David Gerard

this is what actual nuance about AI looks like - Dorian Taylor @doriantaylor@mastodon.social on how LLM coding is vaguely possible, but of limited usefulness for real work

https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-future/

> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

lol and - furthermore - lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

yt comment:

> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

oh this is interesting. layoffs are *not* boosting the share price recently, leading to an average 2% drop

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-is-no-longer-rewarding-job-cut-announcements-goldman-analysis-finds-a60c87a4

but if they say it's "restructuring" and don't make a technological excuse, it's an average 7% drop

i suspect everyone's running out of money cos the economy's already in effective recession

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on the official Copilot discord, then locks the server

lol

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/