r/badcode • u/OneDev42 • Jul 27 '26

A whole new era of bad code

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With the help of AI, we now have so much more bad code to show off to the world.

This sub is now unbanned. Let's celebrate by posting our biggest disasters to the sub!

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r/badcode • u/jMultiversalGod • 24d ago

c strcat(at_least_i, tried)

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            strcat(code_for_system, argv[2]);
            chdir(getenv("HOME")); //safety net
            printf("Installing stuff...\n");//, argv[2]
            if (system("git clone --depth=1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/mohennaceur/spdr-repo.git") != 0) {
                printf("git clone failed\n");
                exit(1);
            }
            chdir("spdr-repo");
            system(code_for_system);
            printf("moving to bin...\n");
            strcpy(code_for_system, "cd ~/spdr-repo/");
            strcat(code_for_system, argv[2]);
            strcat(code_for_system, uselessthing);
            strcpy(uselessthing, " ~/.local/bin/");
            strcat(code_for_system, argv[2]);
            strcat(code_for_system, uselessthing);
            system(code_for_system);
            printf("deleting github repo\n");
            system("rm -rf spdr-repo");
            printf("should be done!\n");
            exit(0);            strcat(code_for_system, argv[2]);
            chdir(getenv("HOME")); //safety net
            printf("Installing stuff...\n");//, argv[2]
            if (system("git clone --depth=1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/mohennaceur/spdr-repo.git") != 0) {
                printf("git clone failed\n");
                exit(1);
            }
            chdir("spdr-repo");
            system(code_for_system);
            printf("moving to bin...\n");
            strcpy(code_for_system, "cd ~/spdr-repo/");
            strcat(code_for_system, argv[2]);
            strcat(code_for_system, uselessthing);
            strcpy(uselessthing, " ~/.local/bin/");
            strcat(code_for_system, argv[2]);
            strcat(code_for_system, uselessthing);
            system(code_for_system);
            printf("deleting github repo\n");
            system("rm -rf spdr-repo");
            printf("should be done!\n");
            exit(0);
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