I think that any software system isn't safe by definition

Yea, indeed I think we have to proactively keep getting away from doomscrolling/other things which hijack our attention and I don't think it's easy for anyone. It's also not bad if you do it in small doses.

> Doomscrolling will make you stay longer and click on a few more ads. I've personally never bought something out of a Google ad. Tbh how much of their effort they're putting into ads, I don't see much interesting ads. If they would try to sell me some tech/hacky stuff, hell yeah. But random ads, nah thanks.

> Since people can connect various services to Codex and ChatGPT, the scope of what we could theoretically access was huge, including GitHub, Slack and emails.

That's why I'm always sceptical about using the AI for such things! Less surface idea and isolation is always good for the security.

I recommend using spotify mcp server (if you use spotify), it freed me from the loop of listening to the same stuff again and again :P

that's interesting and helpful.. I have like 2k+ liked songs and Spotify always plays the same ones... Will try it out, thanks

I agree that it's a waste of time, but I started to realize that doing it

a) puts be ahead of those people who don't, yes b) but also diminishes my technical skills if I don't actively try to engage about what I'm "vibecoding" and proactively trying to understand it.

for your point a: writing code by hand puts you ahead of the people who don't write code by hand, eg, the people using LLMs to generate code? that doesn't make much sense assuming both of those personas are senior SWEs.

Yes, it's more like the people who agressively vibe-code and had lost interest in learning by doing, and instead are doing by vibecoding. I feel like they are starting to lose their technical ability.

The big AI tech companies are still interviewing people on manual coding tasks and deep understand, which when you're vibe coding a lot, you tend to diverge from those skills, because it's just easier to use AI to "help" you a lot.

You've hit on the problem precisely.

People are vibecoding to do without learning, and that's their problem, but doesn't have to be ours.

They'd still be mindlessly copying and pasting from Stack Overflow without learning if they didn't have AI.

If you have an aversion to reading code and learning from it, human or AI generated, you shouldn't be in this industry.

If you're not using AI to teach yourself new things, you're not holding it right.

I agree and I think that this will bring such abundance of information/slop to deal with / to injest. A lot of security concerns too.

It's like the classic hot topic of having personal AI agents booking and ordering pizzas for you that are now all over social media. So pain to deal with when you're a human being on the other end receiving calls from an LLM.

Given the fact that LLMs are very unstable and don't follow the rules and often diverge from the initial instruction list[1], I can't even imagine the responsibility of running such system interacting with humans / other systems online.

[1] https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-...

Last month I've finished the reverse-engineering of the original WON-era Half-Life launcher from 90s (https://github.com/oxiKKK/re-goldsrc-won-launcher-1792).

This was an interesting thought experiment for me, because I always loved reverse-engineering old games (Half-Life in particular) and restoring the original looks and properties of the code.

In this project I tried to use LLMs extensively to reverse the code for the first time to bring it back to its original potential look. Frankly, it worked and the code is now available to the public.