Screenshot from May 16 2025 Nostr user Alex Gleason showing the AI added code to his app publishing his crypto wallets private key, which grants full access to the money in the wallet, via what looks like the JSON metadata of a Nostr message. It's followed by comments thanking him for the cryoto money and sarcastically asking him if he has tried learning programming.
I’m getting annoyed with how this community is becoming an echo chamber.
Half of these posts are just people not using a tool wisely.
If this com had existed in the early nineties or 2000, you could have easily created similar content based on first time computer users or first time internetters.
“Computer genius found a way to clean up harddrive space by deleting all hidden files, now computers won’t start”
It’s this constant echo chamber creation that makes stuff like 45 becoming 47 possible.
Come on, the AI wrote code that published his wallet key and then he straight up tweeted it in a screenshot, it's objectively funny/harrowing.
Also the thing with AI tooling isn't so much that it isn't used wisely as it is that you might get several constructive and helpful outputs followed by a very convincingly correct looking one that is in fact utterly catastrophic.
Alex Gleason is not a first time computer user
He's probably written more code than most people on this sub, I sincerely doubt he'd be stupid enough to use his personal wallet for something like this, and not to clear out the wallet himself before drawing attention to it.
This is likely just an attempt to poke fun at vibe coders.
I don't think it's that either. Lots of people with programming experience have turned to vibe coding, thinking that since they have the knowledge they won't end up like other, less experienced users. Not everyone who programs enjoys the act of programming.
I'm inclined to agree. I mean, this case is a bit different, in that it's a person that supposedly could have done this properly taking a bad shortcut. But still, don't take shortcuts on money stuff. That's kind of on you (and what you get for cryptobroing anyway).
That's not to say it isn't impressive how helpful machine generation can be for trivial tasks where there's no security risk or a huge stack of dependencies. It's not even a bad way to learn to do it yourself if you are at that point where you can sort of know what you need to do but struggle to implement it.
It's weird to be in the agnostic region of this stuff because there's a bunch of garbage applications being incorrectly used or implemented I'd happily discuss, but I'm not ready to make cultish hatred for machine generated content a significant part of my personality.
But hey, Google has managed to make its spellchecker unlearn the difference between "its" and "it's", I suspect by plugging it into a language model. I'm not here to say it's all good.
Reminds me of 4chan figuring out how to mess with how Google was transcribing books when Google was effectively crowdsourcing transcription through recaptcha at the same time m00t had to add it to the site to combat spam bots.
Recaptcha would show two words, and with some practice it was pretty easy to tell which one was the one it already knew and which one was the "new" word it was looking for human help to transcribe. They found that it would accept any input for the "new" word. So 4chan users started using the n-slur, because of course they would, and they actually had enough people doing it to effect some books Google was transcribing.