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Not sure if that’s better or worse

Just redirecting /dev/urandom to the master boot record and hoping for the best

They are obviously systemic issues with using LLMs for this kind of work but having seen the copilot prompts after it was open-sourced I'm not surprised and can only imagine what others are using. "You are a 10x engineer and know everything"

I think in any modern environment where reliability matters, that would be the expectation! But it seems like norms are shifting quickly, and not for the better.

I'm having vivid flashbacks to Gitlab's accidental prod-DB-drop from a while back and the excellent post-mortem they did and published, including extensive documentation on what mistakes not just the engineer most directly responsible but those that should have been caught by more senior people.

and it shouldn’t happen to anybody.

i do feel bad for him tho. these tools are designed to milk suckers like him and it’s outrageous

Magic box go brrraaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!

I'm wondering what testing they do because these are basic gaps.

needless to say this should’ve been a day 1 thing, way before even rolling out to alpha testers

Completely unserious people.

A missing feature is nothing to work on the weekend for. Kinda stupid tbh

Wooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

So... that's definitely real? I 100% assumed it was just someone doing a bit. Good lord.

Boggled that people who should understand this thing as a plausible-text-generator come to believe it's a moral actor for whom concepts like permission and fault and truth have meaning.

I had a bunch of pairs of glitch apps so I could mess around with one and only update the other when I was satisfied things worked. It was really easy to do! Just so happens that I spent today testing stuff on codepen for this very reason…

Phew. I think maybe some folks on the team may write things up once everybody has sort of had some time to grieve.