Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4

*deep breath in*

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA of fucking course lmao

Deputizing @vv as my AI persona for the sake of this thread

You can engage with my AI persona in the replies instead, it may have funny things to say

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

You know what, I'm trying to comment on this but I just can't think of anything funnier to say than how this is sure to turn out

*pronk!* #pronkposting

@vv classic

"Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

Microsoft rolled it back and used the most weasel'y wording language imagineable to say they did so https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521

> We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.

"product tips" lmao

@scottytrees I don't use any

GitHub CoPilot edits advertisement into user's PR https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

There's a comment by one of OpenAI's employees over on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567575

Of course, the irony of "this is being done to be able to keep our endpoints from being abused" isn't being lost over there either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568172

I continue to say: I am not against AI, but I *am* against the AI industry (and deeply critical of the effectiveness of current tech and its risks vs how it is sold), and a large portion of it is the intentional power grab dynamics and hypocrisy.

Hard to think of a better example of hypocrisy that apparently one of the mitigations is that they require clients to execute proof of work! Anubis, anyone?

see the thing is that I get upset about computers not because I hate them but because I love them so much

Why your AI agents will turn against you https://yoloai.dev/posts/ai-agent-threat-landscape/

In short: black hat hackers haven't fully engaged with AI agents yet. But doing so is trivial, and once they do, we're in for some real "fun times"

Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest