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pizza234today at 9:20 AM0 repliesview on HN

> There is a finite number of rces that LLMs can find.

This is a factor in favor of stability/security of software, but there are many others against:

- software (code) changes all the time, so there are windows of opportunity during which a bug is exploitable; in addition to that, a bug may take a relatively long time to be fixed

- a model used for attack may be stronger than the model used for defense, both in terms of model quality and compute allocated

- with software complexity increasing (and team/companies behind projects getting bigger), the margin for mistakes grows thinner, and introducing misconfigurations or weaknesses becomes exponentially easier (with "exponentially", I mean literally, because the interdependence of the components, both technical and human)

And last but not least: in general, attackers are more skilled than defenders; in best case, defenders are well-trained. And the idea of having the population of potential skilled attackers growing is very unsettling.