September 16th, 2026 Men. Some would rather vomit up a rambling blog post wall of text than go to therapy. So here we are. I've seen stupid over the years, but now people with no engineering background pitch "industry changing" solutions from their agent infested homelab; emails read like bozotic LinkedIn-fluencer posts; online articles converge on Meh; half of people you interact with have turned into meat proxies. Spending upwards of 75% of my time dealing with AI has robbed me of most enjoyment of my work.

The cyber hype train goes "choo choo," with main AI companies committing crimes and we let them; anthropomorphic language absolves them of incompetence. Built on exploitation of intellectual property and concentrating power in a few US companies and oligarchs, these models lend themselves to generation of Child Sexual Abuse Material—a product feature for logged-in users—and support military target selection, such as elementary schools. Every company is happy to "ethics aside..." all that and spend unimaginable amounts of "tokens" while staring blankly when you ask if that support chatbot has any ROI.

"Frontier Models" and AI-assisted vulnerability research is another topic with questionable results. Anthropic and OpenAI tried to one-up each other with how dangerous their models are and everybody considers themselves part of some mysteriously named "project" (like Glasswing and Daybreak, or Athena and Akrites) or co-signed open letters. Every participant has thrown incredible amounts of engineering resources at the FOMO-induced, time-limited, "the first one's free" offer. Dozens of highly-paid security engineers had all priorities shifted. The cost must run in many, many millions of dollars for each organization. And yet, despite thousands of new vulnerabilities, I don't think we're any safer. Finding vulnerabilities has never been the bottleneck. The bottleneck is still getting the goddamn packages updated. Patching is still hard. Imagine if we had spent all these resources on the basics: up-to-date asset inventory with fine-grained package listings; infrastructure for regular, frequent, automated OS and application updates;...