Post by @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club

2026-02-25 06:21 UTC

You know that 19K line Python dictionary that does PII I mentioned a few days ago? Just found out the same repository has exactly the same information stored, character-for-character, but in a set of matching CSVs, and if both aren&#39;t present then the project doesn&#39;t run. No one has any explanation for why the CSVs are there. How is this even POSSIBLE.

Replies (5)

@davedave@aus.social 2026-02-25 06:32

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I can think of several ways that's possible. None of them are good, or sane.

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@ramblingsteve@floss.social 2026-02-25 08:06

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club so long as all their staff can write fizzbuzz in 1 line of code while inverting a binary tree it's all good :)

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@k1tteh@uwu.social 2026-02-25 08:46

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club you should offer that codebase to the museum of modern computing

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@benji_w@aus.social 2026-02-25 11:46

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club They're there for RAID-1 level redundancy, obviously.

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@bradheintz@mathstodon.xyz 2026-02-25 14:10

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Is there any chance this was generated by an LLM? That sounds like exactly the sort of result they commonly give: Code that builds and runs and may even pass tests but follows no rational or consistent architecture. What you describe is par for course with those tools if they aren't kept on a short leash.

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