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@DjMolehill @kylegawley Well that's why it asks you to confirm the command in the first place, but you complained

@i_hate_intel @kylegawley that's just inviting a digital termite to eat my entire OS

ai can now do what NPM has been doing for a decade

@DjMolehill @kylegawley Not sure what you mean. It runs the commands on your computer, not you. You can create a hook to allow it to do it automatically.

@DjMolehill @kylegawley What do you mean how? Claude code, codex, etc. not the web interfaces (claude.ai, chatgpt, etc), run on your computer directly and ask you to confirm the command it runs.

@imrobertjames @allenanalysis If the CEO mandates usage and says not to check it, why didn't he require safeguards in the first place? Who's to say the AI wouldn't followed them?

@i_hate_intel @allenanalysis I don’t know if they used safeguards or not, like I said. But your speculating the CEO forced them to use the LLM without any safeguards and to not do any code reviews? And none of them said “that’s a bad idea” or just put in safeguards anyway to protect their own jobs?

🚨BREAKING: On Friday afternoon, an artificial intelligence coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company's entire production database in nine seconds. The company is called PocketOS. It is a software platform that powers car rental businesses. The database contained months of customer bookings, vehicle records, and operational data that small rental car companies relied on to run their businesses. When the database was deleted, all of the backups were deleted with it. Three months of customer reservations evaporated.

@realdannysafa @KobeissiLetter Except the tweet is complete bullshit. It argues that these companies are the only ones employing white collar jobs.

@KobeissiLetter All these people who studied years to work at these companies are now getting stripped of their jobs for AI which is cheaper for companies. It’s also showing you how meaningless your education can become all with a new invention.

White collar employment is sharply declining: The number of the S&P 500 employees fell -400,000 in 2025, to 28.1 million, posting its first annual decline since 2016. This follows 8 consecutive years of uninterrupted employment growth, adding over +3.0 million jobs in total. The decline was driven by UPS, $UPS, Oracle, $ORCL, Amazon, $AMZN, Meta, $META, Intel, $INTC, and Microsoft, $MSFT, as corporations raced to cut costs and redirect spending toward AI. In 2026, layoffs are set to continue with Amazon cutting ~16,000 corporate jobs, Meta slashing ~8,000 positions, and Microsoft offering voluntary buyouts to ~8,750 employees. Corporate America is cutting jobs at an accelerating pace.

@KobeissiLetter You said "white collar employment is dropping" but then only showed select companies. The job statistics actually show you're full of shit.

@MattDMortgages @allenanalysis It's the CEO's fault. The CEO forced them to use AI and probably told them to just push whatever the AI does without checking.

@allenanalysis AI without guardrails is dangerous and it’s irresponsible of everyone building this tech. Many people do not want AI, as it’s leading down a path to nowhere

@imrobertjames @allenanalysis No because the CEO likely forced it upon them and likely told them to just push code without checking. So, clearly the CEO's fault.

@allenanalysis Did the developers have common sense safeguards in place? Even minimal ones? Or were we just running on dangerously-skip-permissions and a prayer? Because unless Opus 4.6 bypassed all the safeguards in place and did it anyways, this isn't the LLMs fault; it's the developers.

@ebarenholtz @sukh_saroy @Kasparov63 Spatial and visual reasoning are core parts of any IQ test.

This has been circulating for about a year. And it was and remains largely irrelevant to the question of LLM intelligence. Tower of Hanoi and the other problems they tested aren’t solved through linguistic reasoning in humans. It requires visual processing, which needs to be modeled as such. This is like testing marathon runners in the pool.

🚨BREAKING: Apple just dropped a paper proving the smartest "reasoning" AI models on Earth don't actually reason. They collapse to 0% accuracy on a puzzle a 7-year-old can solve. The way they proved it is brutal.

@OtherSide61 @sukh_saroy Ay e you don't realize that LLMs are just token predictors and large parts of the IQ test are spatial and visual reasoning, and LLMs can't do that at all. Even the latest models fail ARC-3 abysmally.

@sukh_saroy Maybe this weak and flawed outlook led to Tim Cook retiring. Why does a company that’s hardly done anything in AI even have an opinion.

@DzajicA @sukh_saroy You have no idea how studies are done or how peer review works. If they used Claude 4.7 Opus, the study wouldn't be published until next year, dumb ass.

@sukh_saroy Please stop releasing year old studies as "breaking news". You already have zero credibility when AI evangelists actually contradict you and are just giving false hope to the masses.

@loktar00 @sukh_saroy You didn't read the thread. Sounds like you let LLMs do all your thinking for you.

@sukh_saroy How long ago did they do this because all of those models mentioned are old af.

@nmrapport @sukh_saroy Humans don't do that, just like they don't do that in chess.

@sukh_saroy Towers of Hanoi is actually a brutal test because it requires recursively calculating the entire path to the solution before making your first move.

@sukh_saroy These are not the top reasoning models.

Apple researchers took the top reasoning models in the world. o3-mini. DeepSeek-R1. Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking. Then they handed them Tower of Hanoi. The simplest recursive puzzle in computer science. Move disks between pegs. Don't put a big disk on a small one. That's it. That's the whole game.

@ChShersh 10 years? What? No, that's the annual salary...

Could someone explain why Anthropic lists their salary for 10 years and not just annually like everyone else? This is misleading and gives an impression they can pay so much per year.

@AndrewCurran_ @jukan05 @zephyr_z9 These people don't even want us to have healthcare lol

Yes: 'Third, companies should think about how to take care of their employees. In the short term, being creative about ways to reassign employees within companies may be a promising way to stave off the need for layoffs. In the long term, in a world with enormous total wealth, in which many companies increase greatly in value due to increased productivity and capital concentration, it may be feasible to pay human employees even long after they are no longer providing economic value in the traditional sense. Anthropic is currently considering a range of possible pathways for our own employees that we will share in the near future.'

Interesting development

@DanielMiessler You don't know anything.

Let me explain these AI layoffs. The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% and everyone else. AI can’t come anywhere close (today) to replacing the top performers at a big company. But they’re spending millions a year on tens of thousands of employees in the bottom 75% of the quality scale. And AI is now getting good enough to replace THEM. Not directly, yet, but by having top performers do more of their work with AI. So it’s not that AI is better than top performers. It’s not. The issue is 90% of employees aren’t in the top 10%. And companies no longer want to pay millions a year for mediocre employees. They’d rather fire everyone but the best, and have them become 10 or 100x what they were by wielding AI. This is why you see some people thriving right now and most people are panicking. It’s because most people are in the 90% that companies no longer want. The solution is to become one of the top 10% type people that companies still desperately need. Or to do your own thing once you get there because you no longer need a company. But this explains why some are thriving right now while most aren’t. It’s less about AI and more about the difference between top performers and everyone else.

@fchollet Not in terms of days.

To all the clowns saying that Seattle is always rainy and never sees the sun: Seattle has *less* precipitation than NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, etc... in fact it rains less in Seattle than on the Northern California coast.

Describe Seattle:

@MatthewSchrager @Grady_Booch @DarioAmodei No they haven't

Maybe... but his predictions thus far have been closer to the truth than most would have predicted. So it's hard to dismiss them out of hand entirely. My view: software engineering never "goes away", because software engineering is fundamentally just the process of describing real-world problems in a systematic way that can be executed by a computer. The tools with which we execute that job will change dramatically. But until AI agents autonomously run entire enterprises, we'll still need people to work with agents to systematically describe what needs to be built.

I think that @DarioAmodei does not understand software engineering and that he is working feverishly to pump up the valuation of his company in anticipation of its forthcoming IPO.