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

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Post by koolba »

belter wrote: post #92
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…

Crazy on how the current 400 Billion AI bubble is based on this being feasible...

The rationale is that the AI companies are selling the shovels to both generate this pile as well as the ones we'll need to clean it up.

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

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Post by panstromek »

nialse wrote: post #74

Imagine if these “benevolent” erroneous AI bug reports were part of a coordinated effort to map how vulnerable the projects and maintainers are, not the code. Slow response, no response is a likely target for take over or exploits, and accepting code without review is an indication of ease of injecting a vulnerability.

It's interesting idea, I just wouldn't consider slow or no response as likely target, I think that's actually a good defense strategy for spam like this.

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

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Post by ChipopLeMoral »

zaphodias wrote: post #80
rapidaneurism wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if there was a human in the loop to begin with. I hope the future of CVS is not agents opening accounts and posting 'bugs'

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".

You're absolutely right! There are no humans involved and I apologize for that! Let me try that again and involve some humans this time, as well as correctly balancing the the parentheses. I understand your frustration and apologize for it, I am still learning as a model!

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

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Post by card_zero »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #79
phinnaeus wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best I can do is a system that gives you a random answer no matter how much time you give it.

Great! 80-20, Pareto principle, we're gonna use that! We are as good as done with the task. Everyone take phinnaeus as an example. This is how you get things done. We move quickly and break things. Remember our motto.

Break things and run away, got it.

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

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Post by ffsm8 »

raincole wrote: post #53
badgersnake wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people actually do that on Github too. Absolute psychopaths.

It was far before ChatGPT. I remember once on a Show HN post I commented something along the line with "The number of emoji in README makes it very hard for me to take this repo seriously" and my comment got (probably righteously) downvoted to dead.

I think I remember exactly what you're talking about, even though I completely forgot what software it was.

I believe it was a technical documentation and the author wanted to create visual associations with acteurs in the given example. Like clock for async process of ordering, (food -) order, Burger etc.

I don't remember if I commented on the issue myself, but I do remember that it reduced readability a lot - at least for me.

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

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Post by belter »

karel-3d wrote: post #78

This is the AI that is now writing the next version of your operating system.

This is the AI adding more "growth" to the US economy than all consumer spending combined.

"The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy" - https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-so-big-...

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

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Post by joz1-k »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #94
rsynnott wrote: post #9

This must be _absolutely exhausting_.

Yeah, I guess if I was him, I would just close issues silently and ban the person who created them, if possible. I don't think I could be as nice as he is.

The problem is that AI can generate answers and code that look relevant and as if they were written by someone very competent. Since AI can generate a huge amount of code in a short time, it's difficult for the human brain to analyze it all and determine whether it's useful or just BS.

And the worst case is when AI generates great code with a tiny, hard-to-discover catch that takes hours to spot and understand.

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

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Post by Retr0id »

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.

If someone is using AI effectively, there's often no way to tell that they're using AI at all. Toupée fallacy etc.
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