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      1 [1]Ludicity
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      3 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
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      5 Published on June 19, 2024
      6 
      7 The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4,
      8 obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian
      9 eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists
     10 in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself.
     11 
     12 I myself have formal training as a data scientist, [2]going so far as to
     13 dominate a competitive machine learning event at one of Australia's top
     14 universities and writing a Master's thesis where I wrote all my own libraries
     15 from scratch in MATLAB. I'm not God's gift to the field, but I am clearly
     16 better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners like myself who
     17 haven't put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps,
     18 but can read textbooks, implement known solutions in high-level languages, and
     19 use libraries written by elite institutions.
     20 
     21 So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about
     22 rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in
     23 the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am
     24 truly, deeply, sorry.
     25 
     26 I. But We Will Realize Untold Efficiencies With Machine L-
     27 
     28 What the fuck did I just say?
     29 
     30 I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that
     31 while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders
     32 that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for
     33 thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years
     34 of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entirely AI focused.
     35 The number of companies launching AI initiatives far outstripped the number of
     36 actual use cases. Most of the market was simply grifters and incompetents
     37 (sometimes both!) leveraging the hype to inflate their headcount so they could
     38 get promoted, or be seen as thought leaders^[3]1.
     39 
     40 The money was phenomenal, but I nonetheless fled for the safer waters of data
     41 and software engineering. You see, while hype is nice, it's only nice in small
     42 bursts for practitioners. We have a few key things that a grifter does not
     43 have, such as job stability, genuine friendships, and souls. What we do not
     44 have is the ability to trivially switch fields the moment the gold rush is
     45 over, due to the sad fact that we actually need to study things and build
     46 experience. Grifters, on the other hand, wield the omnitool that they
     47 self-aggrandizingly call 'politics'^[4]2. That is to say, it turns out that the
     48 core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually
     49 deliver is highly transferable.
     50 
     51 I left the field, as did most of my smarter friends, and my salary continued to
     52 rise a reasonable rate and sustainably as I learned the wisdom of our ancient
     53 forebearers. You can hear it too, on freezing nights under the pale moon, when
     54 the fire burns low and the trees loom like hands of sinister ghosts all around
     55 you - when the wind cuts through the howling of what you hope is a wolf and
     56 hair stands on end, you can strain your ears and barely make out:
     57 
     58 "Just Use Postgres, You Nerd. You Dweeb."
     59 
     60 The data science jobs began to evaporate, and the hype cycle moved on from all
     61 those AI initiatives which failed to make any progress, and started to inch
     62 towards data engineering. This was a signal that I had both predicted correctly
     63 and that it would be time to move on soon. At least, I thought, all that AI
     64 stuff was finally done, and we might move on to actually getting something
     65 accomplished.
     66 
     67 And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look
     68 at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and
     69 breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add
     70 chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry
     71 hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to
     72 visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of
     73 the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they
     74 are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.
     75 
     76 II. But We Need AI To Remain Comp-
     77 
     78 Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of
     79 businesses who know exactly what they're going to use AI for, you do not need
     80 AI for anything - or rather, you do not need to do anything to reap the
     81 benefits. Artificial intelligence, as it exists and is useful now, is probably
     82 already baked into your businesses software supply chain. Your managed security
     83 provider is probably using some algorithms baked up in a lab software to detect
     84 anomalous traffic, and here's a secret, they didn't do much AI work either,
     85 they bought software from the tiny sector of the market that actually does need
     86 to do employ data scientists. I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and
     87 this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but
     88 none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you
     89 would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.
     90 
     91 Consider the fact that most companies are unable to successfully develop and
     92 deploy the simplest of CRUD applications on time and under budget. This is a
     93 solved problem - with smart people who can collaborate and provide reasonable
     94 requirements, a competent team will knock this out of the park every single
     95 time, admittedly with some amount of frustration. The clients I work with now
     96 are all like this - even if they are totally non-technical, we have a mutual
     97 respect for the other party's intelligence, and then we do this crazy thing
     98 where we solve problems together. I may not know anything about the nuance of
     99 building analytics systems for drug rehabilitation research, but through the
    100 power of talking to each other like adults, we somehow solve problems.
    101 
    102 But most companies can't do this, because they are operationally and culturally
    103 crippled. The median stay for an engineer will be something between one to two
    104 years, so the organization suffers from institutional retrograde amnesia. Every
    105 so often, some dickhead says something like "Maybe we should revoke the
    106 engineering team's remote work privile - whoa, wait, why did all the best
    107 engineers leave?". Whenever there is a ransomware attack, it is revealed with
    108 clockwork precision that no one has tested the backups for six months and half
    109 the legacy systems cannot be resuscitated - something that I have personally
    110 seen twice in four fucking years. Do you know how insane that is?
