Have you ever caught yourself blaming some vague, unnamed "they" for life's problems? That universal bogeyman who manipulates gas prices, ruins relationships, and conspires against your success? You're not alone. This exploration into what I call "pronoun paranoia" examines how we've replaced actual analysis with lazy conspiracy thinking. When my brother-in-law spent three hours explaining how "they" control everything, I realized something profound: he couldn't name a single actual person r...
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Have you ever caught yourself blaming some vague, unnamed "they" for life's problems? That universal bogeyman who manipulates gas prices, ruins relationships, and conspires against your success? You're not alone. This exploration into what I call "pronoun paranoia" examines how we've replaced actual analysis with lazy conspiracy thinking. When my brother-in-law spent three hours explaining how "they" control everything, I realized something profound: he couldn't name a single actual person r...
Machine-Generated Disasters: Why AI Has No Place Writing Your Infrastructure Code
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1 month ago
Machine-Generated Disasters: Why AI Has No Place Writing Your Infrastructure Code
After 30 years in infrastructure management, I'm alarmed by the trend of using AI to write infrastructure as code, despite its growing popularity among companies and venture capitalists. While AI-generated infrastructure code might work 85% of the time, that missing 15% can lead to catastrophic failures including data loss, security breaches, and service outages that human-written infrastructure would never encounter. • AI models learn from often poorly written code on GitHub, reproducing hu...
Frank’s Take
Have you ever caught yourself blaming some vague, unnamed "they" for life's problems? That universal bogeyman who manipulates gas prices, ruins relationships, and conspires against your success? You're not alone. This exploration into what I call "pronoun paranoia" examines how we've replaced actual analysis with lazy conspiracy thinking. When my brother-in-law spent three hours explaining how "they" control everything, I realized something profound: he couldn't name a single actual person r...