Q: If you want a resolution, why not just pay the money demanded online?
A: We are completely willing to sit down and figure out a fair, reality-based way to ensure this grandfather is made whole. However, there is a fundamental difference between a good-faith resolution and giving in to a coordinated, viral extortion campaign. We will not reward individuals who use fake delivery uniforms, forged signatures, staged police encounters, and residential harassment to manufacture a storyline for profit. We want to help the family; we will not reward a toxic online circus.
Honestly heartless behavior to treat someone trying to get money for a cancer treatment. I hope they go under.
Even not a cancer treatment. Even if the original seller was an uber wealthy and healthy individual, if they can't get what's legally theirs without as little as "I want it back" (contract permitting, which I think here it does), that's a problem.
Nice reusable libraries are still a core part of most AI projects, but honestly I think it's not a terrible approach with all the updating dependency malware issues with stuff like NPM.
> I think it's not a terrible approach with all the updating dependency malware issues with stuff like NPM
I think in this instance, the only thing worse than a zero day in your dependency tree, is a zero day you don't know your LLM vendored directly into your codebase...
Personally I feel a vulnerability in local code (unshared ai slop) is much less likely to be exploited, than for say a npm package update that will pwn you as soon as it loads up.
Claude is notorious in my experience to lie directly to your face (even if its baffling) instead of using the web tool. I'll never prompt it without saying 'use web tool' Its ridiculous.
Something about a scheduling/productivity app (one of the most common vibe-coded projects people make) being the subject of this is funny to me. I wonder how many tokens have been wasted making apps like this, let alone time.
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Q: If you want a resolution, why not just pay the money demanded online?
A: We are completely willing to sit down and figure out a fair, reality-based way to ensure this grandfather is made whole. However, there is a fundamental difference between a good-faith resolution and giving in to a coordinated, viral extortion campaign. We will not reward individuals who use fake delivery uniforms, forged signatures, staged police encounters, and residential harassment to manufacture a storyline for profit. We want to help the family; we will not reward a toxic online circus.
Honestly heartless behavior to treat someone trying to get money for a cancer treatment. I hope they go under.
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