If there aren't serious consequences for driverless cars committing crimes (I mean jail time for executives serious), what's to stop someone for starting a hitman business?
We'll just run someone over with our "driverless" car and pay a fine - capitalism, baby!
I was surprised that the old Cat5e in my home supports 10Gbps without any issue, so went ahead and upgraded the rest of the network with 10Gbps switches (expensive Ubiquiti gear, but worth it to talk at 10Gbps between all my machines, even though the internet is only 5Gbps Fiber).
Yeah, my home is cat5e (I think!) and I was only able to get 2.5 or 5Gbps to my _single_ 10GbE capable machine I had at the time.
So I ended up just buying a switch that supports 2.5Gbps over copper since it's such a huge expense to step up. Anyway, my devices are pretty much 2.5Gbps (APs, flex mini switches, etc).
I can see some embryonic potential in the concept, almost like a little spark of genius. I'm convinced a variant of an agentic personal assistant will become commonplace within a few years and will likely gain widespread adoption.
That said, OpenClaw and most of its clones are extremely brittle right now. FWIW, I also tried building my own thinking the problem is surely the vibe coded complexity but it's not that, it's in limitations of the models and their training.
I do still have an OpenClaw instance running on an M1 Macbook Pro in my closet with a local ollama instance (qwen3.5:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4). It mostly cleans up my notes in my Trilium instance and it helps monitor prices of homelab components (on eBay and Reddit) daily.
A "Senior Software Engineer" at Microsoft is someone with a pulse and 3 years of experience (due to title inflation); so despite the "senior" in the title definitely not "senior engineering staff".
I have no doubt Azure sucks, but almost all huge projects like that have systemic issues.
Axel sounds like a pretty smart guy, but wanted to point out I've seen this kind of behavior before, often from mid-level "job-hopping" engineers (sometimes with overly inflated egos) that overconfidently declare everything the organization is doing is BS and they have the magic solution to it.
And yes, sometimes by sending long winded emails to very large internal groups about how their solution will address all the problems if only someone recognize their genius (and eventually give them a VP title and budget). Some of the time, they are well intended but missing crucial historical knowledge about why things are in the state they are and why what they're proposing was tried 5 times before and failed.
They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked, but I haven't heard of widespread compromises like this in Microsoft's systems so...
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