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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano @bsd.cafe
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I got a call from someone I don't know.

"Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is down, and we've already spent over €500 in tokens. Can you help us?"

"Sure. €500, plus the time it'll take me to try to fix it. Assuming it can still be fixed and nothing important has been deleted."

"That much?"

Some silence.

"Well, I hope AI takes your job away!" And he hung up.

Believing that autopilot automatically makes you an invulnerable professional pilot will ruin far more people than job losses will.

I don't know if AI will take my job away, but it's already cost them €500 and, probably, their server.

#IT #SysAdmin

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Christophe B. :android:
@bladecoder @androiddev.social
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A display board behind a front window: Price list I code, manually: $500 I code, you watch: $800 I code, you advise: $1000 I code, you help: $1500 You vibe code, I help: $2000 You vibe code, I advise: $3500 You vibe code, I watch: $5000 You vibe code, I review: $8000
A display board behind a front window: Price list I code, manually: $500 I code, you watch: $800 I code, you advise: $1000 I code, you help: $1500 You vibe code, I help: $2000 You vibe code, I advise: $3500 You vibe code, I watch: $5000 You vibe code, I review: $8000

@stefano Reminds me of this

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
@BoydStephenSmithJr @hachyderm.io
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@bladecoder @stefano This particular image is AI generated.

The original was about graphic design, not code.

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Christophe B. :android:
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@BoydStephenSmithJr @stefano I'm not surprised. I don't know anything about the origin of that image but I found its message relevant.

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Trebor
@trebor @types.pl
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@BoydStephenSmithJr @bladecoder @stefano I know the original photo so I knew this was modified, but how do you see it is AI generated instead of photoshopped?

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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@trebor @stefano Last time I saw it, I search up and linked the original and got a reply indicating there was some metadata / signature of a particular generative AI that was in the image.

I'll try searching my history, but I don't know how long ago that was.

EDIT: sfba.social/@drahardja/1172447

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Mad Engineering
@madengineering @hachyderm.io
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@BoydStephenSmithJr @trebor @stefano One trend that amuses me significantly more than it should is that AI already figured out that we all hate AI, while management keeps not understanding this.

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Duncan Blues
@duncan_blues @norden.social
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@bladecoder @stefano the review price tag is still too low.