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cwal37 3 hours ago

Delve seems clearly scummy, but dear god the author's company was also engaging in fraud with their own customers and just hoping to skate by.

"The trouble starts when you look at the answers Delve’s AI provided. Based on what your Delve policies claim, the questionnaire AI answers questions stating you have an MDM, had a 200 hour pen-test performed, and do regular backup restoration simulations. Tens of questions are answered like that. Great, you just lied to your vendor but at least you have a good shot at landing the deal. So what did we do? We kept our mouths shut."

Pretty rotten stuff. I went from energy into the software startup world and as I've gotten further down that road and energy has become more and more of a hot field I've encountered a depressing increase in that "just do it to make a deal" ethos, but in critical infrastructure.

Like, no, former Apple PM who learned about an interconnection queue from ChatGPT last week, you are not going to fix the grid, and even moreso you can't "just do X and ask forgiveness later", not in electricity.

OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago | parent [-]

At least they had the balls to post it

cwal37 an hour ago | parent [-]

Per the piece, they only began to step away from Delve once they realized they couldn't close the deals they wanted and their hand was forced by outside asks.

And then also it took a rather large data leak later on to provide extra ammunition to decide and go forward with publishing this.

I'm glad they did, but there are a bunch of steps in between pure balls/altruism and what actually happened based on the blog.