the "rm" at the start ought to have clued them in to take a closer look???
@cturnbow @peter Not if they literally computer-illiterate.
To avoid learning it, they use ChatGPT.
The funny thing is, if they'd copied the "script" ChatGPT suggested to the user to a different ChatGPT and asked the idiot AI to explain what it does, it would probably spit out a horrific enough description (even if not an entirely correct one) that the user would have refused to run it.
But that would be too inconvenient.
Well, recreating a year of work seems way more convenient to me.
As I keep repeating myself till I'm hoarse, if you use AI (especially LLM, but actually on a second thought, that applies to simple data predictors too) output, be very aware where that output came from, and check it in a manner that is appropriate for the usage.
For code, that generally means you should understand it. Be it a multiline bash command (oops that was my home directory) or some code that you plan to check in into a project (you better be able to maintain and debug it, right?)
@cturnbow @peter I could tell you fascinating, scary bed time stories for little software developers.
E.g. of an MBA (who at the time I had the questionable privilege of consulting for the bank) had risen to be the dept head, who had a cool idea, when he was young and just joined the bank. He wrote a piece of critical security software for the bank (let's call it an http level firewall). But he was young and down in the hierarchy, so he wrote the software himself. In C. 1/
As his first project in C, learning C. (Btw, my job was to port this "officially" ANSI-C program from one Unix to another. It has a number, of let's call it unorthodox coding idioms, that made it slightly dependent on the Unix version and the CPU architecture. Only slightly.)
In a way the guy was a genius, but OTOH it was also a showcase of everything what is wrong in commercial IT.
So just because somebody has a knife in her/his hand, please don't assume they know which side is the sharp one.
"So just because somebody has a knife in her/his hand, please don't assume they know which side is the sharp one."
Quite right. Myself, for example, and I've been a professional developer since 1998 😁
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@peter
Children finding daddy's gun he left lying around for them to find. That's what LLMs are.
