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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 300 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bonus points if the attackers use ai to script their attacks, too. We can fully automate the SaaS cycle!

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 121 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That is the real dead Internet theory: everything from production to malicious actors to end users are all ai scripts wasting electricity and hardware resources for the benefit of no human.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 50 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Seems like a fitting end to the internet, imo. Or the recipe for the Singularity.

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not only internet. Soon everybody will use AI for everything. Lawyers will use AI in court on both sides. AI will fight against AI.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was at a coffee shop the other day and 2 lawyers were discussing how they were doing stuff with ai that they didn't know anything about and then just send to their clients.

That shit scared the hell out of me.

And everything will just keep getting worse with more and more common folk eating the hype and brainwash using these highly incorrect tools in all levels of our society everyday to make decisions about things they have no idea about.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 170 points 1 week ago (6 children)

AI is yet another technology that enables morons to think they can cut out the middleman of programming staff, only to very quickly realise that we're more than just monkeys with typewriters.

[–] alp@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Well I think I am a monkey with a typewriter...

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 76 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah! I have two typewriters!

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

We're monkeys with COMPUTERS!!!

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[–] allo@sh.itjust.works 141 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hilarious and true.

last week some new up and coming coder was showing me their tons and tons of sites made with the help of chatGPT. They all look great on the front end. So I tried to use one. Error. Tried to use another. Error. Mentioned the errors and they brushed it off. I am 99% sure they do not have the coding experience to fix the errors. I politely disconnected from them at that point.

What's worse is when a noncoder asks me, a coder, to look over and fix their ai generated code. My response is "no, but if you set aside an hour I will teach you how HTML works so you can fix it yourself." Never has one of these kids asking ai to code things accepted which, to me, means they aren't worth my time. Don't let them use you like that. You aren't another tool they can combine with ai to generate things correctly without having to learn things themselves.

[–] _carmin@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Coder? You havent been to university right?

[–] Thoven 62 points 1 week ago

100% this. I've gotten to where when people try and rope me into their new million dollar app idea I tell them that there are fantastic resources online to teach yourself to do everything they need. I offer to help them find those resources and even help when they get stuck. I've probably done this dozens of times by now. No bites yet. All those millions wasted...

I've been a professional full stack dev for 15 years and dabbled for years before that - I can absolutely code and know what I'm doing (and have used cursor and just deleted most of what it made for me when I let it run)

But my frontends have never looked better.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 113 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ha, you fools still pay for doors and locks? My house is now 100% done with fake locks and doors, they are so much lighter and easier to install.

Wait! why am I always getting robbed lately, it can not be my fake locks and doors! It has to be weirdos online following what I do.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago

"If you don't have organic intelligence at home, store-bought is fine." - leo (probably)

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 60 points 1 week ago (42 children)

The fact that “AI” hallucinates so extensively and gratuitously just means that the only way it can benefit software development is as a gaggle of coked-up juniors making a senior incapable of working on their own stuff because they’re constantly in janitorial mode.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So no change to how it was before then

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[–] electric@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is the implication that he made a super insecure program and left the token for his AI thing in the code as well? Or is he actually being hacked because others are coping?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 157 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nobody knows. Literally nobody, including him, because he doesn't understand the code!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Nah the people doing the pro bono pen testing know. At least for the frontend side and maybe some of the backend.

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[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI writes shitty code that's full of security holes, and Leo here has probably taken zero steps to further secure his code. He broadcasts his AI written software and its open season for hackers.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, yes there are weird people out there. That's the whole point of having humans able to understand the code be able to correct it.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Chatgpt make this code secure against weird people trying to crash and exploit it ot

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[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 46 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Reminds me of the days before ai assistants where people copy pasted code from forums and then you’d get quesitions like “I found this code and I know what every line does except this ‘for( int i = 0; i < 10; i ++)’ part. Is this someone using an unsupported expression?”

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (10 children)

An otherwise meh article concluded with "It is in everyone’s interest to gradually adjust to the notion that technology can now perform tasks once thought to require years of specialized education and experience."

Much as we want to point and laugh - this is not some loon's fantasy. This is happening. Some dingus told spicy autocomplete 'make me a database!' and it did. It's surely as exploit-hardened as a wet paper towel, but it functions. Largely as a demonstration of Kernighan's law.

This tech is borderline miraculous, even if it's primarily celebrated by the dumbest motherfuckers alive. The generation and the debugging will inevitably improve to where the machine is only as bad at this as we are. We will be left with the hard problem of deciding what the software is supposed to do.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago

I hope this is satire 😭

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (18 children)

This is satire / trolling for sure.

LLMs aren't really at the point where they can spit out an entire program, including handling deployment, environments, etc. without human intervention.

If this person is 'not technical' they wouldn't have been able to successfully deploy and interconnect all of the pieces needed.

The AI may have been able to spit out snippets, and those snippets may be very useful, but where it stands, it's just not going to be able to, with no human supervision/overrides, write the software, stand up the DB, and deploy all of the services needed. With human guidance sure, but with out someone holding the AIs hand it just won't happen (remember this person is 'not technical')

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

My impression is that with some guidance it can put together a basic skeleton of complex stuff too. But you need a specialist level of knowledge to fix the fail at compile level mistakes or worse yet mistakes that compile but don't at all achieve the intended result. To me it has been most useful at getting the correct arguments for argument heavy libraries like plotly, remembering how to do stuff in bash or learning something from scratch like 3js. Soon as you try to do something more complex than it can handle, it confidently starts cycling through the same couple of mistakes over and over. The key words it spews in those mistakes can sometimes be helpful to direct your search online though.

So it has the potential to be helpful to a programmer but it cant yet replace programmers as tech bros like to fantasize about.

[–] allo@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

idk ive seen some crazy complicated stuff woven together by people who cant code. I've got a friend who has no job and is trying to make a living off coding while, for 15+ years being totally unable to learn coding. Some of the things they make are surprisingly complex. Tho also, and the person mentioned here may do similarly, they don't ONLY use ai. They use Github alot too. They make nearly nothing themself, but go thru github and basically combine large chunks of code others have made with ai generated code. Somehow they do it well enough to have done things with servers, cryptocurrency, etc... all the while not knowing any coding language.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

That reminds me of this comic strip....

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[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you don't know what your own code does, you lose the ability to manage it, that is precisely why AI won't take programmer's jobs.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don’t need ai to not know what my code does

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