A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.
HAHA they logged their whackin’ off activity into an app to upload that data to the cloud. Did they not ever think “what could go wrong with this?”
People just really let the damn phone apps run their whole lives don’t they. I’m so glad I got to grow up before smartphones existed.
Got to give them a hand. They really found a vast and **untapped **(emphasis) market.
Fucking dorks lmao
Ftr, women do this too with their menstrual cycles. Stop using apps to report your most intimate info and then being surprisepikachu.jpg when they harvest your data lol
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can we stop weaponizing “therapy speak” buzzwords for every, single, thing.
That isn’t victim-blaming, that’s not what that word means. Your stretched use of it here isn’t helpful outside of self-serving to show everyone that you know the word “victim-blame”, further diluting the word until it’s meaningless jargon speak. Stop.
I wonder how much of it was vibe coded. And how much the owners will have to give up because of the beach, if anything.
Probably not much. Most vibe code errors are because the developer sucks. And for how much you hear about it in the news, there’s billions of lines of code written every day that wasn’t “slop”
Most vibe code errors are because the developer sucks.
Correct, a developer that does not suck would not be vibecoding at all.
I bet most of you don’t know what vibe coding is and assume asking AI for any help at all qualifies.
I can also tell none of you developed anything significant if you think neglecting security concerns must be a result of vibe coding.
Found the vibecoder. At least copying and pasting snippets from SO required you to understand how to fit it into your exact situation and what conditions made it different or similar to the SO post, which maintains your mental model of the code.
Yeah the developer might suck but an accomplished developer would have to spend more time fixing bad vibe code that is generated due to limited context window and backwards reasoning by the AI.
Vibe coding is fast because it sucks and is so sloppy
Hard Disagree. Randomly saying “do this” and “fix this” is not how to work with AI. That’s going to get crap code…… because the developer has no idea how to use AI.
Let me guess, tried AI once three years ago, then never looked at it again, while confidently assuming nothing changed?
The new Qwen 3.5, for example, can have up to 1mil token window.
No investigation, no right to speak.
What a grift.
Giving a business details of your most intimate private life. What could go wrong!?
Nooooo not the gooners.
First they came for the gooners, but being gooners they already came themselves.
🥹🥲
Wow this comment section is actually awful. If you’re somehow seeing this early on in the list: get out of here before it’s too late. There are some really, really toxic takes in here.
You weren’t kidding, it’s baffling how they came to some of these conclusions.
I’m going in.
Me too!
You’re right! Holy fuck people are fucked. I want to respond to each of them and tell them so but there’s no point. I can’t educate them hard enough. I’ll have to settle for this release valve here.
Who says Lemmy can never replace Reddit?
If it didn’t have a subscription I’d get on there and see if I could get to the top of the leaderboard. If they know when guys are waxing the tadpole then they know who is doing it the most.
I’m in the wrong industry.
Need to find a grift like this…
Sometimes I think that myself - I’m probably capable of building something like this. But then the problem is that I am not a total piece of shit so I just work a regular job and live ok while people like this buy a new yacht.
Free to read from somewhere else(The first link i found on duck duck go). https://mashable.com/article/viral-quittr-app-to-quit-masturbation-exposed-sensitive-data
404media is a super high quality new independent news source and they specifically broke this story as they’ve been breaking a ton of big stories (it seems like at least one per week) since they started up. It’s run by a bunch of former Motherboard (Vice News) reporters who broke tons of big stories for Motherboard back in the day.
It sucks that it’s paywalled but journalists have to eat too and as an independent media company they don’t have the option of operating at a loss that, say, Arstechnica can as a subsidiary of the behemoth Conde Nast which itself is (was?) a subsidiary of AT&T
Mike Johnson?
While he may use this, I believe he used something called covenant eyes.
Still a terrible idea to trust a software to not expose you in one way or another.
Mike Johnson.
Fuck, there it is.
John Madden.
aeiou
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Mike Hawk
No, Mike Hunt
$500k a month?!
To literally do nothing but jerk each other off.
I’m as straight as could be but fucking sign me up.
Straight as spaghetti till it gets wet
So say we all.
Hmmm
No, no, they were trying to NOT jerk off
Not just, they’re watching and keeping track, too
its creators, Alex Slater and Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix the problem.
