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pingAmanInSlack
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The system works
Nope the original error didn’t get fixed. Just removed the notification.
The system works.. for Aman
holly molly the world is so small, this guy used to be my landlord
Which one?
Author of the tweet, very cool guy
Which tweet?
all of them
Dishwasher is broken, ping Aman in slack
Holey moley I have never seen it spelled that way, but I'm gonna use it.
definitely using holly molly going forward
What a way to dox yourself
Yes, because everyone knows who Kryzsztof's ex-tenant is and where they live now.
I do
Should I go visit him? He lives 5 minutes from my shoot
No Luigi dont
You can even ping Awoman
I would ping aPerson
no shit, i thought its aMotorboat
aAttack Helicopter
Aonejoke
aMon?
\the only LoK amon gif :()
Not just Aman, but Awoman, and Achildren too!
I'm not a girl... not yet awoman
Can you though? In an IT company?
Only in slack
Iman
🎶
Here is somethin' you can't understand
(How I could just ping Aman)
🎶
<<monitor vibrates from subwoofer>>
did the cursor devs use cursor to vibe code cursor? how did this get to prod
I mod the Sims 2. Somewhere in one of the lesser used localizations of some piece of text or other is a note in English to get the translation from some specific EA employee, which presumably displays instead of that text when you play the game in that language. That game released in 2004, humans have been doing this for 20 years before generative AI was even used for coding.
There's also an error message (which technically only displays if you put the game into debug mode rather than release mode, but this is actually generally recommended for a variety of reasons) that says "you sent me a crappy GUID, please fix".
note in English to get the translation from some specific EA employee, which presumably displays instead of that text [... in the proper] language.
As the Welsh would say, "Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwchunrhyw waith i'w gyfielthu."
"Okay sweetie, now go ahead and dispel your demonling summon and get to bed. You've got a long day ahead of you tomorrow."
I'm going to assume that's the translation of that common Welsh saying.
I went really deep into modding some by now ancient game once (Hegemonia, if anyone cares), to the point of trying a de-compiler to understand how the AI scripts worked.
Turned out there were a bunch of prototype functions with comments about how it should work, but the game defaulted back to "if X time elapsed, chase the nearest target forever".
It was nice to see that the dev was as frustrated with it as I was.
wow, what a game. Seems obscure ish too
Reminds me of "allan please add details"
Wait, what?
I'm sure AI is widely used nowadays but this specifically sounds like a very human mistake and not like one AI would make.
No joke, I had a "Tell [NAME] to check the network" error in some code that my coworkers put through ChatGPT.
The next week, I was bombarded with "Tell [NAME] to reinstall CUDA" and "Tell [NAME] to open the file" because the AI had apparently assumed I could fix anything and had copied a bunch of windows in, without me knowing 😭
Okay, THAT's why I'm not worried about how useful my CS degree will be.
You should still be a bit worried from incompetent HR/managers thinking AI is worth cutting labor force though
surely theyll learn to not do that when shit breaks and things get erased
This is the funniest vibe code artifact I've seen yet, thanks for sharing.
Being the go-to guy at my office for fixing weird issues I'm sitting here like "you're not wrong, but you got there for the wrong reason", lol.
Chatgpt is so smart it even knows exactly what guy to ask to help
f"Please ping {os.getCurrentUser()} on slack"
The call is coming from inside the house?
That's what I say every time there's a "Contact your system administrator about this error" message.
No, it's a representation of how this could be vibe coded. The AI just looks up the current user
When my mother was working, a piece of software that her company bought the source for included a comment to the effect of "this should never happen; if it does, call Steve at <phone number>".
My mother and her team didn't touch the comment, just in case they would need to call Steve later.
To be honest, I have done that too but I also only write company internal software
It's internal right up until the day the company realizes they can monetize it.
And that's how slack was born
Literally did that last week. While it should be impossible, there is technically an exception handler that effectively says, "This shouldn't ever happen. If it does, contact BugReports@nameofcompany.com indicating the issue."
It's me. I'm BugReports.
:(
Wait what?
Which AI would put "Cpp is somehow disabled. Please ping Aman in slack and open console logs to see the stack trace" into your code? That's a human note meant for other humans.
AI doesn't randomly put stuff like that into your code
They do, esp if AI has access to docs through some MCP of sorts
I was reacting to the “widely used” part. We have enough CVEs as it is.
Oh, sorry, lol. I didn't necessarily mean whole "vibecoded" sections but to think developers nowadays aren't using it to at least ask questions, debug or copy code snippets is naive I think. And that's completely fine. Just don't copy stuff you don't understand or would not be able to write yourself.
I’m a coder myself and I don’t use it for coding. Maybe if I need to do some intern task like extract all Shopify permissions and descriptions into an excel file using the section name permission name and description as columns so I can define roles in new columns later on. And you would be surprised how stupid this so called intelligence is, it takes for ever to get it done right. After trying them all deepseek was the only one which did a decent work.
