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johannes1234321yesterday at 10:29 PM4 repliesview on HN

The question still is: will enough useful stuff be included, to make it worth to dig through the slop? And how to tune the prompt to get better results.


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simonwyesterday at 10:42 PM

Best way to figure that out is to try it and see what happens.

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bluGillyesterday at 10:46 PM

That depends on how the tool is used. People who ask for a security vulnerability get slop. People who asked for deeper analysis often get something useful - but it isn't always a vulnerability.

unethical_banyesterday at 11:53 PM

I assume it's just like asking for help refactoring, just targeting specific kinds of errors.

I ran a small python script that I made some years ago through an LLM recently and it pointed out several areas where the code would likely throw an error if certain inputs were received. Not security, but flaws nonetheless.

ronsoryesterday at 10:54 PM

You're either digging through slop or digging through your whole codebase anyway.