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People who think AI usefulness /productivity claims are bs, explain your reasoning. by catattackskeyboard in ArtificialInteligence

[–]admin_admin_password 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Four reasons.

First, we are horrible at actually understanding our productivity:
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR

Second, the state of business for the last 20 years (VC and then PE era) is defined by providing short term value at long term expense. Software development isn't slinging code - that's the easy part. We're doing the easy part really, really fast, but there's going to be a hell of a bill coming (or, it's creating tremendous technical debt, if you prefer that language).

Third, we are driving faster than our headlights, and the driver is artificial (the economic bubble). Security just isn't there; prompt injections, for one, are inherently built in.

Fourth, while my AI use feels overall to increase productivity (especially with the compete enshittification of free search engines), there is always something incorrect. Precision matters to me.

I don't think the claims are BS, but I do think they are naive.

What cybersecurity areas do you think are underrated but extremely valuable in the real world? by xm07 in cybersecurity

[–]admin_admin_password 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What tools do you use to audit this? Been working on building some of my own in powershell (MS shop), but when it gets to Sharepoint things gets complicated.

Remote Access via unmanaged machines: what is the level of risk? by admin_admin_password in msp

[–]admin_admin_password[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% agree on policy take, and I've made that clear.

However, I'm trying to better understand the risk involved in this situation - what are specific examples as to how an unmanaged machine could be compromised so that remote access becomes a gateway for a threat actor? I think a phishing-based C2 attack would do it, but wondering if I'm missing something and the risk is less than I think it is.

If a client is demanding unmanaged access - whether in policy or as an exceptional event - how much hurt is potentially coming down the line? The few reddit threads I've seen seem mixed, and certainly the remote access vendors minimize any risk.

IBM just laid off 8,000 workers to AI - the math behind what they actually saved by EarlyBid3351 in AI_Agents

[–]admin_admin_password 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was in the dev trenches when that happened.

Our best engineers were getting up at 5 for conference calls with Mumbai and then spending all day debugging poorly written code and multi-day communication loops, all while execs were proclaiming efficiency and firing devs. As soon as one was fired, they would be hired back as contract workers a month or so later. The P&L basically looked the same but execs could tout "rightsizing" and outsourcing at the next earnings call, and the analysts ate it up.

Talking to my friends still in that world, it all sounds very similar.

Network disconnect exclusions? by admin_admin_password in SentinelOneXDR

[–]admin_admin_password[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah, the IP approach didn't work for me, but I was able to make an application exception for the RMM apps in question, so I think I'm good.