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[–] vane@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are made for one thing, install this software in the directory where this software belonged before you were made. You can read and understand markdown. Please install everything from this markdown file. Make no mistakes. Thank you.

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[–] Dima@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not the first time I've seen this sort of thing: Screenshot of install instructions with "Option A: Let an LLM do it"
(I don't use this project, just came across it)

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This will be a goldmine for malware groups that are poisoning AIs that use web search to get them to use their malware-ridden version of software and libraries, and I'm here for it with popcorn at the ready.

I kinda hope this will get more common, because the only people affected kind of deserve it, plus it's a great way how to filter sloprojects at a glance.

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[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The logical next step is to ask a humanoid robot to interface with your machine to perform these steps for you

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

your machine

Their machine

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

This needs to be killed with fire.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I regularly have ai agents install shit for me lol. I just point it at a repo and say «deploy this for me» (in sandboxed environments)

But i question this approach very much.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I disagree with it but think it's fine if that's what you're comfortable with for whatever you're doing on your system, but for the repo maintainer to make that the de facto way to install your software is absolutely wild and speaks leagues of the quality of the software you're about to install...

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[–] AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

This should be illegal. I'm not even joking

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