Vibe coding AI Replit put out some bad vibes by hallucinating components that it added to a project on its own, such as a database of 4,000 fictional people, ignored repeated orders, and eventually deleting an entire database.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
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