Unless it's in the training data
Doesn't the screenshot say "Radon IDE"? Even in Cursor, it could easily be some extension unrelated to Cursor devs, no?
thats just a vscode/ cursor extension and unrelated to the error
It was Cursor, a guy in the thread posted that he pinged Aman and a screenshot of Aman removing the notification in a github PR.
Would it be possible to see this sequence of events anywhere.
Yes.
I have seen way worse in prod long before generative AI
Every big codebase has one of those 1 in a billion fail cases with a console log like "this should never happen so i'll write something funny here"
how did this get to prod
*Alien guy meme*
Humans !
Do you think the "we make faster coding tools" people would then NOT use their own tools?
Please judge that against "how did this get to prod", which one seems less realistic to you?
I write my name when I’m debugging specific things sometimes and I’ve had a couple instances of it going to prod. Whoops
Well, devs constantly use compilers to improve compilers, if I understand that correctly?
yes, in ThePrimeagen sponsored Cursor stream, a Cursor Dev confirmed he vibes code with Cursor on Cursor's code base
Reminds me of that old Adobe error that basically said something along the lines of “XYZ write the error message for this” and then they added it back as an easter egg in later versions?
this is so fucking funny. I love it
Can anyone explain what this meme is? I've never used cursorai. How did the user get that warning?
Aman or one of his juniors fucked up
plot twist: Aman is an ai agent, juniors don't exist
There is no spoon
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would production still be broken if Cursor hadn't written anything?
What I think happened is that there were some intermittent bug that they were not able to reliably reproduce. A problem with this kind of bug is that QA will usually just log the bug and then reset for the next test without giving developers time to debug the issue. The assumption is that the bug can easily be reproduced using the same steps.
What Aman have done here is written some code to detect the bug but instead of a normal error message he asks the tester to contact him directly and prepare for a debugging session. The issue is that this error message made its way into a production build and were sent out to users. The user did not have access to their internal slack as QA would have and likely did not have access to the debug console requested. So the fix was to remove the message, either only from the production build if they still had not figured out the bug or if they had fixed the bug to remove the message from all builds.
Probably something from a dev build sneak into production
AI : Actually Indian
Aman Sanger is a New Yorker, not an Indian. He's one of the founders of Cursor.
of Indian descent obviously?
idk could just as well be Pakistani.
Pakistani Denzel
Don't care - sounds Indian enough.
Spoken like ICE.
It's tongue in cheek as someone said.
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- not american.
- it's kind of a reference to another "Don't care - ___ enough." phrase I see around in reddit.
- it does sound Indian, you bloody twit.
Yeah, this is a no-no, akin to calling black french people Africans instead of French, which is pretty racist.
Do better.
It’s obviously tounge in cheek
"No, see this can't be racist because it's a joke! About his race!"
Being a dick and being a dick "sarcastically" is pretty much the same thing. It's just rude.
So that's the phrase, good to know.
Indian name
No that’s builder.ai
ASI - Aman Sanger Intelligence
By god, he's not even followed one flashy CSS tutorial.
In what world is Ready Player One a better book than The Dispossessed?? I do agree with him about Hyperion tho.
Not the lex Friedman podcast 😩
Dude gave Atlas Shrugged a perfect score with this comment: "The following month, I worked 100 hour weeks"
These AI techbros are such dipshits.
I was telling GPT that it should be able to contact their devs within certain thresholds 😆
Ping Aman in slack, he'll bugfix for a day. Teach Aman to slack... he'll tell you his code is compiling
At least now we know what it means to ping Aman in Slack - message gone, problem solved. Mission accomplished!
Im Aman, thats my name
where's our stack trace Aman
Just like that
I actually encountered this with my first / last name when internal error that mentions me was shown all the way to end users on UI. They did reach out to me and I had a very good laugh.
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i like how someone decided a bot that copies a paragraph from another comment in the same bloody thread would somehow be profitable
wait, is that a fix or did he just remove the message?
Well the user no longer gets an error message that means it's fixed, no?
When it shows 'Yes' does it mean that it is in 'Yes' state now or that it will become 'Yes' when the switch is triggered?
Yes
Or no
Maybe... I don't know, can you repeat the question?
Y () o
r/inclusiveor
yesno
Maybe()
Dev logic: if it works, it works
Aman is busy, he doesn't time to fix every shitty programmers problems.
Aman should have a chatbot called Aiman to deal with these types of issues
Aaaaaaand Aiman stopped programming and likes hitler now
it's been known for years that doing programming makes you a fascist
or a furry
The issue is actually caused by a part of the system owned by another team so not really Aman's responsibility to fix it
Yes
What's the difference?
legendary
Can't be positive for COVID if you don't test for it!
I think that just did a slack ping to kill the aman.