Ok, but what did they try to do as a SaaS?

Devils advocate, not my actual opinion; if you can make a Thing that people will pay to use, easily and without domain specific knowledge, why would you not? It may hit issues at some point but by them you’ve already got ARR and might be able to sell it.

Bonus points if the attackers use ai to script their attacks, too. We can fully automate the SaaS cycle!

AI is yet another technology that enables morons to think they can cut out the middleman of programming staff, only to very quickly realise that we're more than just monkeys with typewriters.

Hilarious and true.

last week some new up and coming coder was showing me their tons and tons of sites made with the help of chatGPT. They all look great on the front end. So I tried to use one. Error. Tried to use another. Error. Mentioned the errors and they brushed it off. I am 99% sure they do not have the coding experience to fix the errors. I politely disconnected from them at that point.

What's worse is when a noncoder asks me, a coder, to look over and fix their ai generated code. My response is "no, but if you set aside an hour I will teach you how HTML works so you can fix it yourself." Never has one of these kids asking ai to code things accepted which, to me, means they aren't worth my time. Don't let them use you like that. You aren't another tool they can combine with ai to generate things correctly without having to learn things themselves.

Ha, you fools still pay for doors and locks? My house is now 100% done with fake locks and doors, they are so much lighter and easier to install.

Wait! why am I always getting robbed lately, it can not be my fake locks and doors! It has to be weirdos online following what I do.

"If you don't have organic intelligence at home, store-bought is fine." - leo (probably)

Is the implication that he made a super insecure program and left the token for his AI thing in the code as well? Or is he actually being hacked because others are coping?

The fact that “AI” hallucinates so extensively and gratuitously just means that the only way it can benefit software development is as a gaggle of coked-up juniors making a senior incapable of working on their own stuff because they’re constantly in janitorial mode.

Yes, yes there are weird people out there. That's the whole point of having humans able to understand the code be able to correct it.

That is the future of AI written code: Broken beyond comprehension.

An otherwise meh article concluded with "It is in everyone’s interest to gradually adjust to the notion that technology can now perform tasks once thought to require years of specialized education and experience."

Much as we want to point and laugh - this is not some loon's fantasy. This is happening. Some dingus told spicy autocomplete 'make me a database!' and it did. It's surely as exploit-hardened as a wet paper towel, but it functions. Largely as a demonstration of Kernighan's law.

This tech is borderline miraculous, even if it's primarily celebrated by the dumbest motherfuckers alive. The generation and the debugging will inevitably improve to where the machine is only as bad at this as we are. We will be left with the hard problem of deciding what the software is supposed to do.

Reminds me of the days before ai assistants where people copy pasted code from forums and then you’d get quesitions like “I found this code and I know what every line does except this ‘for( int i = 0; i < 10; i ++)’ part. Is this someone using an unsupported expression?”

I hope this is satire 😭