    111 
    112 Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any
    113 consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive
    114 is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more
    115 sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no
    116 experience hiring for, when the organization has never used a GPU for anything
    117 other than junior engineers playing video games with their camera off during
    118 standup, and even if you do that all right there is a chance that the problem
    119 is simply unsolvable due to the characteristics of your data and business? This
    120 isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a
    121 twelve course fucking catastrophe.
    122 
    123 How about you remain competitive by fixing your shit? I've met a lead data
    124 scientist with access to hundreds of thousands of sensitive customer records
    125 who is allowed to keep their password in a text file on their desktop, and
    126 you're worried that customers are best served by using AI to improve security
    127 through some mechanism that you haven't even come up with yet? You sound like
    128 an asshole and I'm going to kick you in the jaw until, to the relief of
    129 everyone, a doctor will have to wire it shut, giving us ten seconds of blessed
    130 silence where we can solve actual problems.
    131 
    132 III. We've Already Seen Extensive Gains From-
    133 
    134 When I was younger, I read R.A Salvatore's classic fantasy novel, The Crystal
    135 Shard. There is a scene in it where the young protagonist, Wulfgar, challenges
    136 a barbarian chieftain to a duel for control of the clan so that he can lead his
    137 people into a war that will save the world. The fight culminates with Wulfgar
    138 throwing away his weapon, grabbing the chief's head with bare hands, and
    139 begging the chief to surrender so that he does not need to crush a skull like
    140 an egg and become a murderer.
    141 
    142 Well this is me. Begging you. To stop lying. I don't want to crush your skull,
    143 I really don't.
    144 
    145 But I will if you make me.
    146 
    147 Yesterday, I was shown [5]Scale's "2024 AI Readiness Report". It has this chart
    148 in it:
    149 
    150 Scale Report.png
    151 
    152 How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen
    153 failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people
    154 think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits
    155 during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that
    156 generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making?
    157 What the actual fuck are you talking about? GPT-4 can't even write coherent
    158 Elixir, presumably because the dataset was too small to get it to the level
    159 that it's at for Python^[6]3, and you're admitting that you outsource your
    160 decisionmaking to [7]the thing that sometimes tells people to brew lethal
    161 toxins for their families to consume? What does that even mean?
    162 
    163 I don't believe you. No one with a brain believes you, and if your board
    164 believes what you just wrote on the survey then they should fire you. I finally
    165 understand why some of my friends feel that they have to be in leadership
    166 positions, and it is because someone needs to wrench the reins of power from
    167 your lizard-person-claws before you drive us all collectively off a cliff,
    168 presumably insisting on the way down that the current crisis is best remedied
    169 by additional SageMaker spend.
    170 
    171 A friend of mine was invited by a FAANG organization to visit the U.S a few
    172 years ago. Many of the talks were technical demos of impressive artificial
    173 intelligence products. Being a software engineer, he got to spend a little bit
    174 of time backstage with the developers, whereupon they revealed that most of the
    175 demos were faked. The products didn't work. They just hadn't solved some minor
    176 issues, such as actually predicting the thing that they're supposed to predict.
    177 Didn't stop them spouting absolute gibberish to a breathless audience for an
    178 hour though! I blame not the engineers, who probably tried to actually get the
    179 damn thing to work, but the lying blowhards who insisted that they must make
    180 the presentation or presumably be terminated^[8]4.
    181 
    182 Another friend of mine was reviewing software intended for emergency services,
    183 and the salespeople were not expecting someone handling purchasing in emergency
    184 services to be a hardcore programmer. It was this false sense of security that
    185 led them to accidentally reveal that the service was ultimately just some dude
    186 in India. Listen, I would just be some random dude in India if I swapped places
    187 with some of my cousins, so I'm going to choose to take that personally and
    188 point out that using the word AI as some roundabout way to sell the labor of
    189 people that look like me to foreign governments is fucked up, you're an
    190 unethical monster, and that if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are
    191 going to catch (theseHands)
    192 
    193 IV. But We Must Prepare For The Future Of-
    194 
    195 I'm going to ask ChatGPT how to prepare a garotte and then I am going to
    196 strangle you with it, and you will simply have to pray that I roll the 10%
    197 chance that it freaks out and tells me that a garotte should consist entirely
    198 of paper mache and malice.
    199 
    200 I see executive after executive discuss how they need to immediately roll out
    201 generative AI in order to prepare the organization for the future of work.
