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All modern digital infrastructure
AI is being wedged in throwing the tower off balance
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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Until a vibration hits, or someone blows gently on the blocks at the top right.
In the sense of the metaphor, I think any of those things would have knocked it down long ago. Which says something about the odd resilience of our real systems. Not to mean they'll stay that way, it's just surprising sometimes.
Ypu have no idea how much energy is spent maintaining these old shits running. Spent a week trying to update a 18 year old application. For now, we failed.
I have an idea how much energy is spent trying to replace older working systems with crap that doesn't. We definitely are failing.
Yeah same though. Can't have nice thing when you keep piling crap on crap
There's a piece of software that I use at work for managing tickets for a client, every time I open it there's a note that the app will be replaced next month on the 1st. This notice gets updated on the 27th of each month without fail by the end of day. For now critical infrastructure remains running on a windows xp machine that we remote into using the only software that let's people connect to it.