Definitely share your initial concern. Without strong review processes to ensure that every line of code follows the intent of the human developer, there’s no way of knowing what exactly is in there and the implications for the human users. And I’m not just talking about bugs.
They say it’s reviewed, but the temptation to blindly trust is there. In this case, developer appears to have taken some care.
The code was written by Cursor and Claude, but reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks by me. I created comparison documents, went through all queries multiple times and reviewed the logic over and over again. I also did load tests and manual regression tests, which took lots of evenings.
Let us hope so. Handle with care to ensure responsibility is not offloaded to a machine instead of a person.
The size of that changeset means that it’s inherently unreviewable.
The commit history is something I’ve seen only in the PRs that even the most dysfunctional companies would demand a rewrite for.
Also, 2-3 weeks review? PostgreSQL support could be added in that time without the need for a damn „vibe check”. Hell, it would probably take less time than that.
To be fair they would have needed to spend time testing the manual implementation as well.
The problem I see mainly is that even if this rolls out perfectly, the erratic and changing nature if llms still make it pointless as a proof of concept. Next time Claude might fuck up in a fringe way that's not covered by unit tests and is missed by manual tests.
On the other hand I guess I've been guilty myself on numerous occasions to implement fringe bugs into production code, but at least I learn from it.
Yeah, it could easily have added a couple of lines of code that sends everything to Northern Korean hackers because it found that in a bunch of repositories or just logging passwords to public logs or other things an experienced developer would never do. "AI" only replicates what it sees most often and as more spam and junk repos are added to its training data because "AI" companies are too concerned with profit to teach it properly, it could do tons of random stuff. It's like training a developer by giving them random examples from the internet rather than specific ones. Of course they pick up bad habits. Even if it "works" it is almost never efficient or secure.
I'll embrace the inevitable fork.
If you use ntfy mainly as a Unified Push distributor on Android, then I highly recommend switching to a XMPP client that can do the same.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| MQTT | Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging |
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I just set up a ntfy server for Unified Push earlier this week to use with Matrix. Now I have to turn around and immediately replace it...
This doesn't make me uneasy. It makes me resentful, a little angry, and a lot tired. Thanks for bringing it to attention, I will make sure that nothing of that project or from that author will ever cross my ecosystem again.
I'm so tired of that.
I'm using it for scripts notifications + unifiedpush. I don't know where to start to find the fitting alternative.
The maintainer you and said that they tirelessly tested, reviewed and verified changes over the course of 3 weeks to make sure that things were running and operating correctly.
This is how it should be done. It's not like they're vibe coding this.
Fuck, I love ntfy, it's one of the best self hosted push notification systems I've used. It has been flawless so far.
Don't like this.
What's the difference between ntfy (android app) and ntfy.sh?
Ntfy.sh is the hosted version. Hosted by the author. Ntfy (android, ios) is the app that you use as a client.
I've never used ntfy.sh
I've only used Ntfy app for Universal Push that some apps need, and they recommend ntfy. Does this affect the app then? Ah, if so, what alternative can I use for just that purpose?
Well, Telegram does the something for free.
Telegram does the thing for your sweet juicy data
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