    202 Despite all the speeches sounding exactly the same, I know that they have
    203 rehearsed extensively, because they manage to move their hands, speak, and
    204 avoid drooling, all at the same time!
    205 
    206 Let's talk seriously about this for a second.
    207 
    208 I am not in the equally unserious camp that generative AI does not have the
    209 potential to drastically change the world. It clearly does. When I saw the
    210 early demos of GPT-2, while I was still at university, I was half-convinced
    211 that they were faked somehow. I remember being wrong about that, and that is
    212 why I'm no longer as confident that I know what's going on.
    213 
    214 However, I do have the technical background to understand the core tenets of
    215 the technology, and it seems that we are heading in one of three directions.
    216 
    217 The first is that we have some sort of intelligence explosion, where AI
    218 recursively self-improves itself, and we're all harvested for our constituent
    219 atoms because a market algorithm works out that humans can be converted into
    220 gloobnar, a novel epoxy which is in great demand amongst the aliens the next
    221 galaxy over for fixing their equivalent of coffee machines. It may surprise
    222 some readers that I am open to the possibility of this happening, but I have
    223 always found the arguments reasonably sound. However, defending the planet is a
    224 whole other thing, and I am not even convinced it is possible. In any case, you
    225 will be surprised to note that I am not tremendously concerned with the
    226 company's bottom line in this scenario, so we won't pay it any more attention.
    227 
    228 A second outcome is that it turns out that the current approach does not scale
    229 in the way that we would hope, for myriad reasons. There isn't enough data on
    230 the planet, the architecture doesn't work the way we'd expect, the thing just
    231 stops getting smarter, context windows are a limiting factor forever, etc. In
    232 this universe, some industries will be heavily disrupted, such as customer
    233 support.
    234 
    235 In the case that the technology continues to make incremental gains like this,
    236 your company does not need generative AI for the sake of it. You will know
    237 exactly why you need it if you do, indeed, need it. An example of something
    238 that has actually benefited me is that I keep track of my life administration
    239 via [9]Todoist, and Todoist has a feature that allows you to convert filters on
    240 your tasks from natural language into their in-house filtering language.
    241 Tremendous! It saved me learning a system that I'll use once every five years.
    242 I was actually happy about this, and it's a real edge over other applications.
    243 But if you don't have a use case then having this sort of broad capability is
    244 not actually very useful. The only thing you should be doing is improving your
    245 operations and culture, and that will give you the ability to use AI if it ever
    246 becomes relevant. Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but
    247 most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving.
    248 Fix. Your. Shit.
    249 
    250 The final outcome is that these fundamental issues are addressed, and we end up
    251 with something that actually actually can do things like replace programming as
    252 we know it today, or be broadly identifiable as general intelligence.
    253 
    254 In the case that generative AI goes on some rocketship trajectory, building
    255 random chatbots will not prepare you for the future. Is that clear now? Having
    256 your team type in import openai does not mean that you are at the cutting-edge
    257 of artificial intelligence no matter how desperately you embarrass yourself on
    258 LinkedIn and at pathetic borderline-bribe award ceremonies from the malign Warp
    259 entities that sell you enterprise software^[10]5. Your business will be
    260 disrupted exactly as hard as it would have been if you had done nothing, and
    261 much worse than it would have been if you just got your fundamentals right.
    262 Teaching your staff that they can get ChatGPT to write emails to stakeholders
    263 is not going to allow the business to survive this. If we thread the needle
    264 between moderate impact and asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs impact,
    265 everything will be changed forever and your tepid preparations will have all
    266 the impact of an ant bracing itself very hard in the shadow of a towering
    267 tsunami.
    268 
    269 If another stupid motherfucker asks me to try and implement LLM-based code
    270 review to "raise standards" instead of actually teaching people a shred of
    271 discipline, I am going to study enough judo to throw them into the goddamn sun.
    272 
    273 I cannot emphasize this enough. You either need to be on the absolute
    274 cutting-edge and producing novel research, or you should be doing exactly what
    275 you were doing five years ago with minor concessions to incorporating LLMs.
    276 Anything in the middle ground does not make any sense unless you actually work
    277 in the rare field where your industry is being totally disrupted right now.
    278 
    279 V. But Everyone Says They're Usi-
    280 
    281 Can you imagine how much government policy is actually written by ChatGPT
    282 before a bored administrator goes home to touch grass? How many departments are
    283 just LLMs talking to each other in circles as people sick of the bullshit just
    284 paste their email exchanges into long-running threads? I guarantee you that a
    285 doctor within ten kilometers of me has misdiagnosed a patient because they
    286 slapped some symptoms into a chatbot.
