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It's in the sysadmin sub because we are routinely the people told buy and manage Grammarly deployments, and we're the people generally cancelling those services now given everyone is being pushed to use their flavor of AI instead. And those emails from users upset that we're doing what management told us to do (following this Grammarly advice)? They go from end users to sysadmins.

The purchase of Tumblr was basically Elon purchasing Twitter without the political gain. I'm amazed the purchase decision was ever made, and more amazed that it still exists after the hit to the user base.


And unlike the Twitter acquisition, Tumblr users basically universally hate its new owner. Twitter has plenty of Elon boosters, but I've never seen someone on Tumblr actually _like_ photomatt.


This might depend what you mean by code. In the sysadmin space I ask a web interface for poweshell to generate specific information multiple times a day, and pasting it into a terminal is really the cleanest workflow on a corporate machine where you have to justify running an executable.


Vmware vsphere is not at all in the consumer space where virtualbox exists.


Every static HTML pages built this way with ai is another WordPress site that wont get built by contractors just to be neglected, compromised, and used to launch phishing and ransomware attacks.


From what I've seen around it will be a WordPress website still, running some at-best-once-updated version of Divi/Elementor/WpBakery, built using their equally terrible new AI tools.


Every static HTML pages built this way with ai is another WordPress site that wont get built by contractors just to be neglected, compromised, and used to launch phishing and ransomware attacks.

You mean the very web sites that the "AI" trained on?

If you think AI can't make buggy code, there are several dozen thousand comments on HN that disagree.


Ai cant make a static HTML page sitting on something like cloudflare pages have an rce bug.


Maybe, but what about when "Claude do this" picks WordPress for someone that doesn't know what a reverse shell is?


Still a win. Claude loves to write code from scratch instead of searching the web and pulling in dependencies, so you’ll likely end up with fewer garbage tier plugins written by people whose average skill level is put to shame by bootcamp grads; those people don’t know what a reverse shell is either.


So… similar levels of garbage code, but with no eyes looking at it.


To give my example, if you search for locksmiths or plumbers or any sorts of trades you'll land on a page for "small family locksmith in your small suburb name". Except the site has thousands of urls with the same exact content and pictures, one for every suburb in Australia. Gary the small business owner does not live in my street.

As far as I can tell its a national company with an overseas call center, the scam is that it looks like a local company - at least they can sell a lead gen to someone that can open my lock.


It's not just elderly parents. I've sat in on many an incident where skilled people in accounts or HR similarly saw and ad and thought "I have to do this thing", leading to compromise.


The under 30 crowd is also dangerously tech illiterate. They hardly know how anything functions. They just use apps. If it doesn't have a simple app they won't bother. Just nope out.


It's not age; it's apathy.


In the last twelve months ive had electricians, plumbers, kitchen renovators all work in my home while I was wfh. In an age gone by I would burn annual leave to deal with this. I dont know how I could handle the logistics of full in office again.


It makes me wonder what people did before WFH was prevalent!


Stay-at-home moms/housewives were the load bearing pillar for that whole lifestyle.


Not sure if you intended to sound like Claude. If so, well played :)


They didn’t sound like Claude; Claude sounds like them.


On one hand yes, but on the other hand just configuring your server to refuse connections by IP address rather than server name seemed to drop roughly half the bots I ever see.


I'm confused at the way they promoted it. Is there any way someone outside the company reading a Twitter post would consider this a positive thing for the product to be told what incentives the sales team get?


It's not aimed at consumers of their product.

Someone outside the company who was thinking of joining a B2B sales team, and who likes tropical vacations, might react positively to this post.

Or a potential investor might be impressed to see the company has a mature sales pipeline and plenty of revenue to reward its top salespeople.


It is to hire new reps, they are competing for talent.


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