alt Hacker NewsIt's very exciting to see the work on combining AI models with static analysis, test generation, formal proof, and refactoring. All of these suggests we might see high assurance (EAL6+) developed rapidly in the future. At least for combinations of well-understood concepts.
You don't mention generating code from scratch; is that on purpose? Perhaps a developer could add many constraints that would have been too expensive previously - e.g., code in Spark, use only these ___ system calls, never use this riskier capability, use only these ___ libraries, etc.
The LLM might take longer than otherwise, but still be fast enough. The new technology, like every useful one, changes the tradeoff equation.