the consensus seems to be that adding instructions to code that sabotage other people’s work goes too far
Luckily, the LLM coding isnt people's work
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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It's the stolen work of other people.
the consensus seems to be that adding instructions to code that sabotage other people’s work goes too far
I mean, my thought would be "Don't fucking run code that you don't understand".
I love everything about this, other than the people butthurt that their free software doesn't like AI. I'll give the smallest amount of criticism that it was obfuscated initially, because that's just malware even if I think it's justified. By clearly stating what it does, then the onus is on the user to audit the code and modify as needed. I would love to see more of this type of action to become standard practice, but just deleting the test suite isn't quite painful enough for what I'd like to see.
lol at the pearl clutching from AI heads.
The OG vibe coders.
Hilarious. More of this please.
Not all heroes wear capes. Based af.
mumble mumble "his code" mumble mumble "provided as is" mumble mumble.
I’d say this is only fair game if you have a no-ai policy on the readme. Otherwise you’re just being a dick.
Heel yaw 👊