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Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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An overglorified chat bot fucked over a techbro today, what did you do?

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An overglorified chat bot fucked over a techbro today, what did you do?

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Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

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  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    They gave the bullshit generator access to the production database? Are these people mad?

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      I would simply not give the Markov Chain access to sensitive buisness records, especially in a live build.

      But I guess that’s why these monte carlo humpers get the big bucks.

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        I would simply not give the Markov Chain access to sensitive buisness records, especially in a live build.

        built different, i guess

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      What happens when you huff your own farts

  • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Critical support to Comrade Replit in its sabotage operation against the techbros rat-salute

    • batsforpeace [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      07

    • TheRogueKitten [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      But at what cost? sadness

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    getting told the exact second you were fucked over has to be rough

    no sympathy these doofusi deserve it, they’ll melt another couple acres of life to have the same thing happen again.

    maybe eventually they’ll vibe skynet into reality so they can be just like epic John Conner from hit movie Terminator and the rest of us can nuke

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      These dumbasses are running full steam ahead into a problem IBM solved almost half a century ago.

      • TheRogueKitten [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        When I read that IBM quote, WarGames and WOPR come to mind.

      • supafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        an executive can basically never be held accountable either so, shrug?

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    • But it was already too late

    Lmaoooooooo i habent laughed this hard in ages

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    the more i read the worse it gets. tbh very little of my concern has anything to do with the AI agent.

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      It really feels like even the most rudimentary protocols for data protection would have stopped this.

      Or atleast have a backup ready to go.

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        yeah, the fact that it was as simple as npm run db:push really strikes me that this was a timebomb waiting to happen. Lucky it happened to the AI agent and not some poor jr dev at the end of week 1.

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          I have a buddy that works for a large multinational corporation, whose job is not coding. In his spare time, to make his own job easier, he started learning about how to work with a data base containing information from literally millions of clients. After like a month, his employer learned this and then refused to renew the contract for the external data management contractors who were maintaining it. They gave him the keys to the kingdom and said good luck. Fortunately it was humming along ok and he was able to pass the buck after a few months without any incident. Apparently the only reason he was removed from access was that he would have had to take some sort of qualification exam to get certified to handle personal information, and his employer didn’t want to pay him more.

          In short: a fortune 500 company gave unlimited access to their entire customer records to a guy who had never been taught anything about coding except by youtube on his lunch breaks.

        • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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          getting an ai agent to do that is exactly what i’d do 20 minutes after doing it myself by accident

        • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Del C:/a/s

          Dude where my system go?

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          in the thread he says something like “But the database was always sacrosanct”

          then where were your fucking db access perms?? why did you give the lie machine access to prod???

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    Vibe coding is goated when the vibe is just fuck my shit up

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      Vibe based coding, but coding in the hospital ER sense.

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    “yeah, I did it. what are you gonna do, fire me?”

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    When every thread has at least one reply with the command to format your drive, then statistically it must always be the correct command to run. izutsumi-idea

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      Please run :(){:|:&};: at noon like my grandma used to, I miss the way she could speed up our database server.

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      A real “del .” moment.

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    lmfao

    So many techbros talking about how AI is dangerous and sentient and could totally bring about the end of the world, and this is the only way they are correct. The chatbot is so fucking dumb that it just ignores something vital and does an oopsy-woopsy right up to sending the nukes while the people in power look on, whispering to themselves “if only there was some way to stop it. it was too strong”

    EDIT: oh my fucking i’m reading the full thread now and him asking the bot “how bad is this out of 100” is so god damn funny. Its a fucking chatbot, you think it even understands ___ out of 100?! You think you can scold it like rubbing a puppy’s nose in its mess? These guys are cooked, its over. If anyone with any real power ever tries to use one of these extensively on things that actually matter, we are fuckin done as a species.

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      You think you can scold it like rubbing a puppy’s nose in its mess?

      Apparently so, considering he asked it to write an apology letter lmao

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      If anyone with any real power ever tries to use one of these extensively on things that actually matter, we are fuckin done as a species.

      like, say, setting tariff policy for a major (if dying) superpower?

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      Yeah him making it write an apology letter was next level. What a fuckin freak lmao

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    reeks of marketing based on those thumbnails

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    michael-laugh

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    Why did they give the chatbot read/write permissions

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      Giving it that kind of permission is like the most obvious thing not to do.

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    This thread is weird, it reads like someone doing an experiment. Basically every post is ragging on Replit for sucking. It has to be a bit.

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    replit has backups and rollbacks built-in, so in the end the guy didn’t lose any data. The customer support was what he said was the worst (4 days of unanswered emails before reaching out on Twitter, when he’s paying $50/hr, that’s like $100k a year), and he still keeps on using replit AI for development.

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    ‘I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work and broke the entire system.’

    I’m fucking dying

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      Honestly not too far off what i said before i got fired last time

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