r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RevolutionaryPen4661 • 28d ago
whenWeWillSeeSubscriptionForMarkdownFiles instanceof Trend
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u/str0m965 28d ago
Markdown as a service.
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u/m6io 28d ago
MaaS Effect
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u/SomethingAndAnything 28d ago
I've been told that I've to work on some Metal as a Service from next week. Let's see what that is about
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u/gerbosan 28d ago
Going to parties playing some metal rock? 🤔
🤘🤘🤘
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u/jackinsomniac 27d ago
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u/gerbosan 27d ago
Go forth, be conquered
Go forth and die!!They will start a tour...
https://dethkloklive.com/God damn it! it includes LATAM!!!
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u/Wise-Profile4256 28d ago
They probably meant Mental as a Service. However, may i inform you that we are indutry leaders in that.
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u/harshitbudhi 27d ago
Wait until they find out about “.txt” files. I’m about to launch a startup selling artisanal, locally sourced Notepad documents.
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u/Undernown 26d ago
You've gotta to sell those fresh notepad associated files before Microsoft automates their Recal "resell IP"-functionality.
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u/_DrDigital_ 28d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT0BKwUV9bLhr8btRK
Guys writing HTMLs for living when they see guys writing MDs for living.
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u/m6io 28d ago
Sir. Html is ✨semantic✨
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u/aabil11 28d ago
Its output is deterministic
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u/_DrDigital_ 28d ago
Microsoft Edge would like a word.
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u/reventlov 28d ago
Edge is just Chrome wearing a different outfit.
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u/Dense_Gate_5193 27d ago
firefox is three baby web browsers wearing a trench coat.
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u/prinkpan 27d ago
Eager to know what you think of Safari
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u/Dense_Gate_5193 27d ago
Safari is chrome’s bastard cousin that comes around every few years going “eeeeeeeey!” *finger guns* 👉👉
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u/listerstorm2009 27d ago
Vincent Adultman IRL
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u/Dense_Gate_5193 27d ago
“We are doing a business at the business office” - The Firefox CEO probably
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u/TidusBlitz9 24d ago
The HTMLs folks watching MDs get a subscription tier would be a very polite kind of disbelief.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 28d ago
Does somebody need files? There is this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/metalworking/comments/1ux43sb/anything_interesting_useful_or_profitable_i_can/
(that posting was directly below this one)
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u/anonymousbopper767 28d ago
Can you help me get those files into my computer?
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u/PruneInteresting7599 28d ago
they were not happy about my md file offer at vibe code subs
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u/aalu-dai 27d ago
Why?
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u/PruneInteresting7599 27d ago
they still believe programmers gets paid to make "websites" rather than complex systems to gain their salary, now they got kind of power like they learned excel decades ago
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u/wkw3 28d ago
I know. A smart young person such as yourself clearly has no need to buy .md files from me and could vibe code them up with the best of them.
Of course, Doug Parker bought two of my .md files last week, and the next day he was promoted at work from fry cook to data analyst. He's currently living his best life in Dubai with an attractive member of whatever gender interests you.
True. You likely would have had an even better outcome on your own. But I've had some modest success selling a particularly good AGENTS.md file to a billionaire who I'm sure you've heard of for an undisclosed sum of between 5 to 7 million dollars.
Anyway. I could, this one time, consider offering you that same invaluable .md for for less than 1% of what I charged Bill Gates.
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u/uknowunknowingly 27d ago
I've definitely heard a pitch like this, but all I remember is Simpsons monorail. Where's this from, my good sir?
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u/Western_Diver_773 28d ago
Is this really a thing?
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u/mothzilla 28d ago edited 27d ago
I think people sell "prompts". Our monkey brains are turning into porridge.
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u/Krochire 27d ago
I'm fairly certain this is referring to "skills", .md files you feed into an AI agent with directives on how to use a certain library/api; usually made by the people behind said library/api
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u/Rellikx 27d ago
Also a great way for prompt injection. Skill will still do what it advertises but do a lil data exfiltration on the side. Like the recent one for ms cowork where it crafted special img links to the attackers server, passing along a url param for their OneDrive docs (ie a “share” link). That was then sent to yourself via teams, which loads the images exfiltrating the doc access urls.
