Everything about this story is terrifying, but the cherry on this shit sundae is that they are pushing changes directly to prod.

[mattblaze@federate.social]

@evacide That stands out as Extremely Not At All Good, even among all the other not at all good things going on.

[evacide@hachyderm.io]

@mattblaze The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

[20002ist@thepit.social]

@evacide @mattblaze Paging Dunning and Kruger ….

[mattblaze@federate.social]

@evacide "Full faith and credit of the United States" ain't what it was.

[avuko@infosec.exchange]

@evacide @mattblaze these young privileged pricks all have zero experience with failure (both through youth and privilege), so they won’t have any inhibitions about acting on all the shitty ideas they’ve got.

As the end goal seems to be chaos and the untraceable transfer of money to Musk and friends, them bringing everything to a grinding halt of smoking technical rubble while being personally associated with it, is probably a perfectly acceptable outcome for Musk.

[madopal@mastodon.social]

@evacide @mattblaze You can see how rudimentary his code is. He finally added shell scripts to do linting.

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[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze @evacide "Move fast and break things"?

[laurenshof@indieweb.social]

@evacide https://github.com/markoelez/TinyZero

assuming that this is indeed his github (which is not confirmed at all), his latest activity from 3 days ago is forking a counting module for deepseek

[joe_hill@union.place]

@evacide @mattblaze

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

Every dev and admin has borked prod at least once in their career. But that's also why they're generally limited to less critical systems at first and subjected to more peer reviews until they've had a few years under their belt to fuck up.
@avuko @evacide @mattblaze

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@laurenshof @evacide holy shit thats a scoop right there

[avuko@infosec.exchange]

@JessTheUnstill @evacide @mattblaze as an admin in the beginning of my career, I can vouch this is true.

I’ve also had things grind to a halt starting in infosec (and maybe a little bit later on too ).

This is why checks and balances, DTAP, peer-review, etc. etc. and yes, even seniority (as in experience, not just time on the job) matter.

[onepict@chaos.social]

@rrb @mattblaze @evacide Well they just broke US Democracy

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

Yeah, I've seen some folks who have been in tech for 30 years who still act like they're hot shots who are 1000x smarter than anyone else and don't need to follow any rules or processes... Meanwhile I'm often ending up in "okay, I know this change is risky as fuck, but unfortunately, there's basically nobody else around that understands this code well enough to actually do more than a surface level 'looks good' ... So ... Rubber duck it 5 times get that "looks good", make a backout plan and hope?

@avuko @evacide @mattblaze

[dstndstn@hachyderm.io]

@evacide it's probably just 1000000 lines of COBOL what could go wrong

[gunchleoc@mastodon.scot]

@JessTheUnstill @avuko @evacide @mattblaze Of course, when the interns fuck up, they are the ones who will get the blame and Musk will just walk away with the money.

[teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe]

[sarcasm mode enabled]

What are the cool kids programming in these days? Surely there is a Docker container loaded with NPM/NodeJS COBOL bridge stuff with only 30X more brittle dependencies, 50X worse performance and merely 100X the attack surface?

Y'know, using something like what's in this GitHub repo that hasn't been touched in > 4 years: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node-cobol/

With fElon Musk behind it, I'm sure it will be like Full Self Driving in no time!

Just run it in an AWS or other "cloud" hosting provider and sprinkle in some "AI" (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, OpenAI, I don't care and neither do the people behind those companies) and cryptocurrencies with cool USG NFTs to really make it scream 2025 DevOps du jour!

[sarcasm mode cool down]

Emphasis on scream.

[emenel@post.lurk.org]

@madopal @evacide @mattblaze omg his most recently updated repo is working with deepseek lol

[intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk]

@emenel @madopal @evacide @mattblaze

Lordy lordy, this cannot be real. Please tell me this isn't real.

It's the Seek in DeepSeek which seems like it could be somewhat problematic.

Something needs to be commited.

[beet_keeper@digipres.club]

@20002ist @evacide @mattblaze

10 PRINT "DUNNING KRUGER"
20 GOTO 11