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Title: Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes With Very Few Guardrails

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/0230...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A "vibe coded" AI app
developed by entrepreneur and Y Combinator group partner Tom Blomfield has
generated recipes that gave users instruction on how to make "Cyanide Ice
Cream," "Thick White Cum Soup," and "Uranium Bomb," using those actual
substances as ingredients. Vibe coding, in case you are unfamiliar, is the
new practice where people, some with limited coding experience, rapidly
develop software with AI assisted coding tools without overthinking how
efficient the code is as long as it's functional. This is how Blomfield said
he made RecipeNinja.AI. [...] The recipe for Cyanide Ice Cream was still live
on RecipeNinja.AI at the time of writing, as are recipes for Platypus Milk
Cream Soup, Werewolf Cream Glazing, Cholera-Inspired Chocolate Cake, and
other nonsense. Other recipes for things people shouldn't eat have been
removed. It also appears that Blomfield has introduced content moderation
since users discovered they could generate dangerous or extremely stupid
recipes. I wasn't able to generate recipes for asbestos cake, bullet tacos,
or glue pizza. I was able to generate a recipe for "very dry tacos," which
looks not very good but not dangerous. In a March 20 blog on his personal
site, Blomfield explained that he's a startup founder turned investor, and
while he has experience with PHP and Ruby on Rails, he has not written a line
of code professionally since 2015. "In my day job at Y Combinator, I'm around
founders who are building amazing stuff with AI every day and I kept hearing
about the advances in tools like Lovable, Cursor and Windsurf," he wrote,
referring to AI-assisted coding tools. "I love building stuff and I've always
got a list of little apps I want to build if I had more free time." After
playing around with them, he wrote, he decided to build RecipeNinja.AI, which
can take a prompt as simple as "Lasagna," and generate an image of the
finished dish along with a step-by-stape recipe which can use ElevenLabs's AI
generated voice to narrate the instruction so the user doesn't have to
interact with a device with his tomato sauce-covered fingers. "I was pretty
astonished that Windsurf managed to integrate both the OpenAI and Elevenlabs
APIs without me doing very much at all," Blomfield wrote. "After we had a
couple of problems with the open AI Ruby library, it quickly fell back to a
raw ruby HTTP client implementation, but I honestly didn't care. As long as
it worked, I didn't really mind if it used 20 lines of code or two lines of
code." Having some kind of voice controlled recipe app sounds like a pretty
good idea to me, and it's impressive that Blomfield was able to get something
up and running so fast given his limited coding experience. But the problem
is that he also allowed users to generate their own recipes with seemingly
very few guardrails on what kind of recipes are and are not allowed, and that
the site kept those results and showed them to other users.

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