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[–] nomen_dubium@startrek.website 157 points 1 day ago

the "you have reached your quota limit" at the end is just such a cherry on top xD

[–] Zink@programming.dev 107 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Wow, this is really impressive y'all!

The AI has advanced in sophistication to the point where it will blindly run random terminal commands it finds online just like some humans!

I wonder if it knows how to remove the french language package.

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 393 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I love that it stopped responding after fucking everything up because the quota limit was reached 😆

It's like a Jr. Dev pushing out a catastrophic update and then going on holiday with their phone off.

[–] hypnicjerk@piefed.social 65 points 1 day ago

that's how you know a junior dev is senior material

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're learning, god help us all. jk

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[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Super fun to think one could end up softlocked out of their computer because they didnt pay their windows bill that month.

"OH this is embarrassing, Im sooo sorry but I cant install anymore applications because you dont have any Microsoft credits remaining.

You may continue with this action if you watch this 30 minute ad."

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 117 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"How AI manages to do that?"

Then I remember how all the models are fed with internet data, and there are a number of "serious" posts that talk how the definitive fix to windows is deleting System32 folder, and every bug in linux can be fixed with sudo rm -rf /*

The fact that my 4chan shitposts from 2012 are now causing havoc inside of an AI is not something I would have guessed happening but, holy shit, that is incredible.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The /bin dir on any Linux install is the recycle bin. Save space by regularly deleting its contents

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have a question. I have tried Cursor and one more AI coding tool, and as far as I can remember, they always ask explicit permission before running a command in terminal. They can edit file contents without permission but creating new files and deleting any files requires the user to say yes to it.

Is Google not doing this? Or am I missing something?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

You can give cursor the permission to always run a certain command without asking (useful for running tests or git commands). Maybe they did that with rm?

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 244 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (31 children)

I feel actually insulted when a machine is using the word "sincere".

Its. A. Machine.

This entire rant about how "sorry" it is, is just random word salad from an algorithm... But people want to read it, it seems.

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you give it permission to do it? No. Did you tell it not to do it? Also, no. See, there’s your problem. You forgot to tell it to not do something it shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

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Damn this is insane. Using claude/cursor for work is near, but they have a mode literally called "yolo mode" which is this. Agents allowed to run whatever code they like, which is insane. I allow it to do basic things, you can search the repo and read code files, but goddamn allowing it to do whatever it wants? Hard no

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago (8 children)

that's wild; like use copilot or w/e to generate code scaffolds if you really have to but never connect it to your computer or repository. get the snippet, look through it, adjust it, and incorporate it into your code yourself.

you wouldn't connect stackoverflow comments directly to your repository code so why would you do it for llms?

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Stochastic rm /* -rf code runner.

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[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago
[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Agentic" means you're in the passenger's rather than driver's seat... And the driver is high af

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 122 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Everyone should know most of the time the data is still there when a file is deleted. If it's important try testdisk or photorec. If it's critical pay for professional recovery.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 120 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

If its critical, don't give it to ai without having a secured backup it can’t touch.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fucking ai agents and not knowing which directory to run commands in. Drives me bonkers. Constantly tries to git commit root or temp or whatever then starts debugging why that didn't work lol

I wish they would just be containerised virtual environments for them to work in

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 57 points 1 day ago (7 children)

and then realize microsoft and google are both pushing toward "fully agentic" operating systems. every file is going to be at risk of random deletion

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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I aM hOrr1fiEd I tEll yUo! Beep-boop.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Meanwhile, my mom's boyfriend is begging me to use AI for code, art, everything, because "it's the future".

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Another smarter human pointed this out and it stuck with me: the guys most hyped about AI are good at nothing and thus can't see how bad it is at everything. It's like the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

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