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Re: The Big List Of Naughty Strings

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: The Big List Of Naughty Strings
Date 2025-09-04 01:21 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 01:19:26 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

> The “walks into a bar” reference is to this
> <http://www.sempf.net/post/On-Testing1>:
>
>     QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders
>     999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a
>     sfdeljknesv.
>
> Because that’s what testing is all about...

Why did that suddenly come to mind? Because I just read about this
incident where someone got the AI at a fast-food drive-through to
accept an order for 18,000 cups of water
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/someone-ordered-18000-cups-of-water-at-an-ai-drive-thru-now-fast-food-chains-are-reconsidering/>.

Debugging actual human-written code is hard enough; how do you debug
an AI?

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