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Best way to sabotage AI at work? (hexbear.net)
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At work we will soon be getting access to agentic AI that parses through our gigantic code base and burns through money for very simple requests.

What would be the best way to maliciously comply with the management's decision for AI usage to be an everyday thing you are expected to do without getting found out?

My idea is spamming the living shit out of the most expensive models for pointless tasks and then insisting that the result is wrong, and work in the meantime. Nobody can complain if my work is still good, but they will notice that the AI budget is not worth it and stop the hype train.

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[-] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Introducing code for LLMs to choke on is a great idea. Develop some very specific syntax or structure that training data hasn't touched, then make it load bearing.

Better yet, find a way to use delimiters, escape sequences, and syntax symbols that are known to interact with Markdown features, so that producing valid syntax for your DSL requires escaping everywhere to avoid fucking up the Markdown LLM output.

this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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