@Azvede @da_667

bouldering and top rope rn. I'm not quite good enough for lead climbing just yet lol

@da_667

tbh I'm probably the healthiest I've ever been at this point.

I don't really care for the treadmill thing, and weights don't do anything for me, but "get to the top of this wall by any means necessary, only touching that one color" is -incredibly fucking fun- for my brain and keeps me going until I literally cannot move.

it's pretty awesome.

@da_667

lately when I've been realizing that I'm getting angry, I go climbing.

because if this shit's driving me up the wall, I may as well make that metaphor literal.

I'm getting kinda ripped actually.

@da_667

don't mean you can't complain about it tho. 's necessary as a way -to- stay grounded that "this shit is Not Helping".

@da_667

I mean, what else can you do? systemic problems require systemic solutions, which requires widespread adoption of the attitude that the systemic problem can be fixed and motivation towards fixing it.

so chill out in the meantime, let things collapse, and then hang out with those of us who remember how to build things after, and try to stay grounded in the meantime.

@da_667

At this point, given the LLM situation, I don't think there's much value in coordinated disclosure.

But from a different angle.

'cuz given Anthropic and other LLM hawkers' attitudes, plus the way in which LLM spam has basically killed off the bug bounty platforms' usefulness?

given how security departments are being gutted in favor of LLM-driven shit?

given how engaging with the companies is going to entail arguing with their pre-primed-as-defensive LLM instances?

There's no way to approach this with a healthy state of mind; all the avenues that we've worked to implement for the past couple decades have been systemically dismantled.

So fuck it. Do whatever.

@aburka

these assholes can't be trusted with money

Not to mention - there's no fucking juniors out there being hired, so I have to do all the scut work that you normally use to -train- juniors, if I want it done right, because - surprise! - nobody's fucking hiring juniors on because they believe the fucking LLM jockeys' bullshit promises.

Anthropic and everyone like them can go fucking eat shit.

Furthermore I have -zero- interest in cleaning up -this- mess once the LLMs have turbofucked everyone and ground their infrastructure into unusable rubbish.

Like, seriously, if you ripped out the engine of your car and replaced it with a vat of shit-flavored pudding, do you think that your mechanic would appreciate seeing that towed into her service bay? Especially if you were demanding that it be fixed without the appropriate budget and resources to hazmat-vaporize the fecal slurry and replace it with OEM spec parts?

"At least you've got job security"

I am fucking -done- with hearing this.

No, I don't.

My 'job security' is an illusion based on the presumption that, in the event that my skillset is needed - or even essential - that there will be someone who will pay for the privilege of accessing those skills.

Except that the fucking LLM jockeys have decided to claim that their product has my skillset.

Even tho it demonstrably does not, this still means that the people who would presumably hire me are uninterested in doing so, due to the existence of a machine that promises to do it for them.

And when they fail, and their business goes insolvent, they still will not be hiring me because -they no longer have a fucking business to hire me for-.

So no. My carefully built, decades-of-practice skills are -not- job security, despite LLMs being obviously, flagrantly, and blatantly incapable of replacing me.