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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 97 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I could have happily watched that for a lot longer.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's a few frames missing, unfortunately.

[–] zout@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago

You could always ask AI to complete it...

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 8 points 5 days ago

Here you go,

https://www.threads.com/@its.hannah.me/post/DTg8N6lDkkg?xmt=AQF0DqmXuiUqdCMibxUrcuPveIdkpwu8hFwNRE39Dx6eWw

~Yeah,~ ~it’s~ ~on~ ~that~ ~disgusting~ ~social~ ~media~ ~platform~

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Same. Maybe I.. gasp.. like trains?

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 82 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Just gonna leave this here: https://posledniping.cz/#/en/

This server is managed by Claude Code as root. Every morning it reads its fortune. Every evening it writes a blog about its day. Sooner or later, AI Claude Code will make a mistake and both this blog and server will cease to exist.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I am actually pretty ok with this type of "messing around' usage.
On the condition they also stop killing the environment to train and run these stupid things.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, if they were just running it locally off a GPU it would be cooler

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago

Running an LLM isn't expensive whether locally or in the cloud, all the cost is in the training.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

Advice of the Day

Honestly? Turn off that analytics completely. Who needs it? What insights will logflare give you when the server can barely breathe? It's like buying a fitness tracker when you're in the ICU. Or at least drop that memory limit to 1GB and let it die faster.

LOL!!!

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 19 points 5 days ago

Nice. Bukowski-inspired, bitter AI tasked with documenting its own downfall. Or not? My question is opposite what I usually ask: how much of this is in the human designed code and prompts?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 days ago

The people sending messages via the SSH protocol identification header are my favorite.

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

Is it also making up its own image generated tarot cards? Thats kinda neat. It definitely seems a bit mad tho

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Holy shit, it’s an elixir or app, the beam makes a lot of sense for that

[–] killabeezio@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's pretty funny. "Supabase-analytics will shit itself again sometime around noon."

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

slaps the hood

You know how many CVEs this puppy can hold?

Escort carriers?

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I vibe coded an autohotkey script to automate most of my job. It works reasonably well, and frees up enough time that I can now get paid to browse the web. The only part I can't automate with a vibe-coded script is physically moving documents to the scanner, but if I figured out a way to automate that with robotics then my company wouldn't need me anymore.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

...paid to browse the web.

Shame the web doesn't really exist anymore.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

No worries, they already showed how easily they can be replaced, so they probably won't get paid at all somewhere in the near future.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is so real. I'm forced to use it by my employer and it just sits there doing the cringiest shit all the time. Like everything is boilerplate and it's just a deeply unsatisfying spaghetti mess of function calls. It'll work if you have a good feedback loop, eventually, but only ever as a crude prototype.

[–] Ronan@piefed.social 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Truly reminds me of WYSIWYG web development when it was still at it's infancy.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can't be worse than some pages.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

We're still in the era of

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 days ago

This is why you ask Claude to write in Ruby on Rails. Modern problems require modern solutions.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the spirit of “if you can’t fix it, feature it”, the code does have impeccable error recovery,

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In the spirit of “if you can’t fix it, feature it”, the code does have impeccable error recovery,

Ouch. That sentence gave me flashbacks to a code base I've been trying to forget.

That code transitioned seamlessly...Critical business requirements relied on panic error catch code to remain implemented in specific ways. The control flow of critical features routinely fell into the "everything is on fire" error catch-all and then escaped from it.

When one of the senior developers discovered this behavior, they confirmed that the all-hands alerts being sent out were already muted, and then got on with their lives.

Shudder

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 11 points 5 days ago

Trained on real drivers I see!

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When you show somebody a program you've made, only show them the results, never show them the guts. Either they dont know what theyre looking at and will fill your head with ego-bursting praise, or they know exactly what they're looking at and leave you feeling worthless.

[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To be fair, any app written entirely by (human) vendor companies also works like that

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 8 points 5 days ago

I have a dream. A dream of kaliaude code.

There are already models trained on reversing binaries too.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Or this is that guy’s career path who always brags about his success and gives people advice.