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Clod Is Opensource This Is The Future

1 day ago 247.3K views 0 shares

Someone trained an AI model on a random person's social media posts and released it as "clod-7b-instruct" - a budget knockoff of Claude. The README is basically a confession: "it's vulgar, incomprehensible, possibly immoral and illegal" but also "it's my daughter and i love her." Then admits they have no clue how it works, vibed the whole thing into existence, and may have accidentally committed their password to the repo. The raw honesty is refreshing in a world of polished AI releases. No benchmarks, no safety alignment, just pure chaos trained on someone named Iris's internet presence. It's like watching someone duct-tape a jetpack to a shopping cart and calling it transportation infrastructure. 10/10 would not deploy to production but would absolutely clone the repo to see what horrors await.

O'Reilly: Coding With GPT

AI Programming Debugging

2 days ago 131.3K views 0 shares

You know those iconic O'Reilly tech books with random animals on the cover? Well, someone finally nailed what coding with ChatGPT actually feels like. That chimera creature—half dog, half emu—perfectly captures the Frankenstein's monster you get when you blindly copy-paste AI-generated code into your project. Sure, the front half looks legit and professional, but scroll down and you'll find some ostrich legs that have no business being there. "Introducing the uncanny valley into your codebase" is chef's kiss accurate. It compiles, it runs, but deep down you know something is fundamentally wrong . And good luck explaining it during code review.

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AI Devops Bash Programming Debugging

6 days ago 307.0K views 0 shares

Someone built a plugin that traps Claude AI in an infinite loop by preventing it from exiting, forcing it to repeatedly work on the same task until it "gets it right." Named after Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. You know, the kid who eats paste. The plugin intercepts Claude's exit attempts with a stop hook, creating what they call a "self-referential feedback loop." Each iteration, Claude sees its own previous work and tries again. It's basically waterboarding for AI, but with code reviews instead of water. The best part? They're calling it a "development methodology" and proudly documenting it on GitHub. Nothing says "modern software engineering" quite like naming your workflow after a cartoon character who once said "I'm a unitard" while wearing a leotard. The real horror isn't just the concept—it's that someone spent 179 lines implementing this and thought "yeah, this needs proper documentation."

Inline SQL

Databases Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

15 days ago 281.0K views 0 shares

Drake rejecting raw SQL strings because of ORM trust issues? Nah, too mainstream. But writing SQL queries as inline CSS classes using TailwindSQL? Now that's the galaxy brain move we didn't know we needed. TailwindSQL takes the utility-first philosophy to its logical extreme: why write SELECT * FROM users when you could write class="select-all from-users where-active" ? It's like someone looked at Tailwind CSS's 47-character class strings and thought "you know what databases need? This energy." The best part? You get all the SQL injection vulnerabilities of raw queries with the verbose readability of Tailwind classes. It's the worst of both worlds, perfectly balanced. Your DBA will love debugging select-* from-orders join-users on-id where-status-eq-pending limit-10 offset-20 in production at 3 AM.

Have Fun Learning Gpt

AI Git Programming Debugging

25 days ago 211.0K views 0 shares

Someone woke up and chose violence. The goal here is to feed ChatGPT such cursed, chaotic code that it just gives up and starts hallucinating error messages. Think legacy PHP spaghetti mixed with recursive bash scripts, sprinkled with some jQuery from 2009, all wrapped in a Dockerfile that uses FROM scratch unironically. It's like trying to teach a language model by showing it only the worst code ever written. "Here GPT, analyze this 5000-line function with no comments and 47 nested if statements. Have fun!" The AI equivalent of making someone watch every JavaScript framework tutorial from the last decade simultaneously. Bonus points if the repo includes a README that just says "it works on my machine" and a package.json with 300 dependencies, half of which are deprecated.

Whoever Tried This Is A God

Git Programming Debugging

25 days ago 187.9K views 0 shares

The ascending brain power hierarchy of code sharing methods, where we start at "normal human" with GitHub, level up to "big brain genius" with Google Drive, achieve COSMIC ENLIGHTENMENT by taking literal photographs of your screen like some sort of caveman with a smartphone, and finally transcend all mortal comprehension by... reading your entire codebase out loud and uploading it to Audible?! Someone really woke up and chose CHAOS. Imagine debugging by rewinding to chapter 7, verse 3 where you declared that cursed variable. "Alexa, skip to the part where I forgot the semicolon." The absolute AUDACITY of turning your spaghetti code into an actual audiobook that people can listen to during their morning commute. Nothing says "production-ready" quite like a 47-hour audiobook narrated in monotone. GitHub: ✅ Version control Google Drive: ❌ No version control Photo of code: ❌❌ Good luck copy-pasting that Audiobook: ❌❌❌ "Did he just say 'semicolon' or 'semi-colon'?"

