JPTime for a new variation on a classic.
Kathy Reid@daedalus you need to add an 0 to that last one
Daniel Carosone@KathyReid @daedalus I think that's for "AI is involved" present continuous tense...
ShadSterling@uep @KathyReid @daedalus I think that’s the price for “if you worked on it first, and 'AI' was involved”. If you want me to use “AI” for it, that’ll need a few more zeros
@KathyReid Indeed.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@KathyReid @daedalus You're generous.
Me: "IF AI WAS INVOLVED: $∞/hr"
(i.e. go away and take your AI slop someplace else.)
The cat who walks thru walls@stuartl Unfortunately it isn't always immediately obvious that AI was involved; sometimes you do drop everything and spend time looking at a report in a mild panic before you realize it's completely bogus. @KathyReid @daedalus
I've dealt with one project that was "vibe coded"… it was a comms driver for a copper refinery written in Python.
I helped get it into some vaguely working order (most of that was wrapping calls to a C library in a module using `subprocess`… because the original authors played fast and loose using threading using a non-threadsafe C library) but made it clear its future maintenance would be their problem, not mine.
I've walked away from that project now, and will walk away from future ones of that nature from now on.
Code written by an uneducated programming beginner is bad enough, but when LLMs get involved, it's an unholy mess of epic proportions.