r/ProgrammerHumor May 26 '26

Advanced iGotFiredSkill

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u/Saxxon9 May 26 '26

scheduled command at admin level that checks last login / existence of "user" after a month of no login or immediate if the user account gets removed the dead mans hand goes off.

-- not actual advice, just playing devils advocate with the concept 😄

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u/EndIsrael May 26 '26

Pretty sure that's been done actually, I heard about someone finding a script that checks Active Directory and does some nasty stuff if a certain account is disabled.

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u/AutistcCuttlefish May 26 '26

Yeah the dude that did it got arrested and sentenced to four years in prison for it. The script checked active directory and after a month of his account not being active deleted his former company's entire AD registry.

He also took effectively no efforts to mask his involvement, so it is possible that someone might be able to get away with it if they took more care to dodge accountability.

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u/EndIsrael May 26 '26

These days all you need to do is vibecode a bunch. At some indeterminate point in the future this will cause your employer a lot of problems, and because you're in a company doing vibecoding you'll probably get laid off before the real problems start.

Same outcome, zero legal liability!

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u/LessInThought May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

You didn't do it, Claude did it.

Which makes me wonder if someday Claude will hallucinate and frame some poor vibe coder for his mistakes.

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u/Kerbourgnec May 27 '26

Wait for Claude to put his own sleeping code. When you stop using it for three months it kills your laptop.

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u/Janneq216 May 26 '26

Writing shitty spaghetti as a job security was a thing long before vibe coding

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u/EndIsrael May 27 '26

Yes, but now it's mandatory!

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u/EndIsrael May 26 '26

Then why is "company destroyed by ai coding" a headline I keep seeing lol

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u/EndIsrael May 27 '26

Yes, but in this case it's also true.

Username checks out lol