Another supply chain attack waiting?

Have you tried just adding an instruction to be terse?

Don't get me wrong, I've tried out caveman as well, but these days I am wondering whether something as popular will be hijacked.

People are really trigger-happy when it comes to throwing magic tools on top of AI that claim to "fix" the weak parts (often placeboing themselves because anthropic just fixed some issue on their end).

Then the next month 90% of this can be replaced with new batch of supply chain attack-friendly gimmicks

Especially Reddit seems to be full of such coding voodoo

My favorite to chuckle at are the prompt hack voodoo stuff, like, “tell it to be correct” or “say please” or “tell it someone will die if it doesnt do a good job,” often presented very seriously and with some fast cutting animations in a 30 second reel

Make no mistakes!

> coding voodoo

Well, we've sacrificed the precision of actual programming languages for the ease of English prose interpreted by a non-deterministic black box that we can't reliably measure the outputs of. It's only natural that people are trying to determine the magical incantations required to get correct, consistent results.

Same for me.

I cancelled my subscription and will be moving to Codex for the time being.

Tokens are way too opaque and Claude was way smarter for my work a couple of months ago.

If you have an option, never ever use Oracle!

Never!

It's basicy gas lighting at this point

A bug for one side can be a feature for another

I measured it for my specific usecases and have cancelled my Anthropic subscription (the Max x20 Plan)

I am deeply sorry for your experience and I totally understand that it triggers something, but let's be ice cold logical for a moment.

If there is no evidence of a crime, you cannot prosecute someone in a constitutional democracy.

If you could you could just make up any claims and get rid of people you simply despise.

Which happens in various regimes...

So although it's certainly a possibility that such cases happened, as long as there is no evidence that they happened, they didn't for all legal matters.

We are discussing the pardon power, an explicitly anti-democratic measure that is unilateral and unreviewable. The constitution defines a federal republic, not a democracy.

Not everything originally in the Constitution is a good idea, or at least isn't anymore. That's why it specifies an amendment process.

I wish detractors would follow the Article V process rather than amendment by usurpation, as George Washington condemned it.

So, how are you gonna prove I didn't write some code?

How am I gonna prove I did?

They do not have to prove anything.

They can just generate the same code with an AI assistant, and then it is you who cannot claim that their code infringes the copyright that you claim for the code that you have written with assistance.

So neither of the 2 parties that have used an AI assistant is able to prevent the other party to use the generated code.

I consider this as a rather good outcome and not as a disadvantage of using AI assistants. However, this may be construed as a problem by the stupid corporate lawyers who insist that any product of the company must use only software IP than is the property of the company.

These kind of lawyers are encountered in many companies and they are the main reason for the low software productivity that was typical in many places before the use of AI assistants.

I wonder how many of those lawyers have already understood that this new fashion of using AI is incompatible with their mandated policies, which have always been the main blocker against efficient software reuse.

I was talking more generally about the "You can't patent or copyright code that was generated with an LLM".

Who can prove that I didn't write the code myself? And if I did, how am I to prove it?

That goes in both directions.

It's not like there is a watermark in the code telling the whole wide world that this was AI generated or human made.

So I write code (with or without an AI assistant) and claim copyright... they generate the same code. I sue them.

How does any of us prove that we wrote the code by hand?

I've been on Linux (I use Arch btw) since 2011.

I've been dual booting the first couple of years, then dumped Windows completely in 2016.

Since then I am on Linux only. Private and corporate.

Yes, sometimes I need to access a Windows machine or do work in one (I am my own boss), but then the client pays a "pain tax" as I call it.

There are some games I can't play I would've played in the past. Mostly competitive online games.

Technically that's annoying, but for me personally it's not a problem as I am not in my teens of twenties anymore and I have other hobbies and obligations.