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This whole software bug spiel is to convince everyone that it is unsafe to code without using an LLM. Effectively forcing companies to use LLMs.
I've said this a million times. The llms are not better, than us they are infinatly faster. It's like putting 1000 engineers full time on looking for vulnerabilities for 10 years. Sure you can do that. Or pay for the tokens instead and do the same effort overnight.
It it is unsafe to code, full stop.
The things we're expecting our code to handle, with the lack of formal verification testing we're expecting our code to ship with, there's no such thing as safe. It took 50 years to "build the stack" to where we're at, and we did it fast and cheap. There's so many bugs hiding in the lasagna it's amazing it doesn't eat itself.
If you re-build your system from first principles, open source silicon with peer review and constant scrutiny, then the BIOS, then the OS, then the application compilers, and the libraries, all open AND reviewed by multiple concerned parties with formal demonstration of correctness all the way up - the entrenched bug filled lasagna stack owners will smother you, they can't withstand that kind of competition on an open playing field, your project will die of financial starvation, regulation, buyouts and treachery.
All the shortcut technical debt is coming due, especially now that there's a tool able to undertake mass analysis with fairly general rules.
It's getting bad out there, and it's not visible on the surface but a tsunami of bug reports and patches has been sweeping the internet and drowning anything unable to swim.
For anything that sinks underwater, metaphorically, they're getting grabbed by automated sharks that are now actively on the attack. If you're not rapidly fixing everything and monitoring everything closely you're probably being eaten alive without knowing.
My approach: I don't expose anything (that can't handle it) to the internet. So so many things are "out there" that don't need to be, shouldn't be...
Didn't they use LLMs to code Win11 though?
Bragging about how product is at doing something is the easiest way to advertise product. No conspiracy theories needed.
They want you to use their LLM to screen your code for bugs. When you do that, you see how surprisingly well it works now and that leads to you wanting to also use it for generating code. That is when you realize that the 20 bucks starter subscription isn't enough to actually use it professionally... which means, you upgrade and they get moar money.