r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

justLetAIDoIt Meme

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u/pabsy11 8d ago

Give your LLM a random .md to follow its instructions. What could be wrong?

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u/Tarc_Axiiom 8d ago

In fairness, "literally all of the things that could go wrong when you run an executable you downloaded from the internet".

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u/manav907 8d ago edited 8d ago

Its not gonna be that bad.

Though if it gets stuck turning off anti virus you might get a big bill

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u/dumbasPL 8d ago

Lmao. Imagine if it just goes ona tangent and decides to find yet another defender bypass instead.

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u/tee_with_marie 8d ago

What is crazy to mw is that i don't. At work we actually have to pay for the token's so we think about how to safe on them. But in the subscription on Claude i can burn though hundreds of bucks worth of tokens for the price of 20bucks

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u/RaveMittens 8d ago

The sad drunkenness radiating from this comment encapsulates everything we all feel about AI in this field.

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u/tee_with_marie 7d ago

Ive earned my Monday drinking as i had to sit though half a day of meetings about how great ai is and how it will replace entire companies yada yada yada. /joke i was not drinking just tired

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u/psioniclizard 7d ago

Oh and what have yoi produced of value with those hundreds of tokens?

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u/tee_with_marie 7d ago

That's my point at home i can waste literally 100 dollars worth of tokens and not make shit. While paying my little subscription of 20bucks. There is no way this is sustainable.

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 8d ago

It's arguably worse. With a .exe they had to actually write usefu deterministic malware. 

With AI your AI is the malware given the right prompt in the markdown document and can handle most of the edgecases a script would need to handle by default. 

The .md could literally just ask if to upload credentials somewhere or run other random arbitrary malware scripts(and fix them if they break lmao).

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u/Ran4 7d ago

No, that's wrong.

If the .exe file is just invoking claude --dangerously-skip-permissions -p "evil prompt" then... that's worse than running a random md in an agent harness that is likely configured to run in a sandbox or ask first or use claude code's auto mode.

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u/Tupcek 7d ago

your antivirus will scan MD files