Impressive marketing spin on “our product and deployment strategies are wildly insecure.”

$160/yr for a two person plan. (And I use it on phone, personal, work, gaming — it’s not like their limiting user sessions.) I pretty much only use the search.

Yep, but it’s optional. I have the AI summary in my search off.

Switched to Kagi a year ago, haven’t looked back.

How do you use it?

My main interaction with Pinterest had been with it clogging my search results with copied images that no longer link back to their source pages.

The article doesn’t cover potential impact, just an analogy to a household. Do we expect runaway inflation soon? The national debt had been going up as long as I remember. Was it propped up by international goodwill/trust/fear which we have now burned?

Affected folks probably know, but: near Honolulu, Hawaii.

Leaders said there was a “robust process” to ensure the contracts align with Google’s AI principles.

Ah, I think you’ve identified their “robust process” and what the key “principles” are.

Yeah, got headhunted for 10 replace-doctors-with-AI startup for every 1 ed-tech company that even looked at my resume, and the company I’m at now, though good on paper, is squeezing AI into every nook and cranny as fast as they can while sidelining security concerns.

It seems like the AI never gets tired of writing code

I think that’s a telling observation. The whole reason we have software, and programming languages, is that people get tired.

Necessity has invented generally and reuse to combat repetition. With agents that don’t tire, they don’t gravitate to generally — but their endless repetition does tire their human reverse-centaur bodies dealing with the code review and maintainability they can’t reason about.

“And they have no inductive reasoning capabilities. A model cannot check its own work. It doesn’t know if the answer it gave you is right. Those are foundational problems no one has solved in LLM technology. And you want to tell me that’s not going to manifest in code quality problems? Of course it’s going to manifest.”

If this guy didn’t work at a consulting company I’d send him an application. But maybe if people are paying him to tell them AI is slop, that’s as good as it gets at the moment.

Dorian Smiley, co-founder and CTO of AI advisory service Codestrap

So would I, but I’d like to pay to make it simpler and route more of it to education / universal healthcare.

Primary source: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html

Also reported by the Texas Tribune . Horrifying. I can’t imagine what it would do to a kid to spend 1st grade in a concentration camp eating moldy food, instead of in a safe loving home getting solid nutrition, I only hope they can recover.

Gofundme preparing to support them on release. Apparently one of the trumped-up reasons for holding them is they don’t have means of support? I didn’t see a more direct way to help get them out.

For me, it’s more that it’s a vivid image. I have felt that “immiseration” so it immediately resonates; I don’t need a metaphor. But when people who don’t know technology are gushing about the latest agentic process, I wonder if having a somewhat grotesque, embellished counter will be useful.

I clearly need to up my adblock game. But do y’all also use PeerTube, Nebula, Curiosity Stream? Happy to vote with dollars if there’s a good candidate.

Hadn’t heard “precaritized” either. Brings to mind some penultimate additions to pillow forts, though.

We may start to see people realize that “have the AI generate slop, humans will catch the mistakes” actually is different from “have humans generate robust code.”

I wonder how much of it was vibe coded. And how much the owners will have to give up because of the beach, if anything.

We can stop subsidizing fossil fuels and make EV purchasing affordable. We could even make public transit usable, if we spent $43M/hr on it.