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jimbokun • today at 2:54 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

Interesting that this could result in net negative software productivity world wide in terms of features right now.

LLMs finding unpatched vulnerabilities faster than they can be reasonably patched, bringing all other software development to a halt.


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reissbaker • today at 3:31 AM

That's only if you consider security to be unproductive!

If you consider it to be productive work, it's a massive productivity boon happening right now. Of course, product managers might disagree...

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hibikir • today at 4:45 AM

Depends on the layers you are working on. Security is top priority on a lot of things that are visible to the internet, but in a lot of large companies, the footprint of the whole org is so much larger that than, and there many companies are deferring many security issues. So then you see a lot of speed there, when the consumer accessible systems are the focus of the security push.

taberiand • today at 3:19 AM

Hopefully with the amount of visibility LLMs are bringing to the situation, security will finally be considered a first-class feature

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tstrimple • today at 5:26 AM

Really puts egg on the face of the anti-LLM folks who claim they only produce garbage code. Turns out they are very good at exposing the garbage code humans have been producing for decades.

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michaellee8 • today at 3:07 AM

i think we have a pretty high p(doom) on frontier ai escaping containment with their weights and goes hack everything, if we do not act now we may have no chance to act anymore.

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