FUN! How much ya wanna bet this was vibe-coded?
Once you learn how to CODE, you’ll realize how dumb it is to blame everything on AI.
Once you learn how to code, you’ll realize how dumb it is to vibecode.
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Right. It’s called using AI. Not letting your vibes make decisions. Glad you agree.
The vibe coding thing is a meme that originated in what devs at Microsoft said about how they develop while using AI, if I recall correctly. So vibe-coding has become synonymous with using AI to write the majority of your code.
Vibecommenting?
“The software developer describes a project or task in a prompt to a large language model (LLM), which generates source code automatically. Vibe coding typically involves accepting AI-generated code without reviewing it, instead relying on results and follow-up prompts to guide changes.” A.I. written code. Software devs normally check the code for bugs not just accepting whatever code is thrown at them with no checks. It is why real developers are making money fixing the A.I. bullshit code.
Right. Actual vibe coding is rare in real development. Especially large companies. You’d know this if you were a developer. But it’s much more fun to complain about AI with such… “confidence.”
I’m confused why you linked a Wiki article that reiterates almost exactly what I said? Think the only difference is that it was originally coined by the dude who helped start OpenAI.
And no, most major dev teams aren’t “vibe coding,” but that’s where it becomes a meme. People use it as an insult as well for shit code.
Regardless, your main argument here that “real devs aren’t vibe coding,” is irrelevant, as the people in the original article don’t seem to be competent devs. It’s very possible they used AI-slop code; but, even if they didn’t, they did a piss-poor job so it might as well be insulted as such.
it’s called using AI
Oh, I thought it was called “another AWS outage”
AWS had outages before AI. But since you know nothing about software development, I’m not surprised you thought that.
cope
I wish I could be as dumb as you.
But don’t you see how many upvotes that got them?
I don’t see votes. And I assume you agree with everything that is upvoted like a good little slave?
I was being facetious and taking your side - thanks for insulting me for it.
That’s what a /s is for bud.
Yeah, totally my bad that you’re being a mean jerk.
One of my biggest gripes with coding AI like Claude is how desperately polite and flattering they are. I wish there was a way to feed it hand written code to analyze for bugs and security flaws, then have the AI relentlessly roast your shitty code.
"LMFAO, you dumb b!tch! Are you trying to get hacked and sued, by <insert dumb shit here> or are you just that stupid? Here are a few steps you can take to fix your shit code and have it adhere to standard coding practices. "
I don’t think it will ever cuss at you, but your can have it be more critical. It say to me all the time, “this or probably a bad idea, before I do this, consider this alternative” (paraphrasing)
You can give it rules.
I work with Gemini a lot and I told it to cut all the polite crap out and just give the facts I need.
On the rare occasion I use LLMs, I just wish they would respect my request for a list of like twenty bullets and nothing else, instead I get two paragraphs of bs and four bullets.
Sounds like Linus needs to pivot to make his own Claude clone…
So i was reading a thread from the linux kernel mailing list where linus pointed out someone’s coding mistake and why it would lead to a bug…
So i fed the patch email into google gemini pro, and it spotted the same bug as linus
I thought that was interesting.
That exact Linux kernel mailing list was pretty likely fed into the AI as training data.
This was an email from last week. No way gemini already had linus’ solution as part of its training data
Hey ChatGPT, respond to all of my inquiries like my toxic abusive uncle. The more vicious the response the better. Withhold praise. Pretend it’s opposite day and give me your best compliments in the form of the life-long truama that I have come to associate with authority figures.
Here’s my code. What do you think?
“I don’t have fingers to touch your butthole, Starry”
I figured out a way to do this, via Alpaca.
In Alpaca you can set an LLM with a persistent prompt.
Basically, I just told the thing hey, you’re too sycophantic, often needlessly verbose, and often overly confident… can you generate a prompt for yourself to address those issues?
Roughly 30 minutes of trial and error along those lines later, now its quite matter of fact, and is at least more likely to tell me when it is aware it is making an assumption, and ask me for clarification or if i can give it more context, and it doesn’t do the kind of weird, intro and outro paragraphs where it basically just reassures you that your ideas are wonderful and you are valid and i just think the things you say are so interesting!
