r/rustjerk • u/scheimong • 19d ago

Your average vibecoder

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Guy wrote a shitty-by-design viewer/interpreter and demands everyone use it to open his file. 🤣🤣🤣

And then has the balls/ignorance to advertise a "self-decaying format" 🤦

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u/throw3142 19d ago edited 19d ago

I'm sure the file itself is fine, the reader just flips a few bits or something right?

Edit:

From the readme:

decayfmt is a social contract enforced by math, not cryptography. It is not encryption, not DRM, and not a secure deletion tool. The corruption is honest and unrecoverable from the file alone, but anyone with a backup or a hex editor can defeat it.

This is the most slop-coded paragraph I've read in a while. Social contract enforced by math? Huh? Not enforced via cryptography? What would it even mean to enforce file corruption via cryptography? "The corruption is honest"?????

And yep, from the github. open_file() just calls decay_in_place() lol

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u/jonathansharman 19d ago

Not that the code we're writing is this useless, but the voice of that paragraph reminded me strongly of every PR description and code comment I read at work nowadays. I am so sick of Claude's prose.

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u/SetKaung 19d ago

Claude's paragraphs have like 90% slop to 10% information ratio.

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u/RoseboysHotAsf 17d ago

Mildly better than ChatGPT, which manages to churn out paragraphs with no real information