cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/programmer_humor/p/475451/don-t-do-ai-and-code-kids
Original Reddit thread: https://reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/
No sane IDE implementation lets LLMs run commands without a sandbox.
WTF is this?
my thoughts. the heck does a brain dead LLM have access to your file system or to do anything except interact with you lol
I mean, it makes sense inside like a docker container or VM.
...Not like this.
Which is also why I don't want tight AI integration on an OS. It's fine as a chatbot, not an administrator that I suspect MS will one day hand more control over their PC than they allow users.
An insane IDE implementation that lets LLMs run commands without a sandbox.
Unreal.
It’s like they’re trying to get the public to despise LLMs. It’s certainly working.
The copium in the reddit thread is hilarious.
"The issue is that you had a space in your path name"
No, the issue is that the AI wiped an entire drive! 🤣
I can't stand those types of people.
I mean, a lot of the people pointing that out are actually doing so to indicate the dangers of relying on AI in the first place.
If you read some OPs replies it becomes clear that what happened here is they asked the bot how to fix something, didn't understand the instructions it replied with, and then just went and said "Hey, I don't get it, so you do it for me."
Anyone who knew what they were doing would have noticed the bad delete command the bot presented (improperly formatted, and with no safety checks), but because OP figured "Hey, knowing stuff is for suckers", they ended up losing all their stuff.
How would you feel if you bought pharmaceuticals that promised to heal you and they made you sick? What about a ride at a theme park with no warning signs that failed and hurt you?
The whole marketing thing of these garbage devices is based around abusing trust. There are no warnings that you need to be an expert, in fact they claim the opposite.
The person is a rube, but only evil people abuse the trust of others and only evil people blame people for having their trust abused. Being able to trust people is good actually, and we should viciously beat to death everyone that violates social trust.
How would you feel if you bought a hammer and then it broke your hand?
You wouldn't feel anything at all, because it's an inane scenario that can't actually happen without you misusing the tool.
If someone told me the hammer was safe and I hit something with it, the temper was bad, it shattered and cut me, and it was established to be deliberate deception beyond even negligence I'd want my pound of flesh yeah
It's funny until you realize Google dumped $93M into convincing the general public that AI is the future before thrusting a half baked technology into our daily lives.
Well, there's the problem. In AI development $93m is nothing. Its like they threw a pocket change at a child and demanded industry leading AI.
I think this is just the cost of it's adverts
If they threw $93m at me, I'd start saying their large lying machine was the solution to all my problems.
D:
Perfection
I don't usually laugh aloud at comments, but this one got me. Thank you, and Happy Monday 🫠
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Outstanding
The irony of having run out of tokens on that last message... "Your problem now, peace out. Or pony up".
Great, we invented data protection rackets.
Why would you give AI access to the whole drive? Why would you allow AI run destructive commands on its own without reviewing them?
The guy was asking for it. I really enjoy seeing these vibe coders imagine they are software engineers and fail miserably with their drives and databases wiped.
If he knew what he was doing, would he need to be vibe coding? The target audience are exactly the people most susceptible to collateral damage.
I have a couple dev friends who were told by management that they need to be using AI, and they hate it.
I'll probably get eaten here but here goes: I do use LLMs when coding. But those should NEVER be used when on unknown waters. To quickly get the 50 lines boilerplate and fill out the important 12 - sure. See how a nested something can be written in a syntax I've forgotten - yes. Get some example to know where to start searching the documentation from - ok. But "I asked it to do X, don't understand what it spewed out, let's roll"? Hell no, it's a ticking bomb with a very short fuse. Unfortunately the marketing has pushed LLMs as things one can trust. I feel I'm already being treated like a zealot dev, afraid for his job, when I'm warning people around me to not trust the LLMs' output below search engine query
That here is the core of the problem.
Live by the slop, die by the slop. Also: no backup, no pity
IF (and this is a big if) you are going to allow an AI direct access to your files and your command line, for the love of Gabe sandbox that shit and run a backup for the folders you give it access to. We know AI makes mistakes like this. Just act as if you were giving your little brother access to your drives and your command line and it's his first day. I get we're all still learning about this stuff, but allowing an AI agent command-line access and full drive access, to a local drive you have no backup of, is just leaving Little Timmy at home alone with a loaded shotgun and a open bottle of pills level of irresponsibility.
Watching vibe coders get blown up by their own ignorance and stupidity is such a great past time. Fuck AI.
D:
His drive certainly did get the D:
Hilarious! I knew this was going to happen! Just not that fast!
Damn, Microsoft really just implemented their own version of the rm -rf / Russian roulette on their sad excuse for an OS.
It only took boiling an ocean for training the damn thing.
EDIT: Google did. We'll blame a Pavlovian reflex and lack of sleep (or anything other than my stupidity)...
Yes, Microsoft is moving this direction.
No, Microsoft is not in this post. Microsoft and Google have not yet merged.
It's nice that Google gives LLMs an excuse to get out of conversations that they're done with.
2017: we lock your data behind paywall without your authorisation, pay us 2 bitcoin to unlock it.
2025: whoops i deleted your D: drive, do check it for the extend of the damage.
Would people learn
Edit: omfg quota limit hit right after the drive is empty. Seriously why would people even allow AI to hold their egg basket. This is all on OOP.
Kinda a pity it wasn't the C drive. It would have uninstalled itself.
While also eliminating 12 jobs
Looks to be creating rather than reducing the work needed.
I don't feel threatened.
If they fire you and then make your coworker work twice as hard for the same pay, then you definitely should.
If they fire your coworker and make you work twice as hard for the same pay, then you definitely should.
If they fire both of you, and then give everyone in your town cancer from the toxic water runoff from a massive AI data center they just built, then you definitely should.
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.