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slopinthebag commented on Shall I implement it? No   gist.github.com/bretonium... · Posted by u/breton
skybrian · 2 hours ago
Don't just say "no." Tell it what to do instead. It's a busy beaver; it needs something to do.
slopinthebag · an hour ago
It's a machine, it doesn't need anything.
slopinthebag commented on Shall I implement it? No   gist.github.com/bretonium... · Posted by u/breton
kfarr · 2 hours ago
What else is an LLM supposed to do with this prompt? If you don’t want something done, why are you calling it? It’d be like calling an intern and saying you don’t want anything. Then why’d you call? The harness should allow you to deny changes, but the LLM has clearly been tuned for taking action for a request.
slopinthebag · an hour ago
Ask if there is something else it could do? Ask if it should make changes to the plan? Reiterate that it's here to help with anything else? Tf you mean "what else is it suppose to do", it's supposed to do the opposite of what it did.
slopinthebag commented on Returning to Rails in 2026   markround.com/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/stanislavb
apsurd · 16 hours ago
it's like you're saying SQL injection happens if you're running sql on the client so if it's on the server you're fine.

that's not how it works. and i'm fairly sure most all apps deal with databases, unless they're explicitly static pages.

edit: sql injection is about hacking the parameters used in a query. they almost always in some way come from external sources, user input. so they have to be sanitized. it sounds straightforward but bounties are paid all the time on hackerone with documented cases of injection. people are very clever.

i've had to patch some verified cases where the hacker used the name field to pass code in and alter links in emails to make it look like they came from our (household name) company.

slopinthebag · 6 hours ago
I don't get your point, I'm not saying sanitising user input isn't important, I'm saying these JS frameworks are only concerned with server rendering and routing. They don't provide any tooling for databases like Rails or Laravel do.
slopinthebag commented on Malus – Clean Room as a Service   malus.sh... · Posted by u/microflash
slopinthebag · 6 hours ago
The irony of course is that this service already exists. It's called Claude Code (or Codex, etc...) and it costs $200 / month.
slopinthebag commented on Malus – Clean Room as a Service   malus.sh... · Posted by u/microflash
yomismoaqui · 8 hours ago
I bet someone has already made this service for real.
slopinthebag · 6 hours ago
It exists! It's called Claude Code.
slopinthebag commented on Malus – Clean Room as a Service   malus.sh... · Posted by u/microflash
observationist · 9 hours ago
Not sure their attempted point lands the way they think it will. I view this as an unmitigated good. Open source every damn thing. Open the floodgates. Break the system.

I'd cheer for a company like this.

It seems to dance just on the other side of what's legal, though.

slopinthebag · 6 hours ago
Open source is good, washing open source licences is very bad.

I publish under AGPL and if someone ever took my project and washed it to MIT I would probably just take all my code offline forever. Fuck that.

slopinthebag commented on The Cost of Indirection in Rust   blog.sebastiansastre.co/p... · Posted by u/sebastianconcpt
slopinthebag · 7 hours ago
Cool article but I got turned off by the obvious AI-isms which, because of my limited experience with Rust, has me wondering how true any of the article actually is.
slopinthebag commented on Returning to Rails in 2026   markround.com/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/stanislavb
shafyy · 16 hours ago
The main line on the Rails website now reads:

> Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails scales from PROMPT to IPO. Token-efficient code that's easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review

And I fucking hate it. If I read this the first time I would think this is some kind of tool to optimize your LLM agents.

I have been using Rails for over a decade now and always liked the focus on writing beautiful and simple code. On making it easy to reason about with colleagues. Now it seems like DHH is throwing all what made Rails special overboard.

If we are all supposed to be talking to agents now, what's the difference if my agent uses fucking Next, Nuxt, Rails or Django?

slopinthebag · 16 hours ago
Oh boy. I can't even imagine what sort of hell an AI could unleash on a language as dynamic and magical as Ruby...
slopinthebag commented on Returning to Rails in 2026   markround.com/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/stanislavb
neya · 16 hours ago
One thing that is not stressed enough, is Rails enforces good code patterns early on. If you follow the docs, you will know where model code should be, helpers should be, controllers should be. After all, it is an MVC framework.

However, modern day JS frameworks don't care about this at all. Most of them love flaunting about their raw performance numbers. Security? Fuck that. Not even basic form CSRF protection. A lot of times, there is not even SQL injection prevention in them.

Compound this with someone who just vibe codes their app on top of these frameworks - that's how you end up getting hacked. Every week there is an incident. That's why good frameworks like Rails are very important. People who actually care about writing secure, good quality software are on the decline, but thank God rails still exists as an option in 2026 despite the fact.

slopinthebag · 16 hours ago
Javascript frameworks just do SSR + Express-style api routes. They don't handle SQL injection prevention because they don't deal with databases at all. CSRF prevention is less important in todays world tho.
slopinthebag commented on Preliminary data from a longitudinal AI impact study   newsletter.getdx.com/p/ai... · Posted by u/donutshop
tcskeptic · 19 hours ago
The idea that any results of AI productivity enhancements that include data from 2024 are valid is bananas.

I’m not even a programmer — but the step change since late fall 2025 is incredible.

I have a young relative that manages in house product for a financial services company. Programming team of 150 ish. That will be 15 ish by June and they are iterating much more quickly now.

So much cope in this thread. AI is in fact the grim reaper for the median coder. The emerging middle class in India tech hubs is about to get vaporized

slopinthebag · 19 hours ago
> AI is in fact the grim reaper for the median coder.

Is it? You don't think the median coder can use these AI tools? In my experience they're incredibly simple to use.

u/slopinthebag

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