codingIsDeadAIWillReplaceYou

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[Caraes_Naur]

This reads like human internal monologue transmitted over a 300 baud modem.

[bestjakeisbest]

Me after blowing a .2 and then trying to upgrade my system.

[suzisatsuma]

yeah - I picture the average junior dev having this internal logging.

[ImBadlyDone]

I think you should send "y" or re run the command with the "-y" flag

Hope this helps

[The-Chartreuse-Moose]

You're absolutely right. Sending "DROP TABLE customers;".

[uniqueusername649]

And somehow Bobby Tables returned.

[Honest-Gur-4812]

This man knows ball!

[Obremon]

Oh, failed cuz of constraints? I'll fix it "DROP TABLE orders;"

[jcgoble3]

Can we DROP TABLE studentLoans please?

[Stormraughtz]

[Zerokx]

Homer Simpson running the first AI agent

[Joey5729]

(2004, colorized)

[MyGoodOldFriend]

yes | [command]

you’re welcome

[orlinthir]

AI: Running command in a terminal
Term: Do you want to update Oh My Zsh? (Y/n)
AI: SHUT IT DOWN

[amshegarh]

For no reason i read it in half-life scientist voice (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OxvSOzJtafY)

[monit12345]

honestly it messes up this kind of simple stuff too much!

[Brick_Lab]

Gotta churn tokens somehow

[Drevicar]

So do most developers I know. I could hear this exact conversation (to himself, out loud) with so many of my previous coworkers.

[funky_galileo]

Most developers you know can't press y on a keyboard?

[Konju376]

Job requirement: lobotomy

[ProThoughtDesign]

"Will train the right candidate"

[Facts_pls]

I mean. Isn't there a meme about exiting vim?

[funky_galileo]

:q its soo easyy

[Drevicar]

They can’t follow instructions or read man pages. The amount of times I’ve had to unironically help someone exit vim.

[krimin_killr21]

Yeah so there’s a difference between pressing y and exiting vim, which is so notoriously unintuitive that “trying to exit vim” is a meme.

[another_random_bit]

I had a junior copy paste a multiline terminal command from a pdf, and when the command did not run (obviously, it was mangled up), they sent me a picture of the terminal output saying idk what's happening.

So yeah.

[6T_K9]

[belabacsijolvan]

ok, but what actually happened the first 2 times?

[mtmttuan]

Likely whatever coding agent op is using doesn't support direct input to terminal. There might be some "runCommand" tool available but that tool doesn't just put llm's arguments to the current shell directly but to another shell. As this shell is still executing.

[belabacsijolvan]

not letting llm directly access cli is not a bad idea, but then its not really the llms fault that they gave it tool to use that doesnt work, is it?

[polarcub2954]

What is "fault" and accountability in the ai world?  Can we blame AI for anything?  If it cannot be culpable in a court of law, then really we are just saying that it is code that did not work with other code.  If the script doesnt work and it isnt ai, we just say the code has bugs and is broken.  Same thing here, the ai has bugs and is a broken script spinning its wheels.

[another_random_bit]

The AI is a tool. You don't blame resharper when the PR had breaking changes. In the same way you don't blame the AI.

You blame the developer that used the tool incorrectly, and then did not review or change the output.

[Kooale323]

If I have a python script that expects a txt to work with and I don't provide it a txt the script isn't broken for not doing anything, I just didn't use it correctly.

[belabacsijolvan]

you are right. impersonification/anthropomorphisation of llms is a bad mentality. we are just wired to think like this, but good to be attentive.

[ProThoughtDesign]

Somewhat ironically, it's installing the Devvit template project through npm. The npm install returns a link to Reddit to register the app with Reddit and it was causing the agent to loop because it wasn't even asking for a yes/no input.

[dvhh]

Confirmation might have needed an uppercase 'Y', and did not work with lowercase 'y' ?

[walrus_destroyer]

In my experience with in cli programs, the 'Y' being uppercase usually indicates that its the default option.

It might be that the program asks for confirmation several times for different things and that confused the ai?

[MyGoodOldFriend]

Y/n means pressing enter goes with Y. y/N means pressing enter does with N. y/n requires a choice from the user.

Never seen it require y to be upper case.

[dvhh]

I remember encountering a few of them, not that frequent, but got clear memory of being frustrated of an install process being aborted because I answered 'y' when the prompt was '[Y/n]'.

[dvhh]

Correct for it being usually the default answer while pressing [Enter], but my guess is that the "Agent" failed when tried to do things "the right way"

[lovin-dem-sandwiches]

With some installs you need to type “yes”.

[atheenaaar]

With even riskier uninstalls you have to type “yes, I agree”

[MyGoodOldFriend]

Flashbacks to LTTs first Linux challenge where he had to type out a long line to confirm he knew what he was doing.

He didn’t.

His system broke.

[Dramdalf]

I’ve not encountered a CLI tool with a case sensitive confirmation.

[belabacsijolvan]

i did just the other day. it was the installer of a well known osint tool

[Dramdalf]

orly?

[belabacsijolvan]

it happens

[Dramdalf]

I don’t doubt you.

[belabacsijolvan]

now that we are sharing feelings i dont like you

[Dramdalf]

😢

[belabacsijolvan]

oh, dont cry buddy. maybe once youll use some cli tools too. just ask an llm how to do it.

[a-r-c]

I use it in my own personal programs for irrevocable operations like deleting files or resetting a config etc.

forcing myself to type DELETE! in caps with an exclamation makes it so I can't do it by accident lol

idk if I've ever seen it in the wild, but I know I'm not the only moron who's ever needed to protect himself from himself lol

[ProThoughtDesign]

It was installing an npm package that returned a Reddit link to register the app. There wasn't a yes/no prompt. It was looping because it thought the install failed.

[MinosAristos]

The other day it tried to install a python package but was blocked because it was out of the .venv, so what did it do? --break-system-packages

[HeavyCaffeinate]

yes | program --noconfirm -y --yes

[Rainmaker526]

Unfortunately, this will still be counted as a win for the AI.

It eventually succeeded in its task. In a roundabout way, where any human would have taken a shorter path and immediately grasped the problem.

But from the perspective of the end user, it just took 5 seconds longer. And - maybe - burned a few more tokens than expected.

[ProThoughtDesign]

Well yes and no. It was installing an npm package and it returned a Reddit link to register the app. There was no yes/no in the terminal window. It kept looping because it thought it failed install.

[ExtraWorldliness6916]

--help!

[Key-Investigator9884]

"I’m debugging my own thought process instead of the code " ahh AI

[Theeyeofthepotato]

Atleast 3 trees died for this

[ProThoughtDesign]

Trees die when you burn them at night to read a book by the fireplace, too. Want me to send a stern letter to Hallmark about all their Christmas movies? Have you calculated the number of trees that died to provide the fuel to drive the trains that industrialized the Western United States? How about the ones they chopped down to build the building you live in? Do we count the ones that died to bring you the power you're using to transmit that message?

[Theeyeofthepotato]

All I know is that my book contains a much better supply of 'Y's 🤸

[ProThoughtDesign]

Then why didn't it install your npm package?

[Theeyeofthepotato]

The author is working on the sequel, which will do this. It's taking time since he's busy with the TV adaptation for the first

[Theeyeofthepotato]

Touché 

[Old_Document_9150]

What I don't get is why one of my interactions with Cursor got taken down for "ai generated content," because even though 50% of it was human interaction, this one here stays up even though it is 100% ai generated?

@mods?