“OMG. Our product is so ‘smart’ that it ‘escaped’ containment and hacked other orgs completely on its own.” – OpenAI

“We made version for your kids. It’s totally safe.” – Also OpenAI.

Hmmm…

and tbh for actual engineers, that part isn’t new. that’s basically the job. you get a repo, you get a ticket, you find the relevant code, make the change, test it, etc.

That’s the easy part of the job. The hard part is getting the business to make a god damned decision without three months of fucking around and executives asking if we can “do ‘it’ with AI”, long before anyone has established what “it” is.