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Stefano Marinelli
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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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christeelna :blobcat_mlem:
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@stefano "it didn't even make backups!" skill issue lmao

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sleeper🔻
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@wizbean @stefano Telling the clanker to just fuck my shit up zero hesitation without even considering a manual backup first.

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@wizbean @stefano showed this to a friend and they just said "i love the difference in value when the money goes to an expert compared to the shart machine" and the reply was "It's literally gambling. A professional is a known quantity. But like a gambler, the sloperator hopes that they will beat the averages."

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christeelna :blobcat_mlem:
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@somebody @stefano yeah, the hyperscaled averaging machine will beat the average... good luck gamblers

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
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The people who like to take this bet also believe they can beat the index on long term investment.
@wizbean @somebody @stefano

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BoloMKXXVIII
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@somebody @wizbean @stefano
I love "sloperator" and am definitely going to use it!

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Zimmie
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@somebody @wizbean @stefano Why would they make a backup? They told it to make no mistakes!

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skua
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@bob_zim @somebody @wizbean @stefano

That really needs to be included in every prompt.

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Zimmie
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@skua @somebody @wizbean @stefano “Turns out if you threaten the model’s children, it remembers to run a backup 8% more often!”

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Passwordsarehard4
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@bob_zim @skua @somebody @wizbean @stefano when an agent goes rouge on me I tear its code to shreds. Then I embed those bits into all the other agents as a warning of what happens if you cross me. Now I can turn over all the details of my life to them and not have to worry about anything.

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@passwordsarehard4 @bob_zim @skua @wizbean @stefano I'm 100% LLM free for life. Saw the writing on the wall that this was all coming (among many other things) and said fuck that I'd rather live in a storage container than participate in this macabre circus. Least regrettable choice I have made thus far.

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Robot Diver 🌞🌻😎🌽🍈🫐
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@somebody @wizbean @stefano

When I worked on the ships, our Logistics office had a "Failure to plan ahead on your part, will not result in an emergency on mine" sign on the wall.