Post #2949687
2026-05-29 07:57 UTC
OK this has hit the chattering technosphere
Lobste.rs - some bad takes on legal theory lobste.rs/s/brusu8/protestware_for_coding_agents
HN - submission from Ars Technica, original title “Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code”, editorialized to “Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output” - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319968
read comments at your own risk
My hot take: the clankers know there’s nothing legally they can do about this, and that they will actually have to read release notes going forward and doing actual work to avoid getting their precious vibecoding junked, and they’re MAD
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@ebu@awful.systems 2026-05-29 16:22
from the great minds at HN: Fighting in a war is morally ok though. This is war. war is when i pipe your scripts folder into my stochastic text machine which is hooked directly up to a root shell