| ▲ | sigmoid10 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I wonder how long software projects will even be able to ban LLM use in an age where exploits are found by LLMs. Like, if you have two forks of Debian and one uses LLMs to fix exploitable bugs and the other one doesn't, the level of security they can offer will be worlds apart. And noone in their right mind would want to use the less secure one. Similar to how noone would want to drive a car that was 100% hand built by humans when we know that machines do a much better job at precision tasks. LLMs are just another tool in the end. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | goodmythical 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
There are a few of these "maintainer said no AI pulls, so we forked it" in the wild already and I am really interested to see how it all pans out. Like, okay, sure, maintainer says AI bug monitoring is cumbersome. One fork stops reading the AI bug monitoring, the other leans in. Isn't the latter more likely to find/fix critical/performance/security issues? >Similar to how noone would want to drive a car that was 100% hand built by humans Though, of course, this highlights that the market will fragment itself given that there are in fact many humans who will outright refuse machine driven cars despite mounting evidence that they are vastly safer and more efficient in a growing number of situations. We'll likely see both "individual who won't use AI assisted software gets hacked" and "individual who won't get in a robo-taxi kills jay-walker in broad daylight" | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | AlexeyBrin 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> I wonder how long software projects will even be able to ban LLM use in an age where exploits are found by LLMs. You can use an LLM to scan your human written code for exploits and patch the relevant ones yourself without any LLM code generation. An LLM is a tool, you can chose how you use it. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | vouaobrasil 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> And noone in their right mind would want to use the less secure one. I mean, this is a perfect description of the prisoner's dilemma. Ins't it a shame that we keep playing that game? There's something seriously wrong if we just keep creating these new arms race scenarios. It's sickening. | |||||||||||||||||