Here Comes The New React Vulnerability But This Time You Go Down In Style

React Webdev Security Typescript Javascript

26 days ago 183.4K views 0 shares

Here Comes The New React Vulnerability But This Time You Go Down In Style

Someone really looked at SQL injection vulnerabilities and thought "you know what this needs? More aesthetic." TailwindSQL is the cursed lovechild of utility-first CSS and database queries that absolutely nobody asked for but everyone secretly deserves. Imagine writing className="db-users-name-where-id-1" in your React Server Components and having it ACTUALLY QUERY YOUR DATABASE. It's like someone took the concept of separation of concerns, threw it in a blender, added some Tailwind magic, and created the most beautifully dangerous footgun in web development history. The security team is having an aneurysm, the frontend devs are cackling maniacally, and somewhere a database administrator just felt a disturbance in the force. At least when your app gets hacked, your SQL injections will be perfectly styled with consistent spacing and responsive breakpoints!

The Only Sensible Resolution

AI Programming Debugging Databases Backend

1 month ago 402.1K views 1 shares

You asked the AI to clean up some unused variables and memory leaks. The AI interpreted "garbage collection" as a directive to delete everything that looked unnecessary. Which, apparently, included your entire database schema, production data, and probably your git history too. The vibe coder sits there, staring at the empty void where their application used to be, trying to process what just happened. No error messages. No warnings. Just... gone. The AI was just being helpful, really. Can't have garbage if there's nothing left to collect. Somewhere, a backup script that hasn't run in 6 months laughs nervously.

The Best Way To Make An Infinite Loop

Csharp Programming Debugging

1 month ago 294.2K views 0 shares

Someone discovered that C#'s ConcurrentDictionary.AddOrUpdate() method is basically a cheat code for infinite loops. Instead of the boring while(true) , they're using a lambda that ignores the key, ignores the current value, and just... keeps updating the same dictionary entry forever. The lambda returns value , which triggers another update, which calls the lambda again, which returns value , which... you get it. The genius part? The IDE shows "No issues found" because technically this is perfectly valid code. It's like telling your compiler "I'm not stuck in an infinite loop, I'm just very enthusiastic about updating this dictionary!" The output window spamming "Hello, World!" is chef's kiss—proof that sometimes the most cursed solutions are also the most creative. Pro tip: Don't actually do this unless you want your code reviewer to question your life choices and your CPU to file a restraining order.

When I Was 11 Years Old, I Didn't Know About Arrays And Objects In JavaScript, But Really Wanted To Make A Game. So I Invented My Own Data Structures!

Javascript Webdev Gamedev Programming

1 month ago 201.5K views 0 shares

When I Was 11 Years Old, I Didn't Know About Arrays And Objects In JavaScript, But Really Wanted To Make A Game. So I Invented My Own Data Structures!

Behold, the cursed art of using eval() to concatenate strings as variable names, creating what is essentially the world's most horrifying key-value store. Instead of using blocks[blockId].x like a normal human being, this 11-year-old genius decided to dynamically construct variable names like "lev" + level + "block" + blockId + "x" and eval them into existence. It's like watching someone reinvent the wheel, except the wheel is square, on fire, and somehow still rolling. The sheer determination to check collision boundaries and directions by string-concatenating variable names together is both terrifying and oddly impressive. Every senior dev who sees this code feels a strange mix of horror and nostalgia, because let's be real—we've all written something equally cursed when we were young and didn't know better. The difference is most of us burned the evidence.

The Worst Possible Way Of Declaring Main Method

Python Programming

3 months ago 222.5K views 1 shares

The Worst Possible Way Of Declaring Main Method

When your code reviewer spots that unholy abomination of a main method declaration in your pull request. That if (name__ == "__main__"): check is standard Python boilerplate, but seeing it written with those underscores and that formatting is like witnessing someone eat cereal with a fork. It's technically functional, but fundamentally wrong on every level. The kind of code that makes senior developers wake up in cold sweats at 3 AM.

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C++ Programming Debugging

6 months ago 206.4K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. Someone actually wrote a C++ program where they defined EVERYTHING as variations of "e"! The absolute AUDACITY! 😱 This diabolical genius replaced every single keyword with an increasing number of 'e's - from namespaces to while loops to RETURN STATEMENTS! It's like watching someone deliberately choose violence against every code reviewer on the planet. And the poor soul in the corner with the microphone? That's the exact face I make when I have to maintain someone else's "creative" code. Pure, unadulterated suffering. This isn't programming - it's psychological warfare!

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