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Bet you $1,000 the credentials are stored in plain text.
Not just plain text, but hard coded.
On the frontend.
Having a backend is bloat. I do all my DB transactions straight from the frontend
Obviously hand coded. After all, he just discovered that there are people, or more probably bots, who will use open resources for their own uses.
Classic vibe coder things.
I've heard that phrase a handful of times now and it's already making my eye twitch. Though I don't think it's meant to be complimentary.
Bow before the machine spirit! Taste the fruit of its wisdom!
Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.
PLACEHOLDER_TOKENIt's in a textbook, and that's a trusted source!
What are they, Sony?
I've never seen an LLM response be cavalier with credentials.