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Comment by geysersam | Hacker News Reader

It's a joke :) using this for anything real would be a criminal offence

It is written in a humorous style, but I don't take it as a joke. How is this fundamentally different than GPT code completion, other than it's data instead of code?

I suspect our intuition tells us code will be verified first by a programmer, then by the language parser, whereas data is likely to be manipulated without human scrutiny.

Does anyone seriously believe that this will forever be the case?

You CAN'T close pandora's box, but you CAN make jokes about pandora's box.

"but I don't take it as a joke"

That's a problem, because it that is what it is.

> Hopefully you can see this is not meant to be serious. Contributions to make it serious aren't really the idea. Contributions to make it sillier or more audacious are the idea. Silly examples are also welcome.

Read the readme...

The joke is that this is fundamentally the same as GPT code completion, yet people uses that to create production code.

I don't know, it seems like criminal offenses are in vogue these days...

Python monkeys will use this unironically.

> Python monkeys

First it was against Perl developers (well I actually also knew a few C programmers who looked down on "C++ lamers" but not sure if it was widespread), then PHP, then JS and apparently now Python. I think we should stop feeding the stereotypes.

Seems like a great way to generate _initial_ testing sets, actually.

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