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everywhere, but most important in ethics

your ethics.

let's not forget that these major LLMs are all the children of corporate hyper-piracy en masse, none of them are ethical even in origin unless you're talking about the pre-product company charter kind of ethics, like google .


You can't put anthropic and openai in the same basket regarding ethics. One accepted Department of War's conditions and the other not.

Last I heard, claude was the model powering maven when it bombed that school. Most aren't up-to date on that because anthropic launders their culpability through palanntir. Anthropic is better at optics not ethics.

No matter what you say, you know yourself the truth that the DoW wanted to go over the red lines of anthropic and they said no, while openai said yes. This is as clear as day to everyone and you are just lying yourself to believe something else.

How is anthropic training their models? Surely they're not using other people's work without their permission, right?

What origins of ethics?

You use the term piracy, which potentially hints at ur biases.

American IP laws aren’t universal, and last I checked neither is it popular in Silicon Valley.

Institutions surrounding dealing with IP Piracy is an American strong arm attempt to own the unownable and to use Russel conjugates to make the flagrant attempt seem just.


what's the point of this benchmark if sonnet is working great at my tasks and mini can't solve my tasks?


Yeah but if you have to describe in very much details in english, you're better of just writing it with autocomplete.

I find that vibe coding is useful when it can be build with little details and it makes the right assumptions.


Sorry, but what is the philosophical niche of openai really? Obtain money at all cost? No red lined when using your modele in war? Work for scam altman?


I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?


Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure.

I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.


Is this like Darktrace?

Apparently the cybersec bigwigs at our company love it, but for me I have to write a detailed explaination why another 'incident report' the clueless cybersecurity guys keep bothering me with is actually nonsense.


As a cybersecurity guy...

There are a lot of cybersecurity people that really know nothing about actual security and just rely on what their tools tell them. And products like Wiz love to "prove" their value by raising tons of red flags.

This is especially true for vulnerability management, which is basically Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf as a Service. The entire CVE ecosystem used to be great, but now it's turned into resume-driven-development where people exaggerate the severity of a vulnerability in order to have a CVSS 9.8 on their resume.


Nope. Darktrace is crap verging on fraud. Wiz actually solves tangible CSPM and runtime issues.


Can you give an example? Because I'm currently unable to understand the point of this product.


>>It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.

I wonder if there are antitrust lawyers watching this closely. Would be really interesting to get their perspective on this.


Wiz got "unconditional" approval from the EU. I think this was the last step holding up the acquisition.

https://www.reuters.com/world/google-secures-eu-antitrust-ap...


Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the few and possibly ownly player certified to operate in FedRAMP Medium/High deployments operating with the technology it does (eBPF instrumentation).


Google has really been expanding into DoD lately. I think they're realizing it's a large part of why AWS is so big and Azure is still alive.


If you think Google is capable of making a singular coherent decision on a topic like this, you're dreaming. There's likely multiple competing visions.

That said: the goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play.

They are culturally incapable of merging other people's tech into their own stack and have both the tendency to rewrite everything from scratch on their own bespoke technologies and also internal engineering teams that will bristle at having a foreign body invade their cathedral.

You could say it would be talent acquisition but most everyone who comes from a startup walks as soon as their golden handcuffs loosen and they can find something else to do. Going from startup to Google is usually torturous.

Been through this 15 years ago. I don't think anything has changed.


> goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play

I don't think that's true here (what is the competing google product exactly?) or generally in cloud acquisitions, that generally buy into their platform missing features


The competing Google features are not a distinct product with its own name, but rather many separate features one can enable, like container image scanning. Collectively, it doesn't do all that Wiz offers, but it's still there.


It's true that Cloud has behaved a bit different from Classic Google


Thats the entire purpose, the reality is that large corporations are increasingly “multi cloud” and Google wants to have an offering for them and for companies that are on AWS and Azure to be able to move some of their workloads to GCP.

AWS and GCP also made a joint announcement about multi cloud networking for a similar reason

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...


>or they will keep it cloud agnostic?

They grossly overpaid if they aren't keeping it cloud agnostic. It's impressive software, but if it's only compatible with GCP it will not survive in this space.


I'm really hoping this means GCP Security Command Center quickly gets subsumed by Wiz


you mean there will now be three products instead of two

Google Security Center Wiz Google Agentic Wiz Security


Make it easy to use google cloud and plug into google ai


You didn't write that and you shouldn't believe that you did.


On shareholder money? No thank you. If 1 person can do the job, why keep 2?


If there are growth opportunities for the company, selectively choosing the top 90% YoY, minimizing backfills (in theory...) will result in a company full of high achievers that can execute on that growth vision.

If the company is shifting into maintenance mode, cutting 40% of the staff is the right move, but definitely hurts shareholders b/c they valued the company as growth, not maintenance.


Sometimes I feel like “shareholder first” mentality has gone a bit too far. Most of the majority shareholders are a handful of people who have too much money, they don’t really put in any work, but are more than happy to put people out of work if it meant they’d get a bit more money.


Because in such adversarial environments, your best employees leave, and quickly. And those people worth way more than half of your workforce.


If you're a healthy company that is growing, you could do 2x as much stuff!


Shareholders didn’t complain when those workers inflated their obscene capitals.


I am just saying that the decision was not some kind of inevitable result of forces beyond their control. They just made a business decision to line their pockets better.


I really like it. Nano banana is like the best product name in AI.


not the op, but this is what i did too and bypassed the designer. I iterated with nano banana and gave the result to the company that builds the kitchen. the middleman is gone now.


interesting! Discovered any prompting best practices while iterating with nano banana?


This is what I would do too


Yeah right. I beg to differ. I was just laid off by a company in London after 6 years with them. 3 months severance. And thats it.


Sorry to hear that. I've been laid off a couple of times myself. I don't know how that changes how much risk companies take on when hiring, though.


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