Yeah, I mean every company is different.. but every place I've worked spelled out quite clearly what you can and can't (mostly can't) do with company resources and even to some what you can do on your own within adjacent areas.

It seems unlikely the company was unaware of this side project so one assumes he had some level of blessing, but then again I'm a long time spotify user and had never heard of it..

Blame better tooling. It used to be a pain in the ass to pull external dependencies into a project and ensure they were properly packaged and distributed. It was worth it to just implement something yourself vs adding something from a third party.

Now we've got powerful build tools that make this trivial. Bit of an old-man trope, but many younger devs will google "how do I X" and copy+paste the first solution they find (usually including a new dependency to their build tool of choice). I've seen projects with multiple libraries that do the same general thing because someone googled different problems at some point. And of course all those dependencies pull in their bucket of dependencies and so on.

Depends on how they define failure.

The whole mobile/web game space is filled with companies that poop out low effort games in bulk with no expectation of longevity. This is pretty much the popcap games business model in a nutshell and seems to be working well enough for them.

By your logic, humans are not intelligent either. Human "intelligence" is also the product of deterministic processes - chemical/biological reactions that dictate how action potentials are transmitted along and between neurons. A computer is no different.

(Yes there is also quantum mechanics, which are nondeterministic according to certain interpretations. But the view that brain activity is tangibly influenced by quantum fluctuations appears to be a fringe one.)

Very few software shops are staffed 100% with experts, or even solid developers. Even some solid developers are not specifically experienced in dealing with security.

If this actually matters, you need to either:
1) Have rigorous code reviews prior to anything going into a public facing repository
2) Not provide junior devs the sensitive production credentials in the first place

I tend to lean towards #2. Hide the actual credentials behind whatever your preferred method is (injected secrets, environment vars, whatever). Have a solid dev environment so devs don't need to do much on actual production systems. Ideally your dev environment is automatically blown away routinely and new credentials are generated.

Relying on every developer in your project to always do the right thing is never going to be a good answer.

$4-5 billion is completely negligible towards Israel's GDP ($564 billion), and also compared to the cost of this and previous wars between Israel and Hamas.

I think it's more that Israel doesn't like it when its citizens are massacred by invaders and when neighborhoods across the country are bombarded by missiles.

Canadian and I have no love for Meta, but yeah, there is no tense standoff.

Meta basically called Canada out on its BS law, and now Canada is either going to back down when they realize they have no leverage and will probably face the same from other big platforms, or this will just be a thing on all platforms and the content creators this aimed to help will be absolutely fucked.

But how many people have they killed? Zero, as far as I know. In the meantime, human drivers have killed 13 people in San Francisco. I'd rather have a self-driving car that behaves erratically at low speed than human drivers who accelerate into 4-year-old girls crossing the street at crosswalks.

Who's "they"?

I have never, not once in my life, heard anyone say I should eat bugs.

"My sister immigrated from Iran to Canada and she keeps telling me she'd leave CA in a heartbeat to move to Los Angeles (which I believe is the real armpit of America)"

As someone whose sister is Iranian, I'm sure you are aware that Los Angeles has the nickname "Teherangeles" and it's the largest concentration of Iranian people outside Iran. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe the climate is familiar, maybe it was the biggest fast-growing US city in 1979 so a natural destination for exiles and since then everyone has moved to join the existing large community.

I think that was always the case? There were tons of companies in Detroit that made devices of various sorts that the big manufacturers bought and integrated into their cars.

The same happened to me. But - on one round, it gave me an imaginary title with a real author. And when I looked up that author, I found a real paper by him which was exactly what I was looking for. So yes ChatGPT is limited, but there's still plenty of room for it to make valuable contributions.

Yes!

I have an account I used a very long time ago from my dumb student days and forwarded to the real account I use now.

At some point I lost access to it. I don't think it was hacked, but I have no sweet clue what the password or security questions are set to. Anyway, the address itself was involved in several data breaches, and now I get a constant stream of sketchy shit hitting it (attempts at creating all manner of accounts, responses from those stupid petition sites that don't validate email, etc). I filter this stream, but it's existence still bugs me and I'd be entirely happy for it to just stop existing. Even if someone re-creates it and controls it, I'm at least 99% sure anything actually tied to me is long dead or I've migrated.. but I'd still probably try to re-register it just to be sure (and leave it to collect all the junk but at least not be firing it at my main email).

You don't think composing an AI prompt is "creative input or intervention"?

In a relationship with a real woman (or man, as the case may be), you don't just talk about activities that will be done together. You also talk about whatever happens to be on your mind. That is what emotional intimacy means - you share your personality with your partner and they treat it kindly and share their personality back. Most people, even testosterone charged men, find this meaningful and rewarding. If the chatbot brushes this off and just wants to talk about sex all the time, that's a form of rejection. And which person is going to pay to be rejected?