alt Hacker NewsSame here. I got access to Mythos two months ago, it confronted me with decades of nasty bugs I wrote. This has been stressing me out a lot, caused sleep deprivation (the bugs follow me in my sleep, yes, really). All other progress is halted, I've been squashing bugs day and night. I see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Bottom line: it's a good thing. My software will be better after that. Even if it's currently not good for my ego (and my health). But I'm glad for all the tools that help me improve quality.
And sure, I can just ask LLMs to fix the bugs, which works well half of the time, and produces bad slop in the other half. This is where human expertise and judgement is still necessary to avoid letting our code bases drift into LLM spaghetti hell.
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> I've been squashing bugs day and night
> This has been stressing me out
> the bugs follow me in my sleep
Sounds like you need some vacation.
> Even if it's currently not good for my ego
If you don't mind answering, how come? Is it specifically that you dislike how abusable your code was, or something else?
My question is, did it provide POCs? I have had some security issues flagged that I tried my best to exploit, but failed miserably. Since I do not have any kind of privileged access the LLMs I use have been unwilling to actually prove that it can be exploited.
While I did fix most of the things because while they might not have been exploitable they were bugs waiting to happen, in all but one case I haven't been very impressed by any of the LARGE IMPORTANT SECURITY HOLES that were found.