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New comment by BrissyCoder in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

BrissyCoder — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:31:04 +0000

I started using it too when I got sick of using VS Code to look at md. Glad I never had the need to install any plug-ins! Very poor form on their part from what I can tell.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

BrissyCoder — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:51:36 +0000

Thank you eSafety Commissioner!

New comment by BrissyCoder in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

BrissyCoder — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:18:45 +0000

> No mention of the fact that Ollama is about 1000x easier to use.

Easier than what?

I came across LM Studio (mentioned in the post) about 3 years ago before I even knew what Ollama as. It was far better even then.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

BrissyCoder — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:07:12 +0000

Yeah okay. Thanks for clarifying. I guess I thought when you said "punish" you meant something more dramatic!

New comment by BrissyCoder in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

BrissyCoder — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:22:48 +0000

Worked in and managed a few "Agile" teams. Never heard of a dev get punished for a bad estimate. Can you describe exactly what you mean?

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:36:02 +0000

Yes in good faith I will one hundred percent no-lie wire you 100AUD if you can prove beyond doubt that you had a discussion like that with a Swiss health provider. Not one that you contrive now after the fact - one that happened before this wager.

Spoiler: you didn't mate and you are full of shit.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:25:58 +0000

No I'm just straight up saying this post is fake.

Don't try to bring social justice warrior talk onto a tech forum please.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:19:07 +0000

Yeah sure, as a matter of rule, every time I visit any health provider I am always discussing with the medical receptionist: the software they use, the challenges the business as a whole faces, the tensions between insurers and third parties.

Things that absolutely 100% happen everytime I - a tech guy - experiences when I go to the doctor/phyiso-therapist etc... etc... These are discussions that are happening.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:14:19 +0000

Non-ironically: "yes please" if you want me to believe that any of this happened.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:20:19 +0000

> On my last visit i actually casually discussed their IT system with a doctor.

Oh right, cool. Did it have a public-facing web-portal that you were able to "investigate" and that "Thirty minutes in, I had full read and write access to all patient data".

The level of credulity in these comments is immense.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:16:32 +0000

It's pure bs. If you read that blog post and think "this definitely happened", let alone "wow - this is interesting" then I have a monorail to sell you.

> Technical Background

> The entire application was a single HTML file with all JavaScript, CSS, and structure written inline. The backend was a managed database service with zero access control configured, no row-level security, nothing. All "access control" logic lived in the JavaScript on the client side, meaning the data was literally one curl command away from anyone who looked.

> All audio recordings were sent directly to external AI APIs for transcription and summarization.

> There was more, but this is already enough to get the idea.

Hmmmm... interesting, now that I have the "Technical Background" I for sure know that this medical app was 100% vibe coded by a Medical Practice in the Real World and exists! (TM)

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:03:29 +0000

Yeah because every medical practice I go to, I'm always able to investigate all of their systems.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:59:04 +0000

> The timelines mentioned are weird - he spoke to them before they built it? Or after? It's not that clear, he mentions they mentioned watching a video.

Yeah although I didn't comment I found this weird as well. Chronology was vague and ill-defined. He went to a doctors office and the receptionist mentioned vibe coding their patient records system unprompted?

> A few days later, I started poking around the application.

What!? How... was there even a web-facing component to this system? Did the medical practice grant you access for some reason?

Yeah I'm back to calling bullshit. What a load of crap. Whole post probably written by an LLM.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:54:19 +0000

Okay. If it's real I apologize.

But in any case it's so lacking in detail and so brief as to make it so uninteresting that it might as well be fake.

> Somebody "vibecodes" medical app/system. The app was insecure. Personal info leaked.

Okay cool.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

BrissyCoder — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:11:26 +0000

This reads like internet fiction to me. Very vague and short.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

BrissyCoder — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:27:30 +0000

"wanky"

Austraian/New Zealander detected lol

WiseTech Global to cut 2k jobs as AI ends era of 'manually writing code'

BrissyCoder — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:44:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/wisetech-job-losses-losing-2000-over-next-two-years-coding-era/106387486

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148600

Points: 2

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New comment by BrissyCoder in "Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz"

BrissyCoder — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:33:35 +0000

> I suspect this test gives central values to many test-takers because the internal consistency of the questions has not been verified.

Do you prefer to use:

1. Capital letters

2. Lower-case letters

3. Numbers

4. The characters required for the text I am writing to be correct and legible

New comment by BrissyCoder in "Documented source code for Elite on the NES"

BrissyCoder — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:44:01 +0000

I played it on the C64 as an 8 year old. 30 years later I don't understand this code.

New comment by BrissyCoder in "Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code"

BrissyCoder — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:24:59 +0000

Starting around the mid 2010s I think, I started seeing needless use of "Design Patterns" all over the place (mostly by CS graduates). Factories, adapters, observers in places where it was just plain overkill and needless extra lines of useless code.

I started referring to it as cargo-cult programming.