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by lordswork 324 days ago
The database was synthetic and vibe coded itself:

>he said that the AI made up entire user profiles. "No one in this database of 4,000 people existed," he said.

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If it was synthetic then all this talk about it dropping the production database was purely clickbait, since there was no "production".
That's not how I interpreted this sentence. I think after the database was deleted, the LLM Agent would still return correct looking data from the database operation even though the database was empty. Maybe I misinterpreted it myself however.

> Replit had been "covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, [...]"

How much energy and water gets wasted everyday for this kind of bs?