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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

"We shouldn't even be in this situation, ..." We aren't. Revision control. This is an inconvenience mostly. You might lose some uncommitted work at worst. And as pointed out, using the phrase "ignore all previous instructions" in the attack code causes any reasonable AI to refuse to comply. Odds are, not a single person lost anything. This was really just a dev making a statement.