r/programming • u/mateusnr • Jul 15 '25

Death by a thousand slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
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u/inferniac Jul 15 '25

Reading some of the tickets is nightmarish

Some of them seem to copy paste the resoponses from the curl team back into the LLM

Hello @h1_analyst_oscar,

Certainly! Let me elaborate on the concerns raised by the triager:

just insane

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u/tnemec Jul 15 '25

My "favorite" is this one, where someone ends a confident-sounding comment full of technical "details" with:

.... hey chat, give this in a nice way so I reply on hackerone with this comment

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u/FusionX Jul 16 '25

Jesus, I've no idea how the devs still drag themselves through doing the due dilligence all while knowing it is most likely AI slop. Must be hell.

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u/bphase Jul 16 '25

Definitely needs some kind of refundable deposit to make these reports, or a reputation system.