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Kim_Bruning 19 hours ago [-]
I suspect ai adoption and development work will be driven by jevon's paradox for the forseeable future. It won't be exactly the same work as before, (see here: fixing software flaws found by an AI), but it'll be interesting.
mrieck 20 hours ago [-]
And then Mythos found bugs in those patches, so another 1000 contractors were hired to patch the new bugs which led to more bugs and so on.
tonyedgecombe 19 hours ago [-]
I remember an IBM study that showed you get a new bug for every two you fix.
jgalt212 17 hours ago [-]
Exponential decay
anorphirith 19 hours ago [-]
perfect recipe for spaghetti code
url00 20 hours ago [-]
Why hire contractors if the AI is so good? Isn't the point to be buying tokens?
80fj0348i 20 hours ago [-]
Banking software is extremely regulated and controlled, both by governments and within the industry itself (one small mistake can wipe out entire institutions within a day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group, banks are extremely risk-averse with technology). So likely they were comfortable using agents to _read_ their code but not to write it.
gopher_space 20 hours ago [-]
So critical that the work is done in-house. Contractors are for audits. I wonder what’s going on here.
The people who didn’t immediately reduce headcount are all busy rewriting their stack from the ground up and you won’t hear much from them right now.
iugtmkbdfil834 16 hours ago [-]
Unless you are somehow a new bank or a fintech company, it is unlikely. There are a few entities in US ( from the old guard section ) that can rewrite their own stack; and the vast majority of them are hopelessly caught in vendor procurement hell.
jgalt212 17 hours ago [-]
I can't for the life of me figure out why Knight didn't DK those trades. Exchanges cancel trades all the time.
80fj0348i 17 hours ago [-]
A lot of the activity did trigger circuit breakers (https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2012-2012-151htm), but a lot of the trades weren't far enough from normal to invalidate. Presumably exchanges don't want to normalize "if your algorithm is shitty we'll give your money back"
iugtmkbdfil834 16 hours ago [-]
Have you ever discussed something like this with an executive? I think the most honest response I got on a project I was involved in that required some legitimate legwork was:
'We can get some cheap remote resources for this'
And the funny thing now.. those resources will likely be using tokens anyway..
The people who didn’t immediately reduce headcount are all busy rewriting their stack from the ground up and you won’t hear much from them right now.
'We can get some cheap remote resources for this'
And the funny thing now.. those resources will likely be using tokens anyway..