Then, you feed it a script, ask it do a sanity check, and it will generally go through and identify strenghts and weakness of the code, at least as it perceives such.
Beyond that, Alpaca recently introduced a … character system, that is ostensibly tailored toward making specific kinds of conversational chat bots… but it also introduced a kind of ‘dictionary’ system, where you can give it a kind of additional permanent reference knowledge, to associate with certain terms.
I have not tried this yet, but, I’d be willing to be that you could say, jam that with a bunch of examples of syntax and methods from a particular language or library… and my guess would be that you could thus tailor a ‘character’ that is more up to date or specific to some domain.
So… you could give it the main prompt of something like “You are a tsuntsun senior programmer who has nothing but contempt for any coding mistakes, and you pride yourself on coming up with entirely novel insults for each inadequacy you notice.”
… And then give it a ‘dictionary’ that pertains to syntax, methods, perhaps even broader concepts…
And that might actually produce your desired vicious asshole senior programmer persona.
Of course, this is not going to work for like, an entire massive codebase, unless you’re the one stockpiling all
mythe RAM.But for smaller projects or just single scripts… it might kind of work.
can you generate a prompt for yourself to address those issues
Vibe vibing
It was, but the actual problem I have with the app is that it had 90% margin. Talk about quick and dirty cash grab.
those two details go hand-in-hand, do they not?
People in the comments blaming Christianity for allegedly “inventing” porn addiction. Guys, porn addiction is absolutely real and porn is to be considered a fully fledged drug. It destroys you from the inside. You don’t have to be a Christian to understand that porn is a fucking drug, the only reason why you don’t seem to understand this is because most of you all are so extremely and overwhelmingly addicted and in denial that likely haven’t even tried quitting once. If you can’t stop using it, whatever your opinion is on the subject, you are addicted.
I’m not saying I’ve never used it or that I don’t use it as well, but man we gotta be conscious about what we are doing. Back between 2023 and 2024 I was 100% porn free and just removing that basically fixed my life. Maybe you don’t have “ADHD” but just completely destroyed your dopamine receptors
It was. Modern extremist christians are convincing secular folks, that their ancient age beliefs are “common sense morality”. Some people are now even saying if it wasn’t for christianity’s “love thy neighbor”, we wouldn’t have freedom of religion, or that before the ten commandments people just murdered each other for no good reason.
Their choice of tactic to get back to cultural dominance is to secular wash their beliefs. “Porn addiction” started out from fundamentalist christian circles, and the only reason why science ever bothered with it (which by the way found it way less addictive than how fundamentalists tried to sell it) is due to it being pushed so hard by activists, who provided slightly secularized therapies through secular washed proxies. And whatever actual addiction it might have caused, is now buried under decades of therapies, that told you christianity is just “common sense” and how it’s the only non-falsifiable religion because some mountain has an indent on its peak.
And secular washing anti-porn sentiments is just the tip of the iceberg. The end goal of the push for transphobia is to push biblical patriarchy as “common sense”, the supposed problem being “temporary gender confusion”, and the panacea for it being the following of strict gender roles even if they won’t make you happy.
It has nothing to do with religion bro, it all comes down to how much stimulating is that kind of content. It is harmful for the same reason as doomscrolling on social Media is, just at 200x the disruptive power because it also involves repetitive movements and often masturbation itself, which can also be addictive in itself
Y’all should stop gooning and face reality. You are assuming that religion is lived in the same way as it is lived in America, but it IS NOT. We are not all puritan Christian fundamentalists. Not everyone is American, deal with it. Nobody in the pornfree and nofap community Is even considering Christianity
The whole goal of pro-porn propaganda is to make generations of men incapable of taking action and women who think that prostitution for the male glaze is a form of liberation. Where the heck did you take the transphobia thing and gender roles
I was gonna agree with you in the doomscrolling segment, then I read more, then I found this:
The whole goal of pro-porn propaganda is to make generations of men incapable of taking action and women who think that prostitution for the male glaze is a form of liberation.
🤣🤣🤣
Now tell me Chinese semen retention myths!🤣🤣🤣
Sex is considered fine even in the nofap community. I repeat, removing porn AND increasing real sex is good. Semen retention is not bad but it is psychologically unsustainable
There is no evidence that there is such a thing in the clinical sense of the term addiction.
