Its a tired trope, but you are wrong. The haves and the have nots define everything about our society and Not Addressing The Situation is a very active choice, thus politics.
In some ways some people are literally blinded to the problems they cause because as you say, they do not and some say cannot see the problem.
A good discussion on the topic is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooEsmOOm2k
tl;dw - authoritarianism and conservatism directly impact your cognition and ability to reason about the world and prefer abductive reasoning and avoiding new information.
"Republicans don’t want to hear this, but there’s a pretty long-standing body of social science research that indicates people who have right-wing attitudes, particularly regarding religion and epistemology, appear to have lower cognitive capacity." (and it gets worse with age because you do not receive new information)
What makes this disillusionment even more difficult to claim is that it’s the same argument that’s used to counter liberals by saying they are all sheep, etc.
Which, leads us to simply morals and ethics. Two sides with two different views who both are angry at the other for not having their views.
That’s not to say both are right, but there’s surely one side that has a lot more care for us all as humans vs thee.
"They are all sheep" is rich coming from the most conformist group in existence. There is a reason they use "blue-haired" as an insult. Their rugged individualism can't tolerate deviating from the flock for acceptable hair styles. Conservatives are clowns. They would be funny, except they are destroying our country.
Putting your secrets in any logs is how you get those secrets accidentally or purposefully read by someone you do not want to read it, it doesn't have to be the initial corp, they just need to have bad security or data management for it to leak online or have someone with a lower level of access pivot via logs.
Now multiply that by every SaaS provider you give your plain text credentials in.
Right, but the multiply step is not AI specific. Let's focus here: AI providers farming out their convos to 3rd-parties? Unlikely, but if it happens, it's totally their bad.
Right, but this is still a hygiene issue, if you are skipping washing your hands after using the bathroom because its unlikely that the bathroom attendants didn't clean it up you are going to have a bad time.
There's something to that, but I don't think in reality it's a thing: you don't do surgery in the public bathroom. The keys to the kingdom secrets? Of course not. Everything else? That's why we have scoped, short-lived tokens.
I just think this whole thing is overblown.
If there's a risk in any situation it's similar, probably less, than running any library you installed of a registry for your code. And I think that's a good comparison: supply chain is more important than AI chain.
You can consider AI-agents to be like the fancy bathrooms in a high end hotel, whereas all that code you're putting on your computer? That's the grimy public lavatory lol.
This is my favorite high powered individual at a company trope.
Hey you, yeah you with no power to change or order people around, yeah, you go ahead and do my job with no new tools or authority.
I have had so many CTOs tell me that I should go tell an entire department to change their entire goal system because of something they want done, but do not want to deliver any thought process of how that's going to happen or are willing to put in any effort to idk, move the gigantic ship they have in motion.
And of course, the blame only goes one direction in such a bad org, tbqh the QA person probably is happier literally anywhere else.
Yes, Palantir folks have self selected for the first two over and over - anyone working there for many years now is completely blacklisted from anything I touch, when someone advertises ex-Palantir folks in the job description I know I can safely avoid that company forever.
Same. I would never allow anyone who has Palantir on their resume to be hired in any company I have influence over. They are the brownshirts of the tech industry, worse even than the people poisoning children's minds at Meta.
The unfortunate converse is there are plenty of other software companies looking for that .gov money that would pick these less than scrupulous employees right up.
Agree, as engineers we should be making the car easier to operate instead of making everyone a mechanic.
Focus on the simple iteration loop of "why is it so hard to understand things about our product?" maybe you cant fix it all today but climb that hill more instead of make your CEO spend some sleepless nights on a thing that you could probably build in 1/10th the time.
If you want to be a successful startup saas sw eng then engaging with the current and common business cases and being able to predict the standard cache of problems they're going to want solved turns you from "a guy" to "the guy".
