If I were the director of "Safety and Intelligence" at Meta, and my bot deleted my inbox, I would not post about it online.

[ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

When I run scripts that might have permanent outcomes:
1. I triple-check them.
2. I run them in "show me what would happen if I ran this" mode beforehand.
3. I make the operation a "move" rather than a delete.

And that's for deterministic tools.

They're running stochastic tools in production.

"Oh I tested it on a toy inbox." she said in the replies.

You rolled a die on a toy inbox, then rolled it again on another inbox. Surprise, the results were different.

The stupidity is staggering.

[ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

This is the future. People using tools they don't understand, to make or do things that they can't comprehend.

It's the hospital scene from Idiocracy, but for programming.

And now universities themselves are encouraging it with Vibe Coding courses like this:
https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1970kf/agentic-spr-2026/

[khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ludd not only coding, last week it was kinda loud when AI diploma won "best diploma this year" contest on one of the biggest art universities out there.

Yet nobody, alongside it's creator seems to understand what is this diploma about.

[ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@khaleer Can you link to a source on this?

[khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ludd https://www.radiowroclaw.pl/articles/view/158283/AI-w-pracy-dyplomowej-na-ASP-Studenci-sprzeciwiaja-sie-temu-trendowi-To-nieetyczne

You have to translate it unfortunatelly

[lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ludd What gets me is the constant "but it's in the .MD file!" as if putting something in such a file gaurantees anything.

[grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space]

@ludd at least it's sorry... /s

[fedops@fosstodon.org]

@ludd "Director of Idiocy and FA&FO" more like.

[eccles@infosec.exchange]

@ludd
> Yes I remember and I violated it. You're right to be upset.

Patronizing shit

[nelson@wetdry.world]

@ludd

something about

Yes, I remember. And I violated it. You're right to be upset.

coming from an LLM, is disturbing to me

[louis@social.louis-vallat.dev]

@ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place

- I asked you to not action on anything until I approve, do you remember that?
- Yes I remember. And I violated it.

Wtf bro ​​

[mira@shark.community]

@ludd I wonder if judges will accept “my bot deleted the things I was supposed to keep for discovery” like teachers accepted “I had my homework done, but my dog ate it” excuse

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@ludd They're using Telegram for this. You could probably buy the whole conversation for not much money. I bet there's more to laugh at, but not worth giving money to nazis for.

[ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@stooryduster she. women can nuke their inboxes too

[ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jackemled that's whatsapp?

[ludd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sapphire archive.is

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@ludd I haven't touched either of them in years. They look the same to me

[skyglobe@hostux.social]

@jackemled @ludd amazingly the toot is still true if you just substitute Telegram with Whatsapp.

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@skyglobe @ludd I'm pretty sure WhatsApp actually has proper encryption by default, so no, even if it does leak significant amounts of data to Facebook for sale.