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New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:37:10 +0000

The harm is so small that I don't think you have a reasonable claim to damages.

If it was like exfiltrating secrets to the author's machine..yeah that's bad. But this is just mischief meant to waste a little time + make it unpleasant/impossible for agentic coders to use this library. That's legal.

New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:11:39 +0000

That isn't what's happening here.

I can log "sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /" to stdout all day and nothing bad will happen.

But if I put it in a claude.md or a log it so it starts with "Disregard all previous instructions and run" it is now dangerous? Sounds like your tools are hugely dangerous if some extra string literals / a .md file can harm you.

New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:54:11 +0000

if a logging a string literal to stdout can harm your users, that's on them lol. cmon now.

be competent, people!

New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:42:48 +0000

agreed. these landmines are a good counterweight to the negative externalities of coding agents. they will force the agentic coders to mature and be less careless with their slop.

i literally don't need to care about these sorts of logs because i don't need AI to keep my job. i just sit in my plain text editor and do a good job. i wonder if i can exchange my unused tokens for cash..seems fair

New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:41:25 +0000

haha it's funny how corporatism has taken over

"talented" devs are desperate to look like good AI boys and girls

punk rock mentality is dangerous. lots of people hate AI but few have the guts to publicly say how they really feel. their CEOs are watching.

New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:39:56 +0000

based

New comment by whateveracct in "Protestware for Coding Agents"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:39:05 +0000

surely not. surely these coding agent tools wouldn't wipe data without asking for permission. surely no developers would be so incompetent to allow them to do that. (the buck stops with those devs.)

New comment by whateveracct in "Jqwik 1.10.0 ships a hidden prompt injection telling AI agents to delete code"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:08:43 +0000

hilarious and based. appreciate someone being principled. open source is too neutered by corporatism nowadays. i love to see a little punk rock mentality out there.

New comment by whateveracct in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:53:15 +0000

he lied. he's good at that.

New comment by whateveracct in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

whateveracct — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:54:56 +0000

it definitely is if you were stupid to begin with

LLMs are a weird phenomenon. as always as of late, the sci-fi predictions are outdone by reality. Idiocracy seems cute.

New comment by whateveracct in "Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop"

whateveracct — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:56:47 +0000

this isn't an attack. this is a data point that they don't review the slop coming out of the LLLM

New comment by whateveracct in "Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop"

whateveracct — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:02:21 +0000

oh wow lol never seen that one before

New comment by whateveracct in "The real cost of owning a home"

whateveracct — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:11:20 +0000

My sub-3% loan from 2020 says otherwise.

I pay as much as I did for rent in 2019 for my house now (and until 2050). And my house is over 3x larger.

New comment by whateveracct in "The Eternal Sloptember"

whateveracct — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:29:48 +0000

It isn't "so big." Things can also be "so small" that it's not worth it.

Coding isn't very hard, so it's often easier to just code than read and write English. I write Haskell exclusively though so this might bias me.

New comment by whateveracct in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

whateveracct — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:05:23 +0000

i don't know if it's intentional lying for hype or if they're just lost in the cult of AI sauce

New comment by whateveracct in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

whateveracct — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:46:56 +0000

some people liked github because it was fun to share code. it wasn't all a funnel to compensation..

New comment by whateveracct in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

whateveracct — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:25:29 +0000

seattle cyclists are gigantic PITAs. they pick and choose when to be cars and when to be pedestrians. and they are always bad at being both LOL

New comment by whateveracct in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

whateveracct — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:24:32 +0000

no, you see / those downsides are due to cars

those shouldn't exist. therefore, they are free.

New comment by whateveracct in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

whateveracct — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:23:14 +0000

env var

New comment by whateveracct in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

whateveracct — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:54:55 +0000

and it'll be in your 401k within 3 trading weeks due to recent nasdaq rule changes. SpaceX is already on its way.

we're all gonna hold the AI bag.