some very specific niche questions accurately and give link to relevant information.

Or a few more gb of LLM?

https://y.yarn.co/2a4fe37e-ed9d-448b-af12-48a7a3202fa5_text.gif

Careful, if you spend 8 hours playing with your deck you might go blind

Hah. Snake oil vendors will still sell snake oil, CEO will still be dazzled by fancy dinners and fast talking salesmen, and IT will still be tasked with keeping the crap running.

This has a lot of “I can use the bus perfectly fine for my needs, so we should outlaw cars” energy to it.

There are several systems, like firewalls , switches, routers, proprietary systems and so on that only has a manual process for updating, that can’t be easily automated.

That’s because they don’t see the letters, but tokens instead. A token can be one letter, but is usually bigger. So what the llm sees might be something like

• st
• raw
• be
• r
• r
• y

When seeing it like that it’s more obvious why the llm’s are struggling with it

In many cases the key exchange (kex) for symmetric ciphers are done using slower asymmetric ciphers. Many of which are vulnerable to quantum algos to various degrees.

So even when attacking AES you’d ideally do it indirectly by targeting the kex.

I generally agree with your comment, but not on this part:

parroting the responses to questions that already existed in their input.

They’re quite capable of following instructions over data where neither the instruction nor the data was anywhere in the training data.

They’re completely incapable of critical thought or even basic reasoning.

Critical thought, generally no. Basic reasoning, that they’re somewhat capable of. And chain of thought amplifies what little is there.