[FRIAM] Emojis in the source code

[glen]

Yeah, there's a similar point to be made against the Suits when they assert that it's unprofessional to use emojis. I mean, I almost never feel like I understand what they mean. But such fuzziness occurs with words anyway. So emojis are yet another token; and they will be part of anyone with a large vocabulary.

What I thought was more interesting was the relationship between tech and money. My recent shallow exploration of frederic jameson was in response to what people tend to call "culture war issues", often in a dismissive way. Jameson argues that cultural change emerges from economic change (antagonistic modes of production). One might argue that cryptocurrency provides things like shadow quantitative easing <https://www.compactmag.com/article/money-by-vile-means/>. This challenges sovereign currencies. And although the crypto fanbois might claim it also challenges the traditional (capitalist) accumulation of wealth, I'd argue it does not.

Sure, some billionaire tool like Musk converts USD to SOL, then some techie (part of the "professional-managerial class" (PMC) mode of production) can use AI to design a wallet drainer. But such fuzziness at the border of the wealthy class versus the non-wealthy PMC members doesn't challenge the wealthy's status. Writ large, anyone in the PMC already benefits from things like access to the internet, computers, and the knowledge for how to use them. So really wallet drainers are money flow within that wealth class, within a mode, not conflict between modes.

That's why the article interests me. But the larger context is: if you're currently on the margins of the PMC and you're *not* investing in learning "AI", then you (or your children['s children]) are more likely to leave the PMC at some point ... even if you're a millionaire.

On 8/1/25 9:30 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I sort of understand why they do that, beyond self-promotion.
> It is a genuine advocacy of pure vibe coding:  In this mode, one doesn't even look at the generated code and so it is important to have very rich diagnostics and to restate what the user apparently wants.
> Every possible tripwire is needed to detect trouble early.  The LLMs are trained to use annotations to not only restate the apparent intention, but even to print it out when the program runs.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHWFF_pnqDk&ab_channel=Anthropic
> 
> It can be removed easily enough with a few prompts.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 7:21 AM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] Emojis in the source code
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> Threat actor uses AI to create a better crypto wallet drainer https://getsafety.com/blog-posts/threat-actor-uses-ai-to-create-a-better-crypto-wallet-drainer
> 
>> Clue that AI wrote this #1: Emojis in the source code Clue that AI
>> wrote this #2: What's up with all the console.log messages?
>> Clue that AI wrote this #3: Excessive comments Clue that AI wrote this
>> #4: The markdown Clue that AI wrote this #5: Calling things "Enhanced"
> 


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