cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/programmer_humor/p/475451/don-t-do-ai-and-code-kids
Original Reddit thread: https://reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
i mean does anyone disagree?
It’s funny until you realize Google dumped $93M into convincing the general public that AI is the future before thrusting a half baked technology into our daily lives.
Well, there’s the problem. In AI development $93m is nothing. Its like they threw a pocket change at a child and demanded industry leading AI.
I think this is just the cost of it’s adverts
If they threw $93m at me, I’d start saying their large lying machine was the solution to all my problems.
IF (and this is a big if) you are going to allow an AI direct access to your files and your command line, for the love of Gabe sandbox that shit and run a backup for the folders you give it access to. We know AI makes mistakes like this. Just act as if you were giving your little brother access to your drives and your command line and it’s his first day. I get we’re all still learning about this stuff, but allowing an AI agent command-line access and full drive access, to a local drive you have no backup of, is just leaving Little Timmy at home alone with a loaded shotgun and a open bottle of pills level of irresponsibility.
D:
Hilarious! I knew this was going to happen! Just not that fast!
Why don’t we let AI control all banks? And why not have it choose elections?
Gemini, please choose the next president of the united States!
Sure! We will be avoiding names that start with a Tr because those are usually pedo.
I propose a soda can, a dry yellow marker, and a new N95 mask from Costco because they come in a package of 20. And my decision is…drum roll please!..A dry Yellow Marker!
Originally from Minnesota, Dr. Yellow Marker spent all its days finding issues with a bank statements at the end of the month. Thru its career it found 5000 issues at Wells Fargo! Then he retired to Wastebasket, a large container home for retirees like it.
As president of the united States he could get its tip soaked in acetone to give us at least a good 2 or 3 days worth of issue marking!
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Outstanding
I don’t usually laugh aloud at comments, but this one got me. Thank you, and Happy Monday 🫠
Perfection
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Watching vibe coders get blown up by their own ignorance and stupidity is such a great past time. Fuck AI.
It’s still happening, too!
The copium in the reddit thread is hilarious.
“The issue is that you had a space in your path name”
No, the issue is that the AI wiped an entire drive! 🤣
“I’m blaming you because my 401k can’t accept this information or it will collapse.”
I mean, a lot of the people pointing that out are actually doing so to indicate the dangers of relying on AI in the first place.
If you read some OPs replies it becomes clear that what happened here is they asked the bot how to fix something, didn’t understand the instructions it replied with, and then just went and said “Hey, I don’t get it, so you do it for me.”
Anyone who knew what they were doing would have noticed the bad delete command the bot presented (improperly formatted, and with no safety checks), but because OP figured “Hey, knowing stuff is for suckers”, they ended up losing all their stuff.
How would you feel if you bought pharmaceuticals that promised to heal you and they made you sick? What about a ride at a theme park with no warning signs that failed and hurt you?
The whole marketing thing of these garbage devices is based around abusing trust. There are no warnings that you need to be an expert, in fact they claim the opposite.
The person is a rube, but only evil people abuse the trust of others and only evil people blame people for having their trust abused. Being able to trust people is good actually, and we should viciously beat to death everyone that violates social trust.
Hell yeah
How would you feel if you bought a hammer and then it broke your hand?
You wouldn’t feel anything at all, because it’s an inane scenario that can’t actually happen without you misusing the tool.
If someone told me the hammer was safe and I hit something with it, the temper was bad, it shattered and cut me, and it was established to be deliberate deception beyond even negligence I’d want my pound of flesh yeah
Live by the slop, die by the slop. Also: no backup, no pity
Lol, lmao even
We need a rofl in here
pmsl
roflmao
roflbsst
It’s nice that Google gives LLMs an excuse to get out of conversations that they’re done with.
Like how are I go into “appear offline” when someone who I don’t like tries to talk to me in Teams
The irony of having run out of tokens on that last message… “Your problem now, peace out. Or pony up”.
Great, we invented data protection rackets.
Why would you give AI access to the whole drive? Why would you allow AI run destructive commands on its own without reviewing them?
The guy was asking for it. I really enjoy seeing these vibe coders imagine they are software engineers and fail miserably with their drives and databases wiped.
If he knew what he was doing, would he need to be vibe coding? The target audience are exactly the people most susceptible to collateral damage.
I’ll probably get eaten here but here goes: I do use LLMs when coding. But those should NEVER be used when on unknown waters. To quickly get the 50 lines boilerplate and fill out the important 12 - sure. See how a nested something can be written in a syntax I’ve forgotten - yes. Get some example to know where to start searching the documentation from - ok. But “I asked it to do X, don’t understand what it spewed out, let’s roll”? Hell no, it’s a ticking bomb with a very short fuse. Unfortunately the marketing has pushed LLMs as things one can trust. I feel I’m already being treated like a zealot dev, afraid for his job, when I’m warning people around me to not trust the LLMs’ output below search engine query
I have a couple dev friends who were told by management that they need to be using AI, and they hate it.
I know not everyone is in a position where they can just ignore management, and maybe I’ve just been in more blue collar jobs where ignoring management is normalized. But unless they’re literally looking over your shoulder, what they don’t know won’t hurt them. It’s not like AI is more efficient once you count the extra debug time.
Ask the AI to forge a log of them using the AI to do their work so they can do their work the proper way and prove in a log they used AI?
Why would you ask AI to do any operation on even a single file, let alone an entire a local drive, that wasn’t backed up? I’ve been using and misusing computers for long enough that I have blown up my own shit many times in many stupid ways though, so I can’t honestly say that 20 years ago this wouldn’t have been me lol.
I don’t know how this one works but many of them can get access through the IDE because the IDE has full disk access, due to being an IDE.
LLMs sometimes use a MCP server to access tools which are usually coded to require consent before each step, but that should probably be an always type of thing.
I hate these stupid things, but I am forced to use them. I think there should be a suggested patch type workflow instead of just allowing them to run roughshod all over your computer, but Google and Microsoft are pursuing “YOLO mode” for everything anyway even if it’s alarmingly obvious how terrible an idea that is.
We have containers and VMs, these fucking things should be isolated and it should be impossible for them to alter files without consent.
That here is the core of the problem.
LLMs are like a power saw whose blade is attached by a chain. You don’t know what it’s going to cut.
files are overrated anyway when you got antigravity
Just ask the AI to generate you new, better files
