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2026-10-30 21:41:45

me@social.taupehat.com

AI6YR Ben wrote the following post Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:29:47 -0700

<insert Kool-Aid related meme of some sort here>

Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai-tokens-to-rewrite-98-percent-of-the-companys-legacy-code-in-24-months-president-plucks-former-startup-founder-telling-him-to-go-nuts

#AI #Aipocalypse

And this, folks, is why every #sysadmin you know is absolutely hating life right now and actively reconsidering their career choices.

2026-10-30 21:56:52

Frobnitz Coil Oil

frobozz@tty0.social

@me Saw the writing on the wall in 2024. Tried medical stuff, wasn't a good fit, now I'm learning PLCs and hydraulics and stuff. Hoping that a field where vibecoding will rapidly cause very expensive industrial accidents might be slower to force pseudointelligence on workers. Obviously, the suits couldn't give a single shit about worker's lives, but damage to facilities and resulting downtime is going to affect their quarterly bonuses.

2026-10-30 22:15:05

Aatch

aatch@mastodon.nz

@me glad we don't have any Cisco hardware in our network.

2026-10-30 22:35:11

MegatronicThronBanks

megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social

@me I really hate The Doors. But, ah ... bunnanung, buh nung, This is the End ...

2026-10-30 22:37:23

Pēteris Krišjānis

peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv

@me way ahead of you, PHP already did it last week. And it wasn't even issues themselves but sheer panic around them that makes me want to go screw it.

2026-10-30 22:52:23

gnomeoffender

gnomeoffender@mastodon.social

@me Uh, and also how PHP fail was caught.
Analysis Methodology:
- Trace user-controlled inputs (e.g., $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_REQUEST, $_FILES) to their sinks.
- Look for missing or inadequate input sanitization, output encoding, and parameterization (e.g., PDO prepared statements).
- Verify that administrative boundaries and privilege checks are enforced on sensitive scripts.

2026-10-31 00:38:30

Gutmensch.

impooortant@mstdn.io

@me IT is eating itself.