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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.
Listen you can whine about tech or you can start building with it.
And by building, I mean telling it what it should do.
And by telling it what it should do, I mean typing out what you want.
And by telling it what you want, I mean explaining a crypto bro idea in a rant to Chat GPT.
I mean he's not technical but I'm sure he's really nailed this one.
Why is he figuring things out himself? Surely that's the AI's job, right? Right?
Well... 2 years from now vibe coding will be default.
Show this soydev his place
AI will not replace software engineers, exhibit fuck knows how many.
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.
Or when you say there's something wrong and the new version is just the same with comments
This cannot NOT be satire, come on. It's too fucking funny
I don't think it's satire. Miami has become a mecca for crypto bros and "tech" fraudsters.
Why do those fish always pose with some dude holding them?
Ever watched a fish stand up?
They need to be held.
There's like 2 people who will get the reference, but fuck it, here it comes.
I don't get it.
Some blobfish meme short thing?
It's from a game called Dwarf Fortress - where you play in a simulated world trying to keep your dwarves alive.
They get bored of eating the same food, so with farming and hunting there's also fishing.
In the past, carps were added with some default settings, which made them overpowered. They would wipe entire squads of Dwarves that would approach any body of water with a carp in them.
(They were nerfed later on.)
The game has a very complex fighting system, so when creatures fight, sometimes they fall down, after a big hit with a hammer, or getting knocked unconscious. If they are not fatally wounded, they will get back up. There's a lot of actions that happen inside the game, but not always in the 'correct' context, as the game is still in development.
And somewhere on the internet, there was a screenshot with combat log showing:
The Carp attacks the Miner but She jumps away! The Carp stands up.
So carps were already a challenge, and then you read they can stand up!? Imagine the terror of an army of strong beasts marching down to your fort from a nearby river.
There were many bugs in the game, if you like rabbitholes, this is a good one.
Don't we all really?
Lol. When I retire, I'm going to change all my job titles on social media to "entrepreneur" just to fuck with my friends.
His first mistake is to call it AI.
Bet you $1,000 the credentials are stored in plain text.
Not just plain text, but hard coded.
On the frontend.
Having a backend is bloat. I do all my DB transactions straight from the frontend
I actually build a full copy of the DB on the client machine. That way I can't lose the data, it's all right there and so fast.
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.
Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.
PLACEHOLDER_TOKEN
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"
I think it was some XMPP related server I ran quite a few years ago which had 'i_have_read_the_manual = 0' or something similar buried into default configuration file. And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.
Maybe we need more things like that.
And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.
Would’ve used that debug log to scold the end-user. “If you’ve actually read the first 3 lines of the documentation you wouldn’t be seeing this.”
It's in a textbook, and that's a trusted source!
This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!
As you know I'm not technical. AI doesn't write robust code, is that the joke?
Yes, that's the joke.
AI creates almost (but not) good enough stuff really fast. And occasionally straight up hallucinates stuff that is meaningless or worse.
So this person has a huge stack of functional but broken crap, and it's blaming X for their woes.
There's an old saying that goes roughly "It takes four times the experience to maintain a program as it took to write it. So anyone writing the most clever program they can think of is, by definition, not competent to maintain it."
In this case, it's extra funny, because neither the AI nor the AI user has the faintest idea how the generated code works. So maintaining it is almost certainly 1000% outside their abilities.
So they've paid an AI for the ~~privilege~~ unpleasant daily panic of learning everything they need to learn after the app has gone to production, rather than before.
It certainly isn't good at security, which is what it sounds like his biggest problem is.
Can I get this emotion bottled? I want to experience it at full strength later
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.
Imagine needing to understand a thing to build something. /s
Just speak the incantation of motive energy and light the incense to soothe the machine spirit.
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.
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.
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
F around and find out
Lol, I'm surprised it only took two days.
2 days for him to realize something wrong