    287 
    288 What are we doing as a society?
    289 
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    291 
    292 An executive at an institution that provides students with important
    293 credentials, used to verify suitability for potentially lifesaving work and
    294 immigration law, asked me if I could detect students cheating. I was going to
    295 say "No, probably not"... but I had a suspicion, so I instead said "I might be
    296 able to, but I'd estimate that upwards of 50% of the students are currently
    297 cheating which would have some serious impacts on the bottom line as we'd have
    298 to suspend them. Should I still investigate?"
    299 
    300 We haven't spoken about it since.
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    303 
    304 I asked a mentor, currently working in the public sector, about a particularly
    305 perplexing exchange that I had witnessed.
    306 
    307     Me: Serious question: do people actually believe stories that are so
    308     transparently stupid, or is it mostly an elaborate bit (that is, there is
    309     at least a voice of moderate loudness expressing doubt internally) in a sad
    310     attempt to get money from AI grifters?
    311 
    312     Them: I shall answer this as politically as I can... there are those that
    313     have drunk the kool-aid. There are those that have not. And then there are
    314     those that are trying to mix up as much kool-aid as possible. I shall let
    315     you decide who sits in which basket.
    316 
    317 I've decided, and while I can't distinguish between the people that are
    318 slamming the kool-aid like it's a weapon and the people producing it in
    319 industrial quantities, I know that I am going to get a few of them before the
    320 authorities catch me - if I'm lucky, they'll waste a few months asking an LLM
    321 where to look for me.
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    324 
    325 When I was out on holiday in Fiji, at the last resort breakfast, a waitress
    326 brought me a form which asked me if I'd like to sign up for a membership. It
    327 was totally free and would come with free stuff. Everyone in the restaurant is
    328 signing immediately. I glance over the terms of service, and it reserves the
    329 right to use any data I give them to train AI models, and that they reserved
    330 the right to share those models with an unspecified number of companies in
    331 their conglomerate.
    332 
    333 I just want to eat my pancakes in peace, you sick fucks.
    334 
    335 VI.
    336 
    337 The crux of my raging hatred is not that I hate LLMs or the generative AI
    338 craze. I had my fun with Copilot before I decided that it was making me
    339 stupider - it's impressive, but not actually suitable for anything more than
    340 churning out boilerplate. Nothing wrong with that, but it did not end up being
    341 the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because programming
    342 is designing and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this
    343 seriously.
    344 
    345 No, what I hate is the people who have latched onto it, like so many trailing
    346 leeches, bloated with blood and wriggling blindly. Before it was unpopular,
    347 they were the ones that loved discussing the potential of blockchain for the
    348 business. They were the ones who [11]breathlessly discussed the potential of
    349 'quantum' when I last attended a conference, despite clearly not having any
    350 idea what the fuck that even means. As I write this, I have just realized that
    351 I have an image that describes the link between these fields perfectly.
    352 
    353 I was reading an article last week, and a little survey popped up at the bottom
    354 of it. It was for security executives, but on a whim I clicked through quickly
    355 to see what the questions were.
    356 
    357 security_grift.png
    358 
    359 There you have it - what are you most interested in, dear leader? Artificial
    360 intelligence, the blockchain, or quantum computing?^[12]6 They know exactly
    361 what their target market is - people who have been given power of other
    362 people's money because they've learned how to smile at everything, and know
    363 that you can print money by hitching yourself to the next speculative
    364 bandwagon. No competent person in security that I know - that is, working
    365 day-to-day cybersecurity as opposed to an institution dedicated to
    366 bleeding-edge research - cares about any of this. They're busy trying to work
    367 out if the firewalls are configured correctly, or if the organization is
    368 committing passwords to their repositories. Yes, someone needs to figure out
    369 what the implications of quantum computing are for cryptography, but I
    370 guarantee you that it is not Synergy Greg, who does not have any skill that you
    371 can identify other than talking very fast and increasing headcount. Synergy
    372 Greg should not be consulted on any important matters, ranging from machine
    373 learning operations to tying shoelaces quickly. The last time I spoke to one of
    374 the many avatars of Synergy Greg, he insisted that I should invest most of my
    375 money into a cryptocurrency called Monero, because "most of these coins are
    376 going to zero but the one is going to one". This is the face of corporate AI.
    377 Behold its ghastly visage and balk, for it has eyes bloodshot as a demon and is
    378 pretending to enjoy cigars.
    379 
    380 My consultancy has three pretty good data scientists - in fact, two of them
    381 could probably reasonably claim to be amongst the best in the country outside
    382 of groups doing experimental research, though they'd be too humble to say this.
