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Github: OpenAI Codex — Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random scripts, cost me $10,000+ #59060

The levels of schadenfreude in the replies are intense.

But I get it. The first time I was getting comfortable with a coding "agent" and my trust in it caused data destruction, I was angry too. Then, of course, I realized that getting angry at it was like getting angry at losing a limb while using a hand grenade as a hammer.

Via this @glyph@mastodon.social thread.

If money is the only barrier to entry, and once all of the capital is gone the AI companies are going to have to live on revenue, and computers depreciate fast, then it's the company that *doesn't* try to go big and fast early that's going to end up being the LLM provider left standing.

The thing about starting to be aware of dogwhistles for structural inequity is that I can't just post "Holy shit, do you even read what you wrote?" on Nextdoor, I have to find ways to lead people through the self-discovery and awareness, and that may not be possible.

Today I learned about Simpson's Paradox: Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide

From mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca's thread linking to Game Production Alchemist: I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow and Measuring Up, in which "one number" is explained as a tell for implementing Deming's ideas on process measurement without understanding them, in a way that will be counter-productive.

Matt Haughey looks at the film Musk (2026) (via).

And, yes, like him, I'd love to see something going deeper into The Boring Company and a lot of the other stuff.

After 7-months, [Anthropic's] Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Underwhelming Findings

Fingers crossed and hoping: Anthropic IPO Risks Causing AI Market Correction, [Copper Sky head Jack] Selby Says

“Why is Anthropic so anxious to go public?,” Shelby said. “They have so much cash on their balance sheet. They have almost as much cash on their balance sheet as Google. They make more money from interest income than they do from their core business model.”

Via.

Nothing like falling into a big block of obviously AI generated code to kill the motivation to try to understand what's actually going on.

Trying to see if I've fixed the picture for Good evening from Petaluma

Edit: aand it didn't work.

Good summary: Esther Weidauer: Why I resist generative AI.

Via

Good evening from Petaluma

edit: I think systemd has broken my image uploading. Fuuuuuu.

‘Put the posters in charge’: Inside the Democrats’ secret strategy to flood the internet with clips.

But it also decided to take a more behind-the-scenes approach. The DNC’s toxic brand among some audiences was hampering the reach of its posts. In early 2025, the organization relaunched its rapid response online efforts under a new brand, @FactPostNews, an account intentionally designed to look like an independent news aggregator, not a messaging arm of the party.

Chat, is it bad when you tank your brand and reputation so hard that a random unknown source is perceived as more reliable?

Via

Terry Pratchett's Study in 1:12 scale. Interleaved English and Danish descriptions, datarama @datarama@hachyderm.io's thread explains that they're the same in both languages.