I’m now convinced that most holodeck malfunctions are the result of end users, who don’t know what they’re doing, using AI to generate poorly-written software they’re ill-equipped to debug or even really understand.
All the holodeck shows is that even in the 24th century people still don’t know how to properly implement least privilege access controls.
Or post mortem. Seriously? A second and third identical failure? Implement some guardrails Starfleet!
No joke I would have loved an episode where Rutherford and Tendi find all the trash code in the holodeck and replace it with code following a proper CI/CD pipeline.
Speak for yourself. The D’s holodeck was always fucking up and sending historical villains running amok and whatnot, but Quark’s holosuites always worked fine.
Yea, cause the Binars fucked with in season 1 specifically to give it the ability to make sapient AIs. Apparently nobody ever did a factory reset after that.
Nah, that same upgrade got rolled out industry-wide. Remember Vic Fontaine?
My headcanon is that Dr. Zimmerman received the Moriarty program from Barclay, and discovered from it how to make sentient holograms, which is why holograms started getting sentient more regularly and by design.
Not at all. Vic was running on Quark’s holosuites. They were not owned, serviced or built by the Federation.
I mean 2 of the smartest people on the Enterprise D accidentally created an artificial lifeform and had no safeguards to prevent it from happening.
Really just one person- Geordie- through an accidental misphrasing of a request to the computer.
I would have never used that computer again. Or at least given it a complete overhaul. You shouldn’t be allowed to do the sort of thing you’d request of Dall-E in order for the computer to create intelligent life.
Yeah, they could stand to at least add a, “This request will result in the creation a sentient being, are you sure you wish to proceed?” warning.
Really, a lot of Star Trek problems could be averted with a “are you sure you want to do this?” before someone does something with the computer or the holodeck. Starfleet apparently never learns. That’s why in Prodigy-
spoiler
Janeway goes back to the Delta Quadrent in a different ship of a different but similar-looking class renamed Voyager.
We should call these “Sonic Shower Thoughts”
I haven’t been a professional developer in a long time, but I feel like this needs to be said; No, the end user is never the problem. There is no such thing as a use case that is not the end user, because as soon as you use it you become the end user. The entire point is to make the product usable. No, the end user breaking things is not some kind of moment to laugh at them - you should be embarrassed.
That being said, I lol’d.
I guess this is a bit of a crossover situation. The end-user is the developer in this scenario. I guess you could also say they’re the end-user of the AI software as well, but that’s not software I’m responsible for (and have advocated against)
The IRL back story of the post is my org is experimenting with letting end-users use AI-assisted, no-code platforms to develop line-of-business software. Sounds good on paper, but they don’t understand anything they create, and when it doesn’t work or otherwise produces unexpected results (which is often), it suddenly becomes my problem to debug the unmaintainable crap the “AI” spits out or click around 10,000 times in the Playskool “development” GUI the platform uses to find the flaw in their Rube Goldbergian-logic.
It’s basically like I’m Geordi or O’Brien and am getting called all day and night to debug people’s fanfiction holonovels. lol.
Which is super annoying because had they just asked or put in a request, I or someone on my team could have developed something properly that could be easily maintained, version-controlled, extended, and such.
