Troy Hunt has been a pillar in the cybersecurity community with his Have I Been Pwned project for many, many years, even walked back a purchase of it because he felt they would compromise the principles of the project. But now he has just gone all-in on AI. On a previous Weeky Update he published a "Robophobia Equality Policy" after receiving pushback to his openclaw usage. Since then he has posted more of his usage of AI, and in the latest he suggest that "people are getting into the program" because he seems to be receiving less pushback and because of Linus' affirmations

Text of Troy Hunt's Weekly Update 526, quoting: "I have this sense that we've passed the point where "vibe coding" is a derogatory term. I have no empirical evidence for this; it's more a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted the inevitability and are just getting with the program."
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[–] 95 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Yeah, he's been like this for a while, here's a choice quote of his from back in April.

Demanding to “speak to a human” solely because the bot is an AI may constitute robophobic exclusionary behaviour and will not be tolerated.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    robophobic exclusionary behaviour

    good punk band name

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  • [–] 69 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    So his brain melted?

    He thinks the LLM has personhood? Or feelings?

    Fucking moron

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I would love to live in a world where robophibia is a legitimate issue we need to overcome, but that's not anytime soon.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago

    I've been waiting my whole life to stand in the living room drunkenly yelling "No daughter of mine is going to marry this... fucking roomba!"

    And she'd be all crying like 'That's why I couldn't you tell you I was robosexual, dad. You're a hypocritical bigot! Mom would roll over in her grave if she knew what you and that Bimbo4000 subscription on your desktop were doing!"

    Then I'd punch a hole in the wall, which would be easy because all public housing would just be refrigerator cardboard boxes and yell "Why can't you be normal like your transmasc ace furry brother??"

    Then she'd run out of the house crying and jump into her lover/Electric VTO transport that also plays in a band and burn thruster donuts in the front yard.

    But nooo, we get this stupid shit going on here.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I feel like you intentionally left out some context there:

    This is so "peak 2026" - writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It's intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it's there for a purpose: we simply don't have the capacity to deal with every request we get, and we need Bruce to be the coalface of support.

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