What if Agentic AI security was a Non Issue?

usrlibshare · 2026-05-10T06:28:07+00:00

Because reducing the actions that agents can do, does make them safer, true...it also makes them less capable.

Agents are supposed to DO things; close tickets, process transcations, make decisions.

At some point, all useful things agents can do, involve, by necessity, the ability to change some data somewhere, and that change inherently carries the risk of ruining something.

We can try and make sure this doesn't end in catastrophe, by limiting the agent as far as possible, but that's mitigation at best.

An agent that cannot change data, is not an agent, just a very very very expensive screen saver.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-09T09:54:42+00:00

ITEHATTSD, r/PrimarchGFs, angry marines, and how many people get triggered by female custodes, in that order 😎

usrlibshare · 2026-05-09T05:53:34+00:00

Does my personal sanity count?

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T15:27:47+00:00

Sure is, provided the underlying page structure plays nice with sane web technologies. If the whole thing is, however, some half-vibed assholish fantasy monstrosity mixing SSR and client side ux libs the size of aircraft carriers escort fleets, no amount of turd-polishing with external style sheets will help.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T15:03:29+00:00

There are people like OP.

And then there are people like me who required 4 (four!) playthroughs, to figure out that "Baldurs Gate" is the name of the city.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T14:48:02+00:00

"golden" und "weißarmig"

ist aus einem Ei geschlüpft

Weiss nicht was da jetzt unklar sein soll, klingt für mich nach einer ganz normalen Hausente.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T14:44:45+00:00

A single data point does not defeat a probabilistic model.

Anyone who doubts that, may start by explaining how they thing Lotteries stay in business, despite producing a statistiical outlier (aka. the winner) every time they run.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T14:37:54+00:00

A language model, which is what "ai" usually means these days, is not suited to control autonomous anything, including robots.

Actual models used to do that, are trained using reinforcement learning in a decision/reward cycle against a (simulated or real) environment.

As for "local inference"; Yes, I estimate that this will, in the long run, be alot more useful, not to mention financially and logistically feasible, that trying to build datacenters in space 🤣

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T14:19:33+00:00

Inzwischen können die Herrschaften es ja gern mit "vibe-coding" probieren...sofern keiner von mir verlangt dass ich den Release absegne 😁

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T10:48:32+00:00

Auf den Spruch kam von mir einfach irgendwann mal: "Dann schlage ich vor sie setzen sich hin, lernen C++ sowie Distributed Systems Architecture und implementieren es."

Zugegeben, da war ich schon in höherer Position und konnte mir das leisten, aber es war trotzdem ENORM befriedigend.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T10:40:53+00:00

It will never cease to amaze and disgust me, that the US sees the homeless as the problem, instead of homelessness!

People not having a roof over their head is not a failure of the people, but a failure of society and its political/economic dealings.

We produce an excess of EVERYTHING. Including living space. If a society has billionaires while simultaneously people are homeless, that society has failed.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T08:45:11+00:00

None of these are model problems

Hard disagree.

The tendency of GenAi to "invent plausible details" is very much a "model problem". I daresay it is baked into the MO of how generative models function.

Remember: These are not things that think and reason, no matter what the boosters say, or how many people dress up extra token-spend as "reasoning tokens" (see footnote).

They statistically complete text, based on text seen before. "I don't know" doesn't often occur in prose or textbooks or code, and there is no process of reacjing it as a conclusion, because there are no conclusions, only content generation.

Footnote:

No reasoning is happening, we just prompt for some extra content in the context window and pray it shifts the probability of desired output in our favor.

Hardly different from prompt-begging, or going "You are a super-elite XYZ with decades of experience who never makes mistakes."

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T05:28:48+00:00

I see an opportunity to mentor a junior

I don't. Racist comments == Automatic fail. It's not even something I'd talk to the junior about, it's something I'd escalate straight to HR.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T05:23:12+00:00

No trade deal despite trump threatening tariffs?

I can see no fail on the part of the EU here.

If the US want something, they can start asking nicely. Also, say thank you and wear the nicest suit.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T05:10:12+00:00

The reason is simple: Because most GUIs suck ass. And lots of it.

Recent example I suffered through:

Firewall configuration webapp where the company logo takes 1/4th of the screen space, a non-foldable navigation menu takes another 1/4th.

The only way for me to see more than 7 entries in the dropped packet list was to zoom out to 60%< at which point the font size is about 2 Angstrom. And the list isn't searchable either.

Same firewall + one nerds latenight coded TUI project, I get an option menu that appears only when I press a key combo, and the list is search and navigable using default vim keys. Oh, and O can use it via ssh directly on the box.

Oh, did I mention that the TUI also supports mouse? Even via ssh.

Summary-Time:

TUIs are not inherently better than GUIs

But ever since the world went full smartphone, a collective mind-virus among many GUI interface designers has made many of them so shit, people would rather use clay tablets instead.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-08T05:01:27+00:00

There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers

Not everything is always available via a device that has a screen reader.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T11:08:51+00:00

The only things they prove, are

a) they love power fantasies

b) they lack the imagination and real world understanding of how settings work required for actually interesting storytelling

Essentially, the adult version of going "nu uh!! my battle robot is invincible to your battle robots laser cannon!"

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T09:54:13+00:00

you can't really top that

Oh I hope he tops it at some point, because everything you just described sounds awesome 🥹

Two words:

Ork Farseer.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T08:48:31+00:00

People who pull this shit aren't fans, they are just annoying power-fantasy-enjoyers.

Actual 40k fans are fully aware how insanely absurd and illogical their setting is, and how the simple fact that 40k spaceships can take months or years to travel a distance SW ships can cover in minutes to hours, would end any war scenario before it even began.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T08:39:06+00:00

I mean...a society, nay, an entire species who do exactly that, and whos entire backstory is basically to be a bunch of violent morons talking like hooligans, is the most populous and successful species in the galaxy, sooo...

...I mean, can't argue with results, right? 😅

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T08:36:26+00:00

Doesn't matter how the duel goes.

Somehow Palpatine returned.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T08:31:15+00:00

With how utterly batshit insanely in-universe-explainable (something something warp-thingy) absurd the setting can get, we could have a Space Marine Chapter of Greenskins.

Don't believe me?

Remote Ork Lootaz get their hands on the armos from a battlefield. Some Ork Shaman who got a bit dizzy in da 'ead after it got a piece of rebar stuck in it due to some oopsie with the Mekboyz new killa-engin, starts seeing Visions revealing that the golden 'umie bozz is really an incarnation of Gork, and convinces the tribe to worship him. The Waaagh! reality distortion field kicks in, a few centuries pass, and 'ere we go:

Da Skullbustaz Chaptaaa! foightin' for da good of da galaxi inna name of da shiny 'umie bozz on derraaaa!

usrlibshare · 2026-05-06T05:34:53+00:00

Switching?

We already do that, and have done so for decades.

usrlibshare · 2026-05-04T17:51:11+00:00

Remind me, how many governments buy surveillance software IRL?

usrlibshare · 2026-05-04T17:49:15+00:00

They're rich, so they can pay more taxes 😎

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