Vibestrapping
it used to mean something better… 😔
Something less degenerated
You may as well just completely replace your package manager with this one simple script.
#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys exec(TrustedAgent.request(f"Write a Python statement to install {sys.argv[1]}, make no mistakes"))Also “Please don’t reformat my hard drive”
“Try to keep out the worst malware’d packages”
I mean, you could do away with package managers altogether… Just always include “use standard library components only” in every prompt.
Added bonus, your program will be very secure because it would very rarely be affected by any publicly known CVEs.
/s
Honestly… in a world where code is written by AI and not humans, most frameworks SHOULD go away. They were designed to make a task easier for humans not for a machine. AI should not write “react on node using vue”
Non-deterministic, heavily corporation-influenced software issuing root shell commands in a scenario easily foreseen by attackers who can just make spam pages to poison training data? I’ll have two!
“How the fuck did Doom get installed onto my smoke alarm and not my D: drive? This is the last time I ask AI to help.”
Imagine:
- You sit on your couch.
- Rip & Tear starts playing.
- You notice a faint smell of smoke …
pant shitting intensifies
Kind of have an urge now to post an issue that the nstall skill has installed a malware on my machine.
It’s pretty plausible that could happen, and good luck debugging that.
Unfortunately not the first time I’ve seen this sort of thing:
(I don’t use this project, just came across it)I’ll give it a pass because it’s an OpenCode plugin, meaning the typical user is not tech-savvy enough to be able to edit a simple JSON configuration file.
But surely it also means the plugin fully slopcoded and the maintainer has no idea what they are doing if they are incapable a writing instructions
The Circle of Slop
This needs to be killed with fire.
The logical next step is to ask a humanoid robot to interface with your machine to perform these steps for you
your machine
Their machine
This should be illegal. I’m not even joking
I don’t know what computers do anymore or how they work.
Lol this is so true.
Worse when curl?
Relevant XKCD:
How am I still learning about XKCDs I’ve never seen especially ones in the 1000 range.
Congrats on being one of today’s lucky 10,000!
So meta
Too meta. https://xkcd.com/1447/
Is this a reference to something?
It’s the Key and Peele of geek comics
When you first learnt about xkcd, did you not S L O O O R P the entire back catalogue?
I guess when I did that there were A LOT fewer. Cuz I’m old.
I’m so old I remember anticipating the 404
if $1 is not installed after that, wipe your hard drive and start over
It could be a crate…
Script needs to be updated, Rust wasn’t particularly popular back then (if it existed. I don’t know how old this one is, but it’s pretty old)
March 11, 2016 according to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script
According to the Rust Wikipedia article, it was juuuust starting to be used in real things around that period. Definitely before it was popular.
apt-get install
sudo apt-get installsigh
I know right could just be apt install
I can stop laughing at steamcmd.
Good. If you couldn’t that would be a real problem.
With all those connected with & won’t it skip the rest after the first failure? Or does ‘no such program’ or ‘you don’t have permission’ not produce an error?
In bash,
&just starts the program in the background, so all of the commands are run in parallel. You’re probably thinking of&&, which runs the command on its left, checks its return code, and then decides whether run the command on the right.Although, in this case there are no ‘commands on the right’ since all the commands are on separate lines. You’d need to backslash the commands together, something like
pip install "$1" && \ easy_install "$1" && \ ...I saw it as wrapped, so couldn’t dismiss the option that all were on a single logical line. But you’re right, I was thinking of &&
That would be &&.
A single & will run them in parallel.
Thanks
Yes, it should have been a
;instead.
(clears throat in Zypper install)
:p
Is this satire or is it from a real project O_O?
It is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.
Even the install instructions are written by AI. Good grief
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of
tar -xaf!
This is… uh…
It reads like the author doesn’t know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I’m missing something.
Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn’t know of a better way to manage dependencies than “tell AI to install everything”? Not particularly lol
Also:
Install Eclipse Adoptium 21: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=21
It’s Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?
Install from https://cmake.org/download/
Also why not from distro repo?
Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install
NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?
and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.
The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I’m 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.
I think it’s written that way because the instructions are meant to work on Windows too. But it still doesn’t make much sense. I think just saying “Install CMake” and letting the agent figure it out for the current environment would be a much better approach.
