I only use OpenAI models, and Sol is the only one to refuse me yet, and ofc it was completely bogus and I was unable to convince I was just working a regular bug for a well-known product for a well-known company using my official github account.
You generally don't even have to convince it, or at least I don't. I just paste the error into the prompt window, and say "you got blocked, try again", and it'll just say, "Oh, that's because ...", then do it.
Automated scripts that target everything they can. Isn’t that one of the core lessons to take away from the last year? As hacking becomes commoditized and the cost per attack shrinks, it becomes more profitable to cast a wide net, and everyone will become a target.
And here I am, feeling a bit guilty for using between 2 and 5M tokens... since 1 August!
Employer just sent an email that.. things are changing when it comes to token spend...
What did I do with these?
Setup record/replay for our product using qemu, several variatons thereof including experiments on target hardware. Fixed a tricky bug in qemu that I sadly can't upstream..
Experimented with rr on WSL2 and our target arch. Failed experiment.
Setup mutation testing PoC.
Optimized pipelines
etc. etc. Just contung code its soo much more than I would normally produce, but its also 95% experiments that are still not productized, and much of it never will be.
As a hobby I am playing around with mesh radios using Lora.
Let me tell you, it is _silly_ the amount of vibe-coded software in this area is popping up every week. Is the software duplicated? To an extremely large extent, yes. It is useful? Yes, but each piece of software seems to have a smaller and smaller audience, and quality is often severely lacking.
Iv'e done my own, too, for "RF debugging" as I called it to look into SNR issues related to interference. The software getting produced is likely useful _somewhere_, its just that youre not going to notice it.
Are we just moving towards personalised digital assistants for everyone, which in turn will produce software to function? Not unlikely.
Yeah, a lot of the software around MeshCore people have created seems heavily vibe coded (since got used to having press a button multiple times until it works) & the community seems to be surprisingly non-critical to "AI" technologies. Is it just about timing or something else ?
Ah, yes, I started thinking about William Gibsons work right away when thinking about people just using powerful AIs, but being hamstrung by corporations.
He writes a lot of about basically DoS:ing the legal system, or if it was patents system, with a storm of litigation using automation or AI. Also not impossible in the future.
Aaargh.
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