Read about a guy whose LLM instance nuked his entire client and lead database without notification and against explicit instruction. Lol, said the scorpion, lmao
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It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. It'd be sad it if it wasn't so fucking funny
jul 21, 2025, 8:55 am • 2 0 • view
The LLMs devs, in order to try to fix...something, decided to finally implement rollbacks and a sandbox mode. That is, they launched a paid coding tool that directly wrote changes to prod without any ability to review, work safely, or rollback errors.
jul 21, 2025, 7:07 am • 16 0 • view
literally didn't even have like A daily backup
jul 21, 2025, 8:08 am • 2 0 • view
As far as I understand it, the LLM toolbox thingy actually did have a rollback function, but of course the LLM chatbot lied about that too.
jul 21, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Folks, if you're scared of LLM-using ubermensches 1000x-ing you at your job - don't be. Your job is safe, I promise.
jul 21, 2025, 7:08 am • 14 0 • view
If you wanna start your day off with a chuckle, read this: xcancel.com/jasonlk/stat...
jul 21, 2025, 7:11 am • 16 1 • view
Oh this is good. As someone who works with physical tools this is hilarious.
jul 21, 2025, 11:29 am • 3 0 • view
Maybe because I came to development later in life, but the actual philosophy is “move fast and break things.” Imagine doing that while installing cabinetry. While we don’t accumulate physical excess, we do create code excess (debt, slop, etc) which can slow and break an app.
jul 21, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
The whole philosophy around it is “as long as it works mostly, launch it, we need the revenue.” Thing is, that situation never changes. And so each update and new feature is half-assed. At this point, it’s the bosses doing this. Devs are sick of it. Yet they fall for this shit.
jul 21, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 1 • view
It just has to be good enough to maximize profit without becoming a real liability in a short enough time to eat their bonuses.
jul 21, 2025, 1:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Even if it eats the bonuses that’s not a big deal. For bosses and founders that can actually become a part of the “self-sacrifice” narrative they feed to the VC they’re trying to sell the barely-functional app to. Then the VC fires the devs who know the code, enshittify it even more, and laugh.
jul 21, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Hype it, ship it, get paid and GTFO before it costs anything to fix. I get it.
jul 21, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Every installer I know who has ever tried this approach to business was out of business quickly. I think it’s because websites aren’t structural - but sometimes they are, and there’s no regulations (or few) around its structural integrity in those cases.
jul 21, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Behind every startup that enshittified is a founder who had a good idea and enough knowledge to get started, and 3-7 developers who actually built it and then got shafted.
jul 21, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
It always cracks me up that developers of all people tend to be the ones most prone to fads and idiotic marketing. If ever there were a case for STEM + Liberal Arts. I barely trust AI for copy and paste. No way I’m giving it CRUD access to anything.
jul 21, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
"Man using Torment Nexus shocked that it tormented him personally".
jul 21, 2025, 7:08 am • 6 0 • view
I linked the original thread, it's glorious and only keeps getting better
jul 21, 2025, 7:12 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, it's...
jul 21, 2025, 7:15 am • 3 0 • view
The logical culmination of Agile — just automate the iterative process and assign a button pusher minder. These bros brains are so cooked lol. There was a logic to the deliberative process in Waterfall after all.
jul 21, 2025, 7:16 am • 4 0 • view
Can't even mind the buttons, your "tool" will happily lie to about it.
jul 21, 2025, 7:17 am • 8 0 • view
Just read through the thread you posted and omg, it’s worse than I thought lmao.
jul 21, 2025, 7:18 am • 4 0 • view
I've never deleted critical corporate databases out of panic, but I'm not a cold and calculating logic-maximizing machine.
jul 21, 2025, 7:20 am • 7 1 • view
Well I have. Years ago I once overwrote a critical branch of the LDAP with a badly written script, which for some reason was used as a database — in front of a visiting EVP during my presentation. Then I volunteered myself to the DR team. Thankfully we reconstructed the lost data so I kept my job 😂
jul 21, 2025, 7:26 am • 6 0 • view
That already puts even your mistakes as ahead of the LLM.
jul 21, 2025, 7:27 am • 4 0 • view
Humans will always be the original idiots, but at least we can learn!
jul 21, 2025, 7:29 am • 4 0 • view
"an LLM is as effective as a junior software engineer" *monkey's paw curls into a fist
jul 21, 2025, 7:15 am • 12 0 • view
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
jul 21, 2025, 7:17 am • 9 0 • view