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Get ready for a bunch of unskilled people making the shittiest apps imaginable.

And I wonder how easy it will be to get Claude to create malware with just a few prompts...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What happens if someone (OpenAI) makes an LLM inject spyware into the code? Who would be able to read the code and figure that out if you have no coders?

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[–] [email protected] 204 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Should be a nice salary boost for developers in a year or two when all these companies desperately need to rehire to fix whatever AI slop mess they have created.

And I hope every developer demands 2x their current salary if they are tasked with re-engineering that crap.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd go further and demand that the team I'm hired for re-write the app completely and not just re-engineer it from the AI slop codebase.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder how well & fast that is going to age for the maintenance of those “app”

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