Troy Hunt has been a pillar in the cybersecurity community with his Have I Been Pwned project for many, many years, even walked back a purchase of it because he felt they would compromise the principles of the project. But now he has just gone all-in on AI. On a previous Weeky Update he published a "Robophobia Equality Policy" after receiving pushback to his openclaw usage. Since then he has posted more of his usage of AI, and in the latest he suggest that "people are getting into the program" because he seems to be receiving less pushback and because of Linus' affirmations

Text of Troy Hunt's Weekly Update 526, quoting: "I have this sense that we've passed the point where "vibe coding" is a derogatory term. I have no empirical evidence for this; it's more a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted the inevitability and are just getting with the program."

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[–] 42 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Unrelated to his stance on AI, unironically using the term “SI” completely lost my trust in HIBP.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I feel like I'm watching the collapse of society in real time. Even Linus fell to AI bullshittery recently.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I wonder what’ll happen after the crash. Will people like Hunt stay in this weird mindplace where reality is bent until it breaks, or will they come back to the real world?

    Talking about robophobic exclusionary behaviour and SI seems like he's developed serious mental issues.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 days ago

    Anyone calling it Super Intelligence is a moron anyway.

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  • [–] 137 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    putting SI as a alternate name in apparent support for trump's dumb shit is just the cherry on top of the shitcake

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  • [–] 22 points 2 days ago

    Great way to have people tell on themselves, however.

    A red flag doesn't even describe it. It's more like a jolly roger or a hazmat placard. They are announcing their tacit support for an idiot fascist.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    SI as an acronym is already very widely used globally, so it annoys me that it's encroaching on a more useful acronym also.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago*

    Linus also said competent, which means it’s being tested before it’s committed, etc. This person is just fulfilling his bias. The AI cuck coders won’t be testing because they’re tired of testing AI’s fuck ups.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

    LOL, no.

    Vibe coding is still 100% a derogatory term. Go use MS Teams for a day if you think vibe coding produces anything useful. There are new bugs every single day that we have to work around, as MS apparently vibe codes this shit AND no longer properly tests their work product before releasing it.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Its been shitty before vibecoding

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  • [–] 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    No one would have ever called it 'vibe coding' if they wanted it to be taken seriously, and/or respected.

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    [–] 34 points 2 days ago (9 children)

    a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted

    That's an interesting approach, to declare that everyone who says it "doesn't really mean it"

    Linus Torvalds

    Linus' take was more nuanced, I'm not sure I agree, but at the same time he was talking up AI, he also expressed that he saw it as useful for onboarding, review, and throwaway efforts in fields you don't get. Also he made the caveat that he doesn't really code the kernel so much anymore, so he explicitly stated he had lost some perspective. Also that it wasn't suitable for full-on "vibing" maintainable code. However AI bros have gone all in on feeling vindicated and feeling like Linus said the kernel should be vibe coded now.

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    Fuck HBIP, fuck Troy Hunt.

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