D and AI / dub registry and AI

[monkyyy]

On Sunday, 22 February 2026 at 22:39:39 UTC, Julian Fondren wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 February 2026 at 22:31:05 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> outside ai; I unironically wrote this code. If you care about 
>> the safety of my usage of std.process I would need a better 
>> api.
>
> If the AI had used appropriately strong words, you would've 
> already asked it for a replacement. My initial all-caps 
> statement had DO THIS INSTEAD. SEE? IT'S EASY ENOUGH.
>
> Lukewarm code review is actually really bad.
>
> ```d
> import std.process : execute;
> import std.stdio : writeln;
>
> // misleading variable name!
> string exe(string[] s) => execute(s).output;
>
> void main(string[] args) {
>     exe(["curl", args[1], "--output", args[2]]).writeln;
> }
> ```

The safety failure, if I were to believe this to be one, would 
need to construct a command without spaces as its being run thru 
the "query format" with a prefix and the query format of googles 
font api doesnt have spaces functional bash commands usually do; 
I could imagine maybe doing something with a semi-colon and then 
turning on some deamon. But its not that simple. Similarly the 
output file is in an extremely specific place, I dont believe you 
could output elsewhere.

and the ai isnt even looking at the user controllable exe, there 
is one here: 
https://github.com/crazymonkyyy/Google-Fonts/blob/7aa2b3c0238d7c56f95546642cdb5601926c5ee9/source/googlefonts.d#L33

The line the ai was looking at is controlled by googles severs. 
And its like curl, theres some curl functions in the std, either 
they should work here cleanly or complain up the chain that 
constructing a bash command was simpler.

Maybe atila makes this kind of mistakes, but I think the ai is 
failing here; from hyper-safetyism there better criticisms to 
make.