Programmer Humor

I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to see an issue.

No amount of vibe coding will ever be able to match the absolute atrocities produced by a first year engineer

Even if it didn't outright display the code you need to enter, my guess is this and similar implementations hide further vulnerabilities like: the numbers aren't generated with a secure random number generator, or the validation call isn't resistant to simple brute force quickly guessing every possible number, or the number is known client side for validation, etc.

Looks like someone left their debug code in.

Honestly, probably not much less secure than SMS.

I'm a fan of AI, I know that's unpopular here but I think it's a cool tool.

But you need to know what you are doing and how to program. I've said before we are going to see sooo much of this

The reality is we will always need engineers. Certainly not ready yet, but we probably won't always need "programmers" - which is a shame because I do get a kick out of solving a really complex problem in a super elegant way

I've seen very similar in the wild, the webapp would send a request to the API with the numbers so that the captcha image was generated

It took me a while to notice the problem. Am I an AI?

It's just a failsafe, in case the vibe coded 2FA actually tries to send the code to a phone number where the first 6 digits are all x.

I achieve better results when I'm drunk-coding.

I love it, hate having to check my phone for these, brilliant choice to put the code onscreen

You're going to have a phase where very important software systems are going to be designed and maintained by people who are not developers in the traditional sense. LLMs give the MBA class an excuse to do cost cutting, which you're seeing across the board. This means either them or more junior developers will be brought in as glorified prompt engineers. The code they end up creating will be based on all the problems of the LLMs. Hallucinations, etc. After the dotcom boom and the move to digitize everything, the value of a company ended up becoming the software and data it produces. This gave the nerds a great employment leverage over the MBA class, because it's not like they were going to solve all the problems and digitize all the value. Now this trend is reversing, and the value of many non-software companies is actually in the software they produced over the past two decades. During this time, large amounts of jobs were lost after moving on premise hosting to the cloud. Now these same handful of tech companies who already own the infrastructure of an increasing number of companies, is also producing LLM agents that are meant to replace the brains and value behind their software. So if a group of AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc all start owning both the infrastructure, data and the brains to create and maintain the software, who really begins to own all of these companies over time?

At any rate, the failure potential of these changes are high and itself will hopefully create a lot of jobs by knowledgeable people who come in to fix the mistakes...

It'd be funny if you enter 435841 and it's like "SIKE!"

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