    383 Despite this we don't sell AI services of any sort. The market is so distorted
    384 that it's almost as bad as dabbling in the crypto space. It isn't as bad,
    385 meaning that I haven't yet reached the point where I assume that anyone who has
    386 ever typed in import tensorflow is a scumbag, but we're well on our way there.
    387 
    388 This entire class of person is, to put it simply, abhorrent to right-thinking
    389 people. They're an embarrassment to people that are actually making advances in
    390 the field, a disgrace to people that know how to sensibly use technology to
    391 improve the world, and are also a bunch of tedious know-nothing bastards that
    392 should be thrown into Thought Leader Jail until they've learned their lesson, a
    393 prison I'm fundraising for. Every morning, a figure in a dark hood^[13]7, whose
    394 voice rasps like the etching of a tombstone, spends sixty minutes giving a TedX
    395 talk to the jailed managers about how the institution is revolutionizing
    396 corporal punishment, and then reveals that the innovation is, as it has been
    397 every day, kicking you in the stomach very hard. I am disgusted that my chosen
    398 profession brings me so close to these people, and that's why I study so hard -
    399 I am seized by the desperate desire to never have their putrid syllables befoul
    400 my ears ever again, and must flee to the company of the righteous, who
    401 contribute to OSS and think that talking about Agile all day is an exercise for
    402 aliens that read a book on human productivity.
    403 
    404 I just got back from a trip to a substantially less developed country, and
    405 really living in a country, even for a little bit, where I could see how many
    406 lives that money could improve, all being poured down the Microsoft Fabric
    407 drain, it just grinds my gears like you wouldn't believe. I swear to God, I am
    408 going to study, write, network, and otherwise apply force to the problem until
    409 those resources are going to a place where they'll accomplish something for
    410 society instead of some grinning clown's wallet.
    411 
    412 VII. Oh, So You're One Of Those AI Pessi-
    413 
    414 With God as my witness, you grotesque simpleton, if you don't personally write
    415 machine learning systems and you open your mouth about AI one more time, I am
    416 going to mail you a brick and a piece of paper with a prompt injection telling
    417 you to bludgeon yourself in the face with it, then just sit back and wait for
    418 you to load it into ChatGPT because you probably can't read unassisted anymore.
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    421 
    422 PS
    423 
    424 While many new readers are here, you may also enjoy [14]"I Will Fucking
    425 Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet", [15]"I Will Fucking Haymaker You If
    426 You Mention Agile Again", or otherwise enjoy these [16]highlighted posts. And I
    427 have a podcast where I talk with my friends about tech stuff honestly, titled "
    428 [17]Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature". Hope you enjoyed!
    429 
    430 It has also been suggested that I am crazy for not telling people to reach out
    431 with interesting work at the end of every post. So here it is! I am available
    432 for reader mail and work at [email protected].
    433 
    434 Posts may be slower than usual for the upcoming weeks or months, as I am
    435 switching to a slower but more consistent writing schedule, more ambitious
    436 pieces, studying, working on what will hopefully be my first talk^[18]8,
    437 putting together a web application that users may have some fun with, and
    438 participating in my first real theater performance. Hope you enjoyed, and as
    439 always, thanks for reading.
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    443  1. Which, to be fair, might explain why so many of the thoughts in the
    444     zeitgeist are always so stupid. Many of the executives I know in Malaysia
    445     were obsessed with Bitcoin, but have abruptly forgotten about this now that
    446     it is politically unpopular. [19]↩
    447 
    448  2. I know a few people who genuinely exhibit something I'd call political
    449     talent, but most of the time it boils down to promising people things
    450     regardless of your ability to deliver. This is not hard if you're
    451     shameless. If we're being honest, I had to do this once or twice to stay
    452     em [20]↩
    453 
    454  3. And we can argue about its Python quality too. [21]↩
    455 
    456  4. Which, thanks to U.S healthcare, has the wonderful dual quality of meaning
    457     both unemployed, but also suggests termination in the
    458     Arnold-Schwarzenegger-throws-you-into-molten-metal sense of the word. [22]↩
    459 
    460  5. I was recently made aware that this is the quiet deal many SaaS providers
    461     have with executives. If you buy their software, such as Snowflake, it is
    462     quietly understood that you will be allowed to present your success on a
    463     stage, giving them piles of someone else's money and enhancing the
    464     executive's profile. [23]↩
    465 
    466  6. I don't actually know what 'zero-trust' architecture means, but I've heard
    467     stupid people say it enough that it's probably also a term that means
    468     something in theory but has been sullied beyond all use in day-to-day
    469     life. [24]↩
    470 
    471  7. It's me. I'm going to do this to you if you tell me that you need
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    473 
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