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AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses (www.techrepublic.com)

submitted 3 months ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Me and my team take our site down the old fashioned way. Code copied from some rando on the internet.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the time that I took down the corporate website by translating the entire website into German. I'd been asked to do this but I hadn't realized that the auto translation Plug-In actually rewrote code into German, I thought it was just going to alter the HTML with JavaScript at runtime, but nope. It actually edited the files.

It also translated the password into German which was fun because it was just random characters so I have no idea what it translated into.

[–] NecroParagon@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

That's fucking hilarious

[–] curry@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Same happened with people using the Cloud To Butt extension which replaced every 'cloud' with 'butt' even for codes. Hilarity ensued.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I do have that extension installed. Never been bit so far. I don't copy and paste anymore than a couple of lines at a time.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

It's pretty much the same as AIs do - copy and past random code from Stackoverflow - but they do it automatically.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good old curl|sh

[–] send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 months ago

Can we take a moment to ask ourselves - how the hell did piping to shell become ok? We have all kinds of method's for deploying stuff - from the age old tarball to the new shinny flat pack. But somehow we also became ok with

Curl foo | sh

Oftentimes as root.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Copy pasting random snippets from search results and chatgpt until something works is how I do my job.

[–] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

“until something works" At least you're doing a better job than some people.

Some leave it at will ai told me so. And they don't know better and put that into prod!