It's pretty bad, but it's ours. Europe has a lot of critical infrastructure that depends on third parties. We rely far too much on USA and China.
United States could ban the EU tomorrow from using windows causing a huge problem, we also can't produce our own semiconductors. We need technological independence at this point.
The USA already banned The Hague (the metonymous court for international war crimes, not the city) from using Microsoft products. They did this because they knew they and their allies committed war crimes and don't want to be subject to the court, so they decided to impede its functioning as much as they can. This actually happened and is still happening right now.
So? The EU is all in on the Genocide. I'm not a US apologist since it's quite clear that they're almost all in support of thos genocide but Microsoft shutting down mail accounts is not the same as "the US" doing so.
I suspect this reply may be for someone else? I read what I said, I read this and it doesn't make sense to me because I didn't say anything would happen.
I don't think it's a modern programmers problem, in fact, I think we can argue we are much better than 20 years ago at least in terms of security.
There is a much higher concern for data validation and no one used HTTPS 20 years ago. Literally there were social networks with people uploading photos and personal stuff which didn't even have HTTPS.
But that was because no one told them. Now they are told and taught. A lot of systems Warn even for opening something publicly... And yet.
I check all CVE's of the software my clients use because we need to figure out why things are broken and often this is a start -> unpatched CVE's. Most (by far) CVE's are not 'honest mistakes' or missed corner cases because rocket-science; they are just sloppy programming. Something that should never pass review. We DO know better but people ship things and hope for the best (including the case in this post etc).
> But that was because no one told them. Now they are told and taught.
That's precisely my point.
> Most (by far) CVE's are not 'honest mistakes' or missed corner cases because rocket-science; they are just sloppy programming.
This is actually true, but it's true because we have way better tooling and safer languages, which means we don't see nearly as many buffer overflows or memory management issues.
It's not that you didn't have negligent programmers back then.
> Something that should never pass review. We DO know better but people ship things and hope for the best (including the case in this post etc).
That's not new though. We've seen similar things happen in the past multiple times.
20 years ago code review was literally a bunch of meetings in a room or talk with another developer in person. Having something like github where you make a pull request, passes the automated test suite and requires a code review, etc. simply wasn't done. If in 2005 that already existed it was extremely bleeding edge.
I do have concerns about the code quality issues introduced by the abuse of LLMs, but until right before that was a thing, definitely the code quality in general has improved a lot.
Three years ago I left my job with VERY high salary because I was starting to burn out and took two months off.
From my experience, if you're burnt out or starting to burn out then leave, otherwise I recommend staying until you secure another job.
Regarding the situation, they want to delete the tests? Fine, you have git right? Replace it, and let everything set on fire, quietly enjoy the chaos and at some point revert the changes. Or don't, you're leaving anyway.
I don't think it's just the Nazi salute to be honest. The reputational damage the US has suffered this year is insane and it's getting worse.
Since Trump was elected America has been awful to its allies, specially Canada and EU. Many Europeans, are avoiding spending money on American companies, much less one owned by Musk.
I really like the idea and I'm a potential customer, but I don't think this is ready yet. I've been learning Chinese for a while and decided to give this a shot and at my level (somewhere between HSK 2 and 3) it's very frustrating:
When I babble (as someone at my level does) and say "eh... a bit of sentence eh... a bit more of sentence" half the times it cuts me off in the first eh... or the second one. This is extremely frustrating, in fact I didn't even finish the free 20 minutes trial because of this.
Another issue is that like all LLMs it's bad at maintaining context of a conversation. I tried speaking about cars with it, as it's a topic I like so I thought it'd be cool and all of a sudden it's asking me what's my favourite ice cream. Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% certain I said something about ice cream but any human would understand I didn't want to say that.
Also I tried it with Spanish as I'm a native speaker. The speech recognition is bad, I don't know what sort of processing this does but it has a lot of mistakes, however it's very rare that chatGPT ever fails to transcript. I'd say well over 20% of sentences were misunderstood.
The idea is cool, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who wants to learn Spanish.
United States could ban the EU tomorrow from using windows causing a huge problem, we also can't produce our own semiconductors. We need technological independence at this point.