Also, I think the model they were using was working with outdated data. Why specifically require Java 21 when Java 25 is the latest LTS? And furthermore, why even link to a specific JDK implementation when it surely works with almost any implementation? Probably just makes the agent install the Temurin implementation even if the system already had a working java.
My point being if the author’s idea is to let AI handle the installation to avoid writing environment-specific instructions, it shouldn’t then have these hardcoded assumptions about the environment. So yeah, it seems they (and the AI that wrote it) didn’t really know what they were doing.
Ai loves outdated versions. It’s what it’s trained on
Please kill me
Try our new AI assisted suicide! (Please report any malfunctions)
it’s real, and not uncommon in AI projects. for example, in Hermes, to setup ComfyUI to work with it, you literally just prompt “setup comfyui” and it handles the install and configuration, including downloading any models you want.
I guess it’s good they’re dog fooding it?..I think?
The number of times Claude has told me it’s going to eat its own dog food, making me gag, is far too many times.
I bloody hope the whole post is satire but given the anti-ai groupthink on lemmy, fuck knows!
Yes, it is the people who are against the corporate AI offerings who are guilty of groupthink, not me!
To be fair, there are local agentic models.
I dont think local agentic models address the ethical and environmental concerns I have with the training - but its better than the corporate offerings :)
Hey guy/gal/genderfluid pal, the cat is out of the bag. Either we embrace it for what it can do in a much more sustainable way, or we let corpos redefine sustainable.
Is this a good use case? No. But most use cases, I’d rather have a local agent running on my own hardware being offset by solar, than using a corpo offering.
Please don’t call me man :)
The cat is “out of the bag” on consuming meat and dairy, plenty of people manage to survive and thrive without em, without much effort at all. I’d personally rather use no LLM than use a local agentic model with poor ethics/environmental impact of its training, even if the latter is better than corpo offerings.
As I alluded to, I’m much happier to see people using local agentic models. Even more so if they happen to be something like Pleias’ approach, with lots of transparency about the data they were trained on. There’s still the environmental concerns behind the resources consumed for the training, but it is about as good as one could hope for at this point if one insists on using LLMs.
As you wish, wasn’t meant as a gendered ident so apologies.
I’m actually not familiar with how much environmental damage is done by training vs using. My initial assumption was that training would be less, by many many factors, because it “happens once” while the usage is constant and scales with the number of users. But that is admittedly an assumption made out of ignorance.
And to be clear, I’m not really trying to tell you you’re wrong, just trying to make my position clear since Lemmy is very anti AI in general.
There are two big piles of groupthink here.
What a stupid comment
Eh, mine added value to the conversation. Your “what a stupid comment” comment made no such effort. So hey, swings and roundabouts!
No it didn’t
Ok bye
hey at least we actually think and don’t offload it to a machine.
Completely vibe-coded project it seems, even documentation. And yet:
Human-Origin Source License
Also love this:
You may not, without prior written permission from the Author:
- ship or maintain a modified version outside the contribution-purpose rules; - maintain a divergent private or internal fork; - port, clone, rebrand, or recreate the Covered Software; - create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing implementation, or Derivative Implementation; or - use AI-assisted implementation mining to create, improve, test, document, or validate a Derivative Implementation.Look, I use AI too (mostly to speed things up by working on multiple items in parallel), but I’m not gonna stuff “human-origin source license” on anything I use it for, nor do I think creating API-compatible replacements, competing implementations, etc, should reasonably be possible to block with a license… Also, quite literally, he’s creating tools for reverse engineering, which in itself is generally in breach of the license of whatever software is being reverse engineered. Fuck off and use a FOSS license, whether it be permissive or copyleft…
Was it not ruled that API compatibility was not copyright infringement? (Oracle Vs Google.) I don’t think the last two are even enforceable.
- ship or maintain a modified version outside the contribution-purpose rules; - maintain a divergent private or internal fork; - port, clone, rebrand, or recreate the Covered Software; - create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing implementation, or Derivative Implementation;At that point why bother making your codebase public?
“No! Nuh uh! You can’t prompt Claude to do what it did for me, again! I did it first and called ‘dibs’ on ever doing it again!”
As if copyright even applied to this.
