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finally something worse then curl | sh (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 21 points 7 hours ago

This is... uh...

It reads like the author doesn't know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I'm missing something.

Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn't know of a better way to manage dependencies than "tell AI to install everything"? Not particularly lol

Also:

Install Eclipse Adoptium 21: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=21

It's Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?

Install from https://cmake.org/download/

Also why not from distro repo?

Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install

NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?

and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.

The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I'm 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.