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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

What cracks me up is that he is not technical so it takes him longer than usual to figure it out :D :D :D :D

He usually figures these things out much quicker but this time he is struck by some "not being technical" illness. As soon as it passes, he will figure it out as usual.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 12 hours ago

His first mistake is to call it AI.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 195 points 23 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 51 points 22 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 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] whyNotSquirrel 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah but you would have a lot of nuts!

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 154 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 143 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Ever watched a fish stand up?

They need to be held.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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 21 hours ago

Don't we all really?

[–] omgitsaheadcrab 16 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 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.

[–] jubilationtcornpone 136 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 95 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Not just plain text, but hard coded.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 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] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Classic vibe coder things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 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 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Not exactly related, but I run an unraid game server for friends and use a lot of the preconstructed docker apps for games.

Most of them come with the server name preset and the server password preset.

I've jumped into many a "private" server called Docker-GAMENAME with the password still set to "Docker"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 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] 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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] 7 points 14 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 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They seem to be genuinely trying to provide information about a tool that they find preferable to your solution. And you're not even the OP they were responding to. Nobody in this thread has called you or your solution lazy.

A bash snippet extension is "an extension [for a code editor] that provides a collection of snippets for bash scripting." It's a tool that is purpose-built to tell you bash commands on the fly, but smaller, more efficient, and easier to install than a local LLM.

The user you are replying to appears to prefer this because it will also tell you the same bash command every time you ask (non-deterministic outputs can be different for identical requests)

[–] [email protected] 58 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Lol what a gimp

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] whyNotSquirrel 30 points 21 hours ago

2 days for him to realize something wrong

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

I'm surprised it took two whole days :p

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

F around and find out

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.

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