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I think you exceeded the daily post allowance.
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Most likely an unethical AI Bot gobbling up all the computer processing resources so the JSON was not able to be properly processed by the server software installed by AR. It is now possible that a person without any programming experience can use AI to build themselves a bot and cause havoc across the WWW.
This is the future of the internet experience unless sites are willing to pay out big bucks to Cloudflare and the like. Best long term plan is to buy shares of internet infrastructure and website security companies. As Ray has stated before, almost all this is preventable, but too much money is being made by too many so internet security protocols are rarely adopted.
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I'll match you.Originally posted by Donw View Post
The thing that is so crazy about all of this "vibe-coding" is that in some sense we decided as a society that programmers and developers are, to a decent extent, obsolete overnight.
I'm certainly looking at this through rose-colored glasses, but I miss the tech optimism of the 1990s and 2000s. Computers were getting better and improving our lives.....the internet had amazing promise and was improving out lives. Sure, there were significant missteps -- Microsoft's monopoly with IE, the dot-com bubble -- but for the most part, it was a net societal good.
:::waves hands at everything:: Much of this doesn't seem to be that.
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It’s kind of feels like the note on a time card that says..”see me before you punch in”…😜😜Comment
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Maybe "Operator Error?"Comment
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You are all on it!
Ok. So the error message is due to an error page being returned instead of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). That looks like this: {"key":"value","key2":"value"}. The error returned HTML or Text and not JSON. So the JSON parser fails and shows that popup. Sounds confusing. Just keep in mind the error popup is generated by JavaScript and that runs in your browser. It gets the error from the server, does not understand the message, then shows you the JSON error.
How to fix? This is almost always a cache issue. Corrupted or outdated cache. So CRTL+F5 (or CMS+R) to hard refresh.
I will dig into the logs etc. See if I can spot something.
As for AI and "vibe-coding", this is a joke whose punchline has not been reached. It will, at some point. I have used AI to code (Claude). It saves me time in building code, but I do not just use what it produces. Just hoping all is well. AI is not intelligent, I wish everyone would call them their correct name: LLM (large language model) or neural network.
I use an LLM to generate the first draft of code. I go over the code, validate that it works the way I want, and I have to refactor it all to my coding style. The mainstream coding styles that all LLM's train on (and produce) makes my eyes bleed. So I refactor it to my preferred readable style. I have to, as many times the code is just stupid. It works, usually in the most bloated, complex, and overdone way.
I had Claude build me a PHP class for an anti-spam plugin I am working on. A gibberish detector. As some web form spammers just add gibberish text and a link. I refactored the result down to about 2/3's the original code. Clean and efficient. So why use Claude at all? It does aggregate concepts and ideas that would take me days to figure out. Functions is created to check for: Vowel Consonant Ratio, Consonant Clusters, Dictionary Word Ratio, Key Mash, and Entropy. Key mash is just that, when you just mash on the keyboard at random, however, it is not random, it is always a pattern: asdf, kljh, qwer, zxcv.
LLM's are great for saving time. Generating first draft (code, doc, text, whatever), but a human with real knowledge and understanding is required to validate the code (doc, text, etc).
I am not down on trained neural network base systems, they do fantastic things when purpose designed. Like in medicine, biology, and science in general.Comment
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