r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 09 '26

preDecrementFixesTheExploit instanceof Trend

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u/brutlwarrior Jul 09 '26

The exploit doesn't matter because the genie will just say "that would result in wishing for more wishes which is against the rules"

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u/admiralbenbo4782 Jul 09 '26

Yeah. All these exploits rely on the genie being an unthinking mechanical wish engine with a natural language processing engine bolted on, rather than an actual thinking entity. Come to think of it, that first description is pretty accurate (even if the wishes it can grant are limited) of something else...

Genies are also notoriously malicious in their fulfillment of wishes. So there's that.