As a veteran of the online gaming community, I, like most of you, have spent decades typing text into a chat window interacting with... usually someone else, sometimes an automated engine that rolls dice and adjudicates monster attacks, some of which I programmed.
As a veteran of the military, in my later years (when the internet was a thing) my watchstation on the battle group staff was spent in chat sessions with corresponding watchstanders in the ships we were working with. I always giggled when I saw the phrase "TS in progress" meaning "troubleshooting", not the other (in)famous acronym from my old chat days.
As videogames displaced online text based gaming, my chat sessions slowly disappeared, and briefly I had to actually interact with people without typing at them.
Ah, but in the days of our new AI overlords I don't have to talk to people. I spend the majority of my day in a chat window, telling my AI underling what to do. I've been training my whole life for this moment!
Unfortunately, AI tends to go wild and delete stuff accidentally, so they're continually locking stuff down to prevent accidentally deleting stuff.
But there's still a small category of AI Agents I'm allowed to use, mostly for read-only research stuff, that pre-approves all of those "trust" permission checks. You tired of giving the "librarian" agent individual permission for every web search or internal knowledge base deep dive? Just use "yolo-librarian". It has permissions for All The Things!
YOLO means "You Only Live Once" and is fantastic for those of us who just want our AI to stop asking permission and DO THE THING, consequences be damned.
And that's why I might be retiring soon. But y'know what? I don't care because YOLO.
Your turn to define YOLO. I'll try to collect defs Saturday Morning US Pacific Time.
