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killerstormtoday at 9:36 AM1 replyview on HN

A lot of things need to be rebuilt from ground up, and many devs would prefer convenience and tradition


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ryanschaefertoday at 11:00 AM

> many devs would prefer convenience and tradition

This is too reductive of the situation.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Except, in this case, unless you have someone tell you it’s broken you won’t even know you need to fix it.

And this is where asymmetry comes in to play. Attackers are free to test and break as much as they want as long as they are silent. Whereas maintainers don’t know if the fix an LLM proposes will actually address the issue or cause some regression elsewhere.

IMO, if Microsoft wants actually good PR around GitHub for once they would offer free LLM security audits on all actions for at least the X most popular repos…