alt Hacker NewsI have a theory (loosely held, it's just an idea, not a belief) that this could lead to something I call Evolutionary Architecture. That instead of waiting for vulnerabilities to be discovered in code, that systems could end up with code being changed and re-implemented by agents so fast that attacks aren't able to probe for attacks because they end up probing code that by the time the answer is come it, in production that code no longer exists because it was moved to another language or something. The change to prevent vulnerabilities isn't the reason for change, but the change has defensive side effects.
All of this may be slightly inspired by the Militech neural matrix in Cyberpunk 2077
I've been developing a weaker version of this line of thought for code reviews for large architectural features.
A big motivator of thinking architecture through really well is that although the software may work just fine now, a good architecture will make it easy to add a feature a year from now, whereas a bad architecture will necessitate significant rewriting.
But significant rewriting is cheap nowadays, so in code reviews I put a lot more weight on whether it works today, and a lot less weight on whether we'll need to change it when making a different change.
Entire classes of things like "should this be in this component or split out into its own" just don't matter anymore because no matter how tedious changing that might be once there's a ton of things depending on it, that's the kind of thing AI can do no problem.