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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

imo it's more accurate to call it polarizing and get you blacklisted by the types of people you maybe don't want using your code anyways. Personally anyone doing this I'm going to be more likely to use their code

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I understand the sentiment, if you don’t like AI code generation you’re probably thinking you’re on the same side. But what happens if this person finds something else they hate that you don’t hate, and finds a way to sabotage that? They’ve already demonstrated a willingness to be destructive. And you’re running their code so they don’t need anything even remotely as dumb as some AI agents to exploit, they can just write destructive code normally.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Is it merely hating AI code generation or is it "AI code generation is in practice anti-FOSS" (unless there's an ethical AI out there, trained exclusively on public domain code, that I don't know about)?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You can decide if you want to use it or not, at your own risk. It's free software, written by people in their free time, they owe you nothing.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Sure, you have that right.

    And companies will exercise that right by blanket blacklisting everything related to you which can have huge sweeping impacts on your career lol

    Its a super super stupid move to make. You are free to do a lotta other shit that tanks your career too lol

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago

    by the types of people you maybe don’t want using your code anyways

    ...companies? Sure I guess, if you want to angle your career trajectory towards "unemployable" by all means lol.

    Personally anyone doing this I’m going to be more likely to use their code

    I am a tech lead, if any dev under me intentionally added/used a tool to our systems because it had malicious undocumented behaviors of any kind, they would be fired immediately and any company that contacted us for reference would be informed of their behavior.

    To be clear, this is the scenario of

    Me: hey I saw you installed [tool], that thing is flagged by our systems for the maintainers having done malicious undocumented stuff in the past

    Dev: haha yeah thats why I used it

    Me: you are joking right?

    Thatd be an instant high level escalation to "strip this person of privs and get them off our system asap, and HR now has to be involved"

    You dont fuckin do shit like that in a real company if you wanna stay employed lol.

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