Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

(droppedasbaby.com)

32 points | by offbyone42 12 hours ago

4 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 19 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.

      • 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.