Man, my friend said he made a web app. He asked me if it would be secure to deploy. I check the front end and immediately check if his formatting was readable.
Two javascript blocks embedded: one was beautified, normal, tabbed out.
The other block was debeautified, which JS developers do so people can’t steal their code (as if that works these days).
I said, “You didn’t make this.”
“Yeah I did!”
“You used AI.”
“But I wrote the prompts!”
"To prompt a computer to steal two separate snippets of javascript from actual developers to achieve the goal.
"Man, this is fine for prototyping, just to demo an idea. But I wouldn’t release this to the public, because if I saw that, I am going to use the tools I already have, and my LLM to speed up the actions, and I will show you how hackable the app actually is.
“You didn’t make a steak. You ordered a steak and got a McRib with carrots.”
He responds, “Does it look ok?”
“Yeah, we can use the css, and we can adjust that as needed, but if your frontend is this sloppy, I wouldn’t release the backend and take customer data. Hell no.”
Man, my friend said he made a web app. He asked me if it would be secure to deploy. I check the front end and immediately check if his formatting was readable.
Two javascript blocks embedded: one was beautified, normal, tabbed out.
The other block was debeautified, which JS developers do so people can’t steal their code (as if that works these days).
I said, “You didn’t make this.”
“Yeah I did!”
“You used AI.”
“But I wrote the prompts!”
"To prompt a computer to steal two separate snippets of javascript from actual developers to achieve the goal.
"Man, this is fine for prototyping, just to demo an idea. But I wouldn’t release this to the public, because if I saw that, I am going to use the tools I already have, and my LLM to speed up the actions, and I will show you how hackable the app actually is.
“You didn’t make a steak. You ordered a steak and got a McRib with carrots.”
He responds, “Does it look ok?”
“Yeah, we can use the css, and we can adjust that as needed, but if your frontend is this sloppy, I wouldn’t release the backend and take customer data. Hell no.”