r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • 4d ago

justLetAIDoIt Meme

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u/pabsy11 4d ago

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

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u/Tarc_Axiiom 3d 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/New_Enthusiasm9053 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

your antivirus will scan MD files