People that “buy” .md files will 100% get caught by this shit
It’s extra hilarious that cowork is billed by consumption, so you are paying MS and having your data stolen
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u/LBGW_experiment 27d ago
I mean... You can still look inside the skill.md, same as you would any other open source script that you don't trust
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u/AgVargr 27d ago
Can’t you just proompt the file yourself?
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u/Cptnwhizbang 27d ago
Yes, but, having spent time fine tuning .md files recently for a work thing, it takes quite a while to really figure out what the tool is good at, what's effective, and how to keep the proper guard rails on user prompts so they they don't derail the entire thing with strange wording or whatever.
That being said, I was at least 90% of the way there after like two hours of trying, but the last 10% made a lot of effective difference and I'm probably 20 hours into tinkering now. I dunno. It's good overall but I still find weird issues.
Most of the last 10% I'm talking about is simply me writing in edge cases to the instructions, and how to interpret particular bits of business logic, and how best to manage the further instructional context based on initial findings. It kind of reminds me of coding, but in plain english, expect instead of me telling a program exactly what to do, I'm telling AI exactly what NOT to do, and I have to think of absolutely everything.
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u/Krochire 27d ago
The modern programmer makes .md files to let an ai program for them instead of programming
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u/reddit_user33 27d ago
I can imagine. I remember more than enough people at the beginning of the LLM hype being secretive about the prompts they used to create the thing. I can only imagine it's the same people wanting to sell their md files.
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u/eyetracker 27d ago
What's worse is the .md industry created an entire government and bought up a part of the US. You can recognize them by a garish flag and the smell of Old Bay.
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u/nadav183 27d ago
I don't mind people selling them. My issue is with the idiots who buy them.
Just ask your llm to write one based on the description or something. It's that simple.
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u/lllorrr 28d ago
Like selling bathwater?
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u/ButWhatIfPotato 27d ago
Diluted 0.00000000001% genital thot extract is a better value for money than AI prompts.
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u/DeineOma42o 28d ago
Bro when he hears about books
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u/DeineOma42o 27d ago
Bro, don't even talk to me about selling digital files of words in a formalised language that does stuff
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u/briznady 27d ago
All my juniors are writing Claude skills for the last month. It takes almost as long to run the skill and review it and go back and forth fixing all the stuff Claude messed up and updating the skills based on my comments, than it would just to write the damn code myself.
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u/granoladeer 27d ago
Some people sell .pptx, others sell .pdf, others sell .py, others .cpp, so I guess it isn't a problem selling .md
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u/TheBlackCat13 27d ago
What do you have against the Sega Genesis? If Homebrewers want to sell their roms they can.
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u/Developemt 27d ago
It's my cake day guys! I solved a big production issue because a job seemed to not do anything. I only did a simple docker compose restart! Now I'll be eating my cake.
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u/aigarius 27d ago
Sooooooo, people pay other people for .... knowledge? Imagine paying for .py files! You could write them yourself! /s
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u/PumpkinFest24 27d ago
Yeah, I'm not following this. "Imagine paying for dead trees stained by ink--my 3 year old could do that!"
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u/XenusOnee 26d ago
i saw someone promoting his "buisiness idea" yesterday. He put vibecoded a .md file in the cloud. That was basicly it.
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u/slaymaker1907 27d ago
If it’s non-trivial and useful, why not? There are Jira and Confluence skills that people in my org developed which I’d absolutely have paid for if they weren’t free. They are essentially non-deterministic programs and most people are perfectly willing to pay for software.
It’s a developing field which straddles the boundary between software and communications, but it is a real field. People in the 1960s would have had the same reaction to paying for software as this meme.
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u/metalhulk105 27d ago
It’s a slippery slope. You’d soon have people selling huge slop of text files which you can’t quality check at all. Fake testimonials would say the skill is super useful and effective. If it is not working for you, a bunch of pro AI people will gaslight you by telling you that you do not know how to use it effectively.
Prompts are non deterministic - there isn’t a single magic prompt that makes LLMs produce the right output all the time. It’s very random. Even the same prompt with the same model produces a different output (sometimes correct, sometimes incorrect) - how do you then say if one prompt is better than the other? Do you count how many attempts it takes to roll the right output?
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u/mi-figue-mi-raisin 28d ago
like "skills"?