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He describes himself as "Software engineer. Writing code prompts at Google".

So throwing his own, apparently poorly written, creation under the bus will get him applause and promotions by the AI lunatics.

It is a currently popular strategy among AI boosters.

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What a weird comment.

You think he cynically decided to boost his career by writing a detailed description of the exploits found in his own software.

Is there no room in your model of the world for someone to figure out something interesting using AI tools and then write about it just because they like sharing interesting information?

The irritating thing about this thread is that it's a human-authored post about vulnerabilities in a WASM interpreter, which isn't a common genre --- it's interesting on its own terms. But as usual, instead of discussing the interesting thing, we're rehashing the high-salience culture war issue instead.

It is not at all, in the slightest, weird heuristic to deploy in the Agentic Era.

It’s a heuristic after all. There is no proof one way or the other.

I can't speak to the larger trend of AI boosters, as I don't go out of my way to pay attention to them, but the practice of being vocally self-critical and openly discussing the flaws found in one's own software (whether from AI or human analysts) is a damn good idea for reasons that can best be understood by rehashing the vulnerability disclosure debate in one's own mind.

Seems to be working for a lot of people, and I won't really blame them that much. People want promotions, money and a job in general, and they will do stupid stuff to keep their jobs and increase their pay. Unfortunately, it's an incentives problem of our current mode of production.

Honestly your poor assessment is in all ways poorer than his poorly written creation.

Did you even have 2-3 minutes to click around his website and gave a read to his other article "Something that I used to love"?

Your type of disparaging comments give the impression of HN to others what HN totally isn't. I don't know if you wrote your comment esp. for engagement baiting.

Coding as we knew it ten years ago isn’t dead. I have had a great time in the last quarter doing a little voluntary open source programming. I improve or make something and the upstream accepts it. I have fun and it isn’t just an idle hobby that is useless to anyone but me.

So I don’t buy that they are mourning it. Give me a freaking break. Mourn your professional programming, maybe? But if this is your “passion”? Freaking keep doing it voluntarily. Is playing in a rock band dead?

Or no? Too busy being a “code prompter” at Google? Sellout.

I'm not attached to coding either. But if someone else is, and feels the way that is alien to me, I am not gonna be disregarding their feelings either.

Passion is a feeling, and feeling changes.

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