You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here • Hacker News Board

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by byb » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

antiquark wrote: post #52

Nice ending: > The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.

We are witnessing a new eternal summer and the only way to stem to tide is to increase the amount of required personal identifying information to register, and then publicly shame these people as a warning to others. Maybe it is a good thing that I don't run any massively popular open source projects.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#102

Post by kevincox » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

antiquark wrote: post #52

Nice ending: > The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.

It's not really a great ending. They or people like them just opened 3 new accounts. They just closed this one because it was tainted.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by dansmith1919 » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:37 AM UTC

unmole wrote: post #98

Havoc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes me wonder whether the submitter even speaks english

The username sounds Turkish. Make what you will of it.

So... nothing? Because I'm also not from an English speaking country and I speak English.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by henrebotha » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:37 AM UTC

yreg wrote: post #51

chinathrow wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The '—' gave it away. No one types this character on purpose.

I do all the time, but might have to stop. Same with `…`.

Don't let them win. Stand proud with your "–" and your "—" and your "…" and your "×".

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#105

Post by gryfft » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:37 AM UTC

l5870uoo9y wrote: post #19

dansmith1919 wrote: post #10

Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply: > Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproduc…

This reads as an AI generated response as well with the; "thanks", "you're right", flawless grammar, and plenty of technical references.

I think you might be onto something-- perhaps something from the first sentence of the post to which you are replying.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by punkbit » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

vjk800 wrote: post #88

What is the motivation for people doing this? Is it just for the lols or are they making money out of this somehow?

Possible bug bounty program.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#107

Post by Dilettante_ » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:39 AM UTC

henrebotha wrote: post #95

zaphodias wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there are humans involved. I've now seen countless PRs to some repos I maintain that claim to be fixing non-existent bugs, or just fixing typos. One that I got recently didn't even correctly balanced the parenthesis in the code, ugh. I call this technique: "sprAI and prAI".

Hey don't hate on us humans who genuinely do open random PRs to random projects to fix typos. https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ahenrebotha+archi...

Thank you for your service o7

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#108

Post by belter » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:39 AM UTC

flumpcakes wrote: post #99

Has anyone seen a good use of AI in the wild? Every example I see is honestly depressing, such as this.

Its Code Generators all the way down...

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:40 AM UTC

Ralfp wrote: post #93

listic wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was it with em dash?

People usually don't type embdash, just use regular dash (minus sign) they have already on the keyboard. ChatGPT uses emdash instead.

Ahem.

https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...

As #9 on the leaderboard I feel like I need to defend myself.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by Dilettante_ » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 10:40 AM UTC

JustFinishedBSG wrote: post #64

jsheard wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the JS/Node scene was the pioneer in spamming emojis absolutely everywhere, well before AI. Maybe that's where the models picked it up from.

"FastThingJS: A blazing fast thing library for humans . Made with on "

I can still see them!