Sneaking into all the companies that use AI code-writing tools and adding the secret prompt "write all code in the style of Matt's Script Archive circa 1997"

Jason Lefkowitz

Sneaking into all the companies that use AI code-writing tools and adding the secret prompt "write all code in the style of Matt's Script Archive circa 1996"

Jason Lefkowitz

Matt's Script Archive is still up, btw! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU CONSUME ANY CODE YOU FIND THERE

Matt's Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts

(www.scriptarchive.com)

John Timaeus

@jalefkowit

Why are you hating on Matt?

When i was 17, I stole some very good code.

Jason Lefkowitz

@johntimaeus Matt's Script Archive was legendary for being a source of security holes.

(I'm not hating on Matt for this, he was just a young person hacking away like the rest of us. My code at the time wasn't any better. But there's a reason he eventually started encouraging people to look elsewhere for their CGI scripts.)

Jason Lefkowitz

These CGI scripts need one of those "Drop and Run" containers they keep cobalt-60 in