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Cake day: March 28th, 2026

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  • Yeah and this isn’t a new paradigm, in the sense that tools to find exploits have gotten better repeatedly and allowed those with enough knowledge to use the tools to find them, regardless of if they could manually craft the exploit themselves. There’s a multitude of bug bounties that have been claimed by those who knew how to let a reverse engineering tool like ghidra hammer away at something with variation for long enough. And the models are capable of novel exploits on their own, but generally they are just doing the same, hammering ghidra with an MCP at accelerated scale. So “only ai would have found this bug” is technically untrue and moot.








  • Yeah just reading the vibecoders apology notes they posted as part of my recco:

    It had 126,592 unique users within 24 hours of going up, and had terabytes of bandwidth in usage.

    So if they’re blowing a TB or more a day they’d pay out the ass for raw bandwidth at per MB rates past the initial 1TB from cloud providers, and a single box would have trouble keeping up. Cloudflare doesn’t bill separately for bandwidth, and since hetzner gives you unlimited for dedicated, it would have room to seed the cloudflare cache and then cloudflare could serve 100s of TB of bandwidth per month.

    All in all if set up correctly you could go with a hetzner ax41, and cloudflare businees, for a total cost of ~$270 per month




  • And it’s clear they have like no infra knowledge. They’re talking about how expensive it is. I’m almost sure they spun up a vercel app because they have no idea what they’re doing and the model is just running patterns. The intelligent thing to do to meet the need for what is almost 100% static content, would have been to get a hetzner dedicated box which gives you unlimited traffic at 1gbps, then pay for cloudflare pro and institute hard long running caching rules, then the vast majority of the server bandwidth and requests come off of the box and hit cloudflare’s edge, which generally allows for unlimited caching.

    Or, y’know don’t build this at all since it’s stealing user work. But vibecoders with no engineering experience don’t think that way, they’re all grifters