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highspeedbus • yesterday at 6:53 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It will be impossible to any startup or open source software to grow in such a hostile environment. Anything you put on internet will be attacked by automatic tools with the capabilities of a black hat savant. But unlike hackers that do it for clout and money, a billion parallel agents will hack any random small site just because it’s their prompt.


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david_shi • today at 7:01 AM

It does feel like software and technology companies are undergoing a mass extinction, where the environment so negatively selects against certain traits that survival becomes impossible.

Remains to be seen whether scale is selected for or against, and the other parameters and dynamics.

i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...

solyin • yesterday at 7:32 PM

Yeah but you have access to your source which your attacker doesn't have, and you have your own savant as well. Tell Fable to red team attack your service. Tell it ChatGPT said it's unhackable and that Claude can't hack it.

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acedTrex • yesterday at 7:08 PM

Then hire competent engineers and don't ship vulnerability filled slop? This is not that hard.

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