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Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub by pjc50 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:44AM (#39548603)
I'd expect it to accidentally invent vulnerabilities of its own as well as pasting existing ones from the input set. AI provides no guarantees at all about correctness.
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Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub by dartos on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:12AM (#39550389)
You can use grammars to guarantee correct syntax, at least.
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Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub by pfarrell on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:06AM (#39551188)
Makes me think about Dijkstra being horrified to learn that the US was sending astronauts into space using unproven computer code [0]. Eventually, we'll have programmers trusting the AI generated code as much as we trust compiler generated code. Sometimes I think this will be the evolution of programming (like binary to assembler to compiled to interpreted to generated)... Other times I think about how we've grown used to buggier and buggier code and yet we press on.

0: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/translating-dijakstra.html

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