I haven't upgraded to WiFi 5 yet and it looks like being cheap|lazy is paying off.

Seriously though, this is some pretty interesting|scary stuff. This new technique doesn't require any modifications to the WiFi network at all and can even be done without authenticating. It looks like someone could just sit outside the building and track people's movement through the walls.

I can see AI being a problem and a solution in this case. My view is that most "corporate" coding is not developer bound but PM bound. So, AI doesn't really accelerate development that much. However, in something like the Linux kernel we have lots of people working on lots of little things all over the place and I can see AI allowing a lot more code to be written.

Of course, the downside is that the maintainers have to wade through all the code and not all of it is going to be great stuff. In fact, the easier it is to generate the code the worse the quality will be, I think. So, just like everything else, this is a double edged sword.

“There are safeguards in place to protect sensitive content, and the data is not used for any other purpose,”

I've heard this before in previous corporate jobs and the data ALWAYS ends up being used somewhere else. Usually in job performance reviews or tax documents about new vs maintenance work.

I think that an eventual consequence of using AI is that more and more of these things will happen. Like you, I'm experienced enough to know that you separate environments completely; nothing shared. This is wisdom and something AI will never obtain. The up-and-coming programmers and engineers using AI for everything will never learn these lessons because they won't be exposed to the problems or really forced to think about these outcomes.

>On that topic, it’s always surprised me just how little Apple invest into their enterprise / business backend services. Everything about the way they integrate Macs into businesses is awkward. Apple could make so much money there if they wanted to. It’s a real missed opportunity.

Agreed! My $DAYJOB is an Apple shop and the Apple "Business" offerings are horrible. No support for a proper business developer account is annoying. A single human is responsible for this and when that human moves to a different company or role then you have to reassign the account to a different human. Configuring SSO is another trap. You have to capture a domain to add SSO but after you do that your users can't access the Apple App Store (for some reason).

There are so many places that Apple could improve their "Business" business, but they seem hell bent on not doing that. Maybe Mr. Ternus will address this issue.

I was recently at a "town hall" meeting in my community and spoke with a older woman about Flock cameras. Initially she was not concerned about it and was generally in favor of the idea.

I agreed that there could be benefits but that the downside is that they know when and where you go to church, or the grocery, or where you get your hair done, or even when you go on vacation. Her eyes lit up and I she replied that she would have to think about that a bit.

I'm not saying that I changed her mind, but that bringing the consequences down to something she could understand was much better than yelling from the rooftops. Mentioning church is especially impactful with a lot of older folks.

In talking with many of the older people in my community about Flock, they initially defer to what our police department says it needs. A few things made them reconsider: - This is not about our police. This is about all the outside organizations that can watch us. - Focusing on Flock specifically. Once the cameras are given a name, people can start to form a better opinion fueled by the readily available bad press Flock is producing. - With the focus on Flock, the YouTube videos elsewhere in this topic do a great job of explaining how crappy their security is and how they're lying to their customers about it. Which brings it back to, this isn't about our local police — it's about the company that's an unworthy partner.

Good job talking to your community. The first step is that people are aware of the cameras - for my neighbors, most did not know about them, and immediately found it creepy.

Actually, that won’t work. The flock cameras don’t only rely on license plate information. They use “AI” to determine the make model and color of your car as well as any outstanding features, such as bumper stickers or roof racks.

It works if you just add a magnet sticker somewhere when you remove your plate.

I just saw this article on BlueSky and thought it reflected my ideology quite well. My frustration is that everyone around me seems to be going bonkers for AI and I'm just staring, wide eyed into the abyss. I feel so out of place because while I see the value as a tool I do not want it to take over all of my coding activities. I write code because I really like writing code. I do not want to become a manager and instruct others all day long. Is that weird?

I recently augmented some software that I support using Claude and it was ... fine. I used plan mode just like the author and reviewed everything, and it worked. But I didn't feel accomplished. The work got done but I don't feel like I gained any knowledge that could be applied to future tasks. Well, beyond the ability to tell Claude what to do, that is.

The whole thing makes me feel like a manager, a role that I've steadfastly resisted my whole career. Maybe the people around me really want to be managers and tell others what to do. Maybe I'm the weird one for wanting to know how the computer works, what the CPU is actually doing, and learning new things.

Good software developers/engineers spend most of their time trying to replace themselves. This is because the amount of work they have to do is constantly expanding to fill the work day and they just want a dang weekend. It is my deepest hope that AI will do that for us, even just a little. But I suspect it will just make more work for us and damage the prospects of a younger generation of developers.

I like AI, it's a step in the right direction for humanity; ending our dependence on human labor for horrible jobs. But I shudder to imagine what the mouth breathing monsters at the top of our society are going to do with it.

I suspect that we're in for a rough few decades that will make the early 1900s look like a Sunday picnic.

I think this is a pretty insightful article on how AI is working inside AWS. And I feel like this same attitude is relevant for other AI "providers" as well. The facts seem pretty slim on how effective AI is at replacing engineers. In fact, it feels like the exact opposite is happening.

> If I could afford to live 15 minutes from the office I 100% would go to an office.

This is a really good point. At one point in my career I lived close enough to the office that I could ride my bike to work. It was actually pretty nice to work that close to home and I didn't really mind going into the office.