Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

(droppedasbaby.com)

32 points | by offbyone42 12 hours ago

5 comments

  • hnlmorg 1 hour ago
    My first ever fork bomb was in the 90s, running Microsoft own example code for OLE (or was it COM?).

    That was a great early lesson to never trust code you read online. Even if it is from Microsoft’s own developer portal.

  • Jeremy1026 33 minutes ago
    What was the purpose of having Claude Code spin up two more instances of Claude Code though? What was the intended outcome there?
  • ihaveajob 2 hours ago
    Congratulations! Mine was intentional, back in college, where all PCs had open telnet in order to facilitate cooperation. We discovered it was easy to seize someone's computer for a while, and then watch them look around for the culprit, which we thought was hilarious. Boy were we annoying.
    • offbyone42 39 minutes ago
      How did you not get caught??!?
  • siruwastaken 1 hour ago
    The realization that even badly running code is still faster than the average human is rather terrifying. Lucky you that it hogs so much RAM.
  • robshippr 1 hour ago
    [dead]