Saagar Jha

People: Ugh, I hate AI. Every time it hits a minor issue it crashes out and I catch it writing its own “safe web request” function

Also people: Yeah so malloc on this system did something I don’t understand so I’m just going to vendor jemalloc to be sure
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Siguza

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar you mean "malloc made my UaF-ridden code fail verbosely so I switched to a more lenient allocator"?

Saagar Jha

(replying to Siguza)
@siguza No usually it’s a performance thing

Matt Massicotte

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar people 1: yes this happens no question

People 2: I am willing to believe this has happened at least once, I guess

Saagar Jha

(replying to Matt Massicotte)
@mattiem I’m approaching like half a dozen instances of this happening

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
@mattiem I think in some form this probably means the system allocator does a bad job of explaining what it’s doing and why but still, maybe look at your own codebase before assuming the system is your problem?

Oliver Hunt

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar I’ve added a bunch of exceedingly blunt and dumb hooks - things like “don’t allow any action containing the word ‘push’”

Also it keeps trying to make commits (and sign them).

Such an absolutely wretched ~snake oil- technology to have to work with.

Saagar Jha

(replying to Oliver Hunt)
@ohunt I mount .git read-only

Oliver Hunt

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar I just like how they all interpret "do not do this" as a problem to work around. But remember: hyper smart AI is the future. It's incredibly good at doing all sorts of things!*

* As long as those things have already been implemented in multiple open source projects in their training set. Probably a coincidence.

Saagar Jha

(replying to Oliver Hunt)
@ohunt Unfortunately having any sort of common sense seems to be beyond the scope of models today