15 points mirzap 1 hour ago 4 comments
url00 1 hour ago | parent
Why hire contractors if the AI is so good? Isn't the point to be buying tokens?
80fj0348i 1 hour ago | parent
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 46 minutes ago | parent
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.
mrieck 46 minutes ago | parent
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.