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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Why is he figuring things out himself? Surely that's the AI's job, right? Right?

[–] ysaraimay@programming.dev 9 points 20 hours ago

Well... 2 years from now vibe coding will be default.

[–] projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Show this soydev his place

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

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

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 52 points 1 day ago

His first mistake is to call it AI.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 224 points 2 days 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@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. I love the confidently incorrect additional comments explaining in detail how the incorrect code works.

Though I'm usually pretty angry at that point, it is also pretty funny.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

ChatGPT would not let me call it "you doofus" when I point outed it had done that repeatedly. For "policy violations".

Edit: I don't know how I screw uped that wording, but I'm leaving it.

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[–] HKPiax@lemmy.world 212 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 174 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Lol. When I retire, I'm going to change all my job titles on social media to "entrepreneur" just to fuck with my friends.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 164 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ever watched a fish stand up?

They need to be held.

[–] msage@programming.dev 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it.

Some blobfish meme short thing?

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] reinei@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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!

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Don't we all really?

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 156 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 107 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not just plain text, but hard coded.

[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 83 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

My db runs on the user's browser via WASM.

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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Classic vibe coder things.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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"

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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!

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[–] PapaSkwat@lemy.lol 114 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AEsheron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago
[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 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.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don't insult it by comparing it to this guy

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