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  The Big List Of Naughty Strings Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-04 01:19 +0000
    Re: The Big List Of Naughty Strings Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-04 01:21 +0000

#16862 — The Big List Of Naughty Strings

    The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings
    which have a high probability of causing issues when used as
    user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated
    and manual QA testing; useful for whenever your QA engineer walks
    into a bar.

<https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings>

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...

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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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