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[–] [email protected] 4 points 55 minutes ago

AI will not replace software engineers, exhibit fuck knows how many.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago

His first mistake is to call it AI.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

As you know I'm not technical. AI doesn't write robust code, is that the joke?

[–] [email protected] 178 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've always appreciated the feature of AI coding tools, where they confidently tell you they've done something completely wrong. Then if you call them on it, they super-confidently say: "Of course, here's what needs to be done..."

Then proceed to do something even worse.

[–] whyNotSquirrel 43 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Or when you say there's something wrong and the new version is just the same with comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Because if I choose squirrel everytime I'll never get anything done.

[–] whyNotSquirrel 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but you would have a lot of nuts!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

This thread has "bingo card" written on it !

[–] [email protected] 179 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

This cannot NOT be satire, come on. It's too fucking funny

[–] [email protected] 142 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's satire. Miami has become a mecca for crypto bros and "tech" fraudsters.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Why do those fish always pose with some dude holding them?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Ever watched a fish stand up?

They need to be held.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There's like 2 people who will get the reference, but fuck it, here it comes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

It does not have nerves, yet it feels pain. It does not have a mouth, yet it must scream. And until recently: death only made it so so much stronger!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 18 hours ago

Don't we all really?

[–] omgitsaheadcrab 15 points 19 hours ago

It's a child, that fish just wants to look bigger

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

He probably paid some fishing tourist shop to get him to just the right place so he could hook it and pull it in. That pic cost him money, and it's really important to him.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I wanted to edit my Ghostty themes but found out a lot of the colors are in #hexadecimal notation. I like #rrggbb percentage style colors (b/c they are easy to tweak by hand) and I couldn't find an online color picker that would output that format, so I used deepseek (free) & now have a scrappy ass one w Python & Tkinter completely via "vibe" coding (I call it Clyde Color Picker. It's adorable).

Pretty awesome when you're just some dumbass who needs a very specific tool and not trying to fleece people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I use AI toolings to generate snippets of bash scripts because I can't be fucked to remember that syntax. Obviously not for anything with high risks or that I can't easily verify. But things like parsing through mass amounts of files

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But... bash snippet extensions already exist. The only difference is maybe it doesn't auto name your variables for you. I'd take that over non-deterministic LLM outputs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I have no idea what the hell a bash snippet extension is, but I do know what a local llama.cpp instance running a small model to tell me bash commands on the fly is.

I use it to make .desktop files, too. Isn't that so lazy?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine needing to understand a thing to build something. /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

Just speak the incantation of motive energy and light the incense to soothe the machine spirit.

[–] jubilationtcornpone 130 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Bet you $1,000 the credentials are stored in plain text.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Not just plain text, but hard coded.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago

Having a backend is bloat. I do all my DB transactions straight from the frontend

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

Obviously hand coded. After all, he just discovered that there are people, or more probably bots, who will use open resources for their own uses.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Classic vibe coder things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I've heard that phrase a handful of times now and it's already making my eye twitch. Though I don't think it's meant to be complimentary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Bow before the machine spirit! Taste the fruit of its wisdom!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

It's in a textbook, and that's a trusted source!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

What are they, Sony?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 16 hours ago

I've never seen an LLM response be cavalier with credentials.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Can I get this emotion bottled? I want to experience it at full strength later

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago

Just hold your phone over it. You'll feel a tingly sensation in your intestines, but be not afraid, you just got the emotion bottled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

I want it powdered so I can snort it.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I've started a bank and keep people's money in my wardrobe, I'll be providing the service of holding their money—I'll also probably get robbed sharpish because I'm not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

Lol what a gimp

[–] [email protected] 33 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Lol, I'm surprised it only took two days.

[–] whyNotSquirrel 27 points 18 hours ago

2 days for him to realize something wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

I'm surprised it took two whole days :p

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago

F around and find out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If I were leojr94, I’d be mad as hell about this impersonator soiling the good name of leojr94—most users probably don’t even notice the underscore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.