Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

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242. Armageddon by Anthropomorphism: On Security and the Frontier

AI changes the speed and scale of computer security, not the fundamental nature of the problem.

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Steven Sinofsky
Aug 30, 2026

It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead! —Reese, Kyle Sergeant/Tech-Com, DN38416

Come with me if you want to live. —Also, Reese

We are not facing an existential crisis of computing, and we are not facing a new enemy for which we have no defe…

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