The lawyer: "You did WHAT??"
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The lawyer: pushes his own button
The lawyer: Not only that, but PUBLICLY ADMITTED IT?!
Well that's one way to never get another job again.
Killing company honorable though.
If you’re that good, you can contract yourself out.
The future is self-employment and unions.
Of the two I’ll pick wandering into the forest and dying of exposure.
That's quitter talk, I believe in your ability to become a mystic mountain/forest/cave person that people hear rumors about when hiking the trails during a full moon.
Be the eldritch horror you want to see in the world.
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In many cases, you pretty much didn't exist before you stepped through the doors at your new company. People in all departments are too overloaded with work to take their time properly vetting every person joining the circus
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I'd hire him.
I mean, I don't have a company, or employees, but if I did.....I'd hire him.
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So how did you test it?
Presses button
Syntax error on line 1
Shit…
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I hate AI. But this should realistically be called a "arrest me" button.
Yes, you're correct, fighting back often requires personal sacrifices.
I really hope this kind of stand off becomes normalized. We can all lose.
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big companies leeching off open source and getting their products leaked after a single phishing mail never stops being entertaining
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You could probably make it look like an accident. "I guess the LLM was having trouble reaching my account after I was deleted, so it posted everything to pastebin so I could see it there"
Still risky and a funnier fantasy than good idea.
That's actually somewhat plausible, I saw a vid earlier today from some one talking about how their work coding AI agent noticed that their NPM was set to only update package dependencies 7 days after release because ya know best security practices and all that
It "helpfully" set it to 0 because they would miss top features otherwise LMAO
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I would also call it “Sue me lol” button
i am pretty sure he's smart enough to understand this. more people should be willing to make these decisions despite personal costs, otherwise we are proving everyone right who says americans are complacent etc etc
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I know it's a meme but I'd notify the lawyer before coding that, they'll laugh themselves silly. Electronic vandalism is still vandalism only the damages are higher.
But if AI executes it...
If AI is so smart (it's not) it can take your job, then it should clearly recognize what is clearly meant as a joke...
If I damage $25k worth of stuff that's my problem
If I damage $25 million worth of code that's my former employer's problem
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It’s so wild to see all the fucking hall monitors in here wagging their fingers.
You all deserve whatever you get.
I'm just concerned about their poor opsec
Agreed, if this is true you should not be posting about it at all no matter where it is. It's best to just keep it quiet because the company at this point can probably get law enforcement involved if they ID the person. The only time a company should know something is going on in this situation your lawyer should already be fully involved.
Suggestion: instead of doing all that directly, the button adds these instructions to the SKILLS file and hope some AI take the bait one day.
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My first thought was how do you test this actually works?
You ask AI to not delete the production database. Very reliable
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If you've ever been let go by a corp you know you're gonna need some sort of remote trigger. They'll say "Can I see you for a minute?" and then BOOM! out the door.
Deadman switch. Hit the button before all meetings and if you aren't back in 2 hours to disable it then it would execute.
Run it on a separate machine / account. In big corporate environments, your user account could be disabled by the time you walk into the meeting room.
Better solution, if you can, work for open source companies: at least the codebase is already public!
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Have you accounted for your access being revoked before you are notified about your fate?
Depends on whether HR and IT are competent.
If they're going all in on AI, I have my doubts.
I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren't necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position
Yea, this is the reason I held my tongue when the company CEO who laid me off last year (Who I worked directly under) posted something about investing in the people who further their goals. Because I had a bunch of very snarky I could have clapped back with, but I decided to not burn the bridge
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ways to be sued to suicide 1145.
How do you test that it actually works?
Create a file named "test" then confirm you can push it to public, rename the test string in your script to .env and then realise you didn't account for special characters in strings! SHIT!
Did this once to a company that treated me disrespectful. In the 90s when I still worked. To not go into any detail: Set a timer for 7 months after I was gone. Virus started infecting everything slowly so that even the backups were useless. I knew their schedule, it was not optimal and not very secure. Well, another few months later, company was sold cheap. Employees taken over and all happy now.
Having a criminal defense lawyer on standby is considered best practice.
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