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thatsabadlook • today at 10:07 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

AI is actually a big reason why there are so many vulnerabilities over the past year and a half. People don't even know what their code bases look like anymore. It's really bad so sayeth my friends doing consulting.

A lot of companies cyber security posture is asking Claude to "find all security issues make no mistakes".


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lxgr • today at 10:15 AM

That's certainly one reason, but frontier LLMs are also really good at finding existing vulnerabilities in completely human-authored codebases.

dannyw • today at 10:51 AM

That’s not backed by data at all. We’re discovering more existing vulnerabilities.

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synarchefriend • today at 10:38 AM

I would expect code written by the latest frontier models with a "find all security issues make no mistakes" pass to be more secure than average human code written in the pre-AI era (not a high bar).

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