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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Probably should fire curmudgeons who refuse to use AI tools at all…
Hey everyone, we have heard your concerns about Proton’s AI strategy and culture and after internal discussions, we want to share a few things with you.
First, Proton does not install tracking software on employees' laptops to measure how much AI-generated code they produce. This rumor stemmed from a misunderstanding about how MDM software works, and it's not true.
Second, our use of AI will never be at the expense of security. In the past year, contrary to what has been alleged, additional layers of security review have been added to meet the threat posed by hostile AIs scanning Proton's open-source code for vulnerabilities. Our code is open source, and its security remains open for all to verify.
We want to prove this to you, so in the interest of transparency, we will lift the hood on how we use AI internally at Proton. This includes publicly releasing and open sourcing several of the internal tools that we use, including more advanced versions of Lumo with greater capabilities, which have never been made available outside of the company.
We will also publish how code reviews and security reviews at Proton are done, and detail our AI policies, including where AI is permitted, and where it is not, and our rationale. Instead of just being able to see the final open-source code that we produce to verify security, you will also be able to assess how that code was produced.
Lastly, we are not re-interviewing our staff about AI usage, and there are no job losses due to AI re-interviews.
You can hold us to these commitments. We're aware that we haven't lived up to the high standard you ought to hold us to, and for that we can only apologize, we are sorry.
the trap all devs have fallen into is that using agents feels like free hours so we spin up a dozen parallel projects. those projects arent free. each one exacts a tax on your attention. every agent needs your review and judgement.
k shaped economy
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
there are a lot of clearly-slop posts with beautiful animations that do not withstand any scrutiny… but I still find them to be inspiring enough to get people thinking about the possibilities.
of course, the best interface is no interface. the “grass touching interface”, really
OPUS + REA CAN REBUILD A FEATURE WITHOUT SEEING A SINGLE LINE OF ORIGINAL CODE
The video shows the clean-room loop in one shot:
→ REA reads the binary and writes a SPEC.md (every claim labelled: observed / inferred / unknown)
→ A second agent never sees the original code. It only gets the SPEC
→ It rebuilds the feature from scratch
→ An oracle tests it against the real behaviour (and catches planted bugs)
No code crosses the wall. Only the rules do.
This is exactly the gap I wrote about in the article.
REA finds the door. It does not open it for you. The password was still sitting in the code for a human to read.
Full map of what it can and cannot touch (6 rooms, 23 targets, Green/Yellow/Red zones) is here ↓
if you’re shipping slop with an LLM, that’s a skill issue on your part. you can ship LLM code with high coverage and excellent dev practices including great readability and documentation if you want to.
tld macos comes with stephen hawking mode for free
support.apple.com/en-gb/guid…
im in a cafee making kissy faces at my screen to left click and it's... amazing(ly embarassing for the people with me)
friend from Korea asks: "Is it Family Dollar or Dollar General or Dollar Tree that sells Hakeem Jeffries?"
which is just evidence of how much of a global cultural footprint US politics has.
("why do you care who a random member of the house is overseas?")
they are finding diminishing marginal returns now that they own all developers' souls.
now they are going after the non-developers.
`songs from the cryogenics pyramid` is a great music blog name for "this song was inspired by a dead musician"
"Tillamook is the correct answer. only cheese can overcome the dissatisfaction of living in Portland"
