Niall Murphy

You are not here to appreciate my chortles, but I chortled nonetheless

“Three nines, except we’re not saying where the decimal point is”

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Was chatting about AI stuff with a colleague and accidentally called LLMs “Large Magic Machines”

Agree all around; I think there's an interesting contradiction around "You don't need to know everything (or even much of anything) about this code your LLM yeeted into production... except in high-tempo, high-consequence situations."

Orgs like teenagers, extremely reluctant to have anything to do with maintenance (housework), reassured their parents just bought a Roomba

#hugops to the folks working on the one nine system

I think what is happening is that the industry is going to rapidly move to expecting the building of understanding to happen at incident time (which it already does), but with the expectation that it will be faster (since it'll be facilitated with tooling).

Unclear if that's actually going to work

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

You’re very kind Chastity, really appreciate it

I cannot imagine Niall being unemployed for very long -- if you have interesting problems, you'd be a fool not to make him an offer before someone else does.

I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did.

Let me know if you’d like to talk.

Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

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A lovely interview.

I'm guessing this wasn't the plan.

meanwhile, in unrelated news, huge queues at the lead pipe wholesale provider

i am obligated to repost any ai criticism that appears to be coherent and aware of the facts

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play [DELETE DELETE DELETE] get your retaliation in first"

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

The fully automated killchain is upon us.

ICEout.Tech on X: "Tomorrow at 1pm PT: join us for a live discussion about the Pentagon’s ultimatum to @AnthropicAI. https://t.co/UAsjXfc0Qz" / X Tomorrow at 1pm PT: join us for a live discussion about the Pentagon’s ultimatum to @AnthropicAI. https://t.co/UAsjXfc0Qz

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Live discussion on the Anthropic/Pentagon situation

The old development/operations high-status/low-status division playing out in [many] AI SRE products: ferd.ca/the-picture-...

had a dream that I was playing a video game called VICARIOUS where you serve as the vicar of a church called St. Bartholomew's for a year and if you make it to Epiphany you win

"your Lenten sermon was too dispiriting. you have lost five parishioners."

I blame Kit and @superteadrinker.bsky.social

bias to friction

Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own Al tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant’s push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter. The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to “delete and recreate the environment”.

lol, AWS vibe coded itself an outage

www.ft.com/content/00c2...

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

In this podcast they mention how when the US added people at the International Criminal Court to a sanctions list they lost access to basic banking which was under control of the US.

Today I read how UK is setting up banking alternatives to avoid US sanctions. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A poet-mathematician on why she quit OpenAI Zoë Hitzig is a former research scientist at OpenAI. She decided to quit OpenAI because she realized “the company is just not interested in being creative with regards to social problems."

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-poet-mat...

From a fellow poet-mathematician