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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by MetaWhirledPeas on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:03PM (#50370755)
> LLMs don't; everything gets added.

LLMs can run with whatever directive you give them. If the directive is lots of code that's what you get. But when everyone gets repeatedly burned by vulnerabilities the directive becomes building bullet-proof code. With the right prompting an LLM can be a lot more diligent about that than we ever could.

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by Brian_K_White on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:13PM (#50370870)
This is like saying humans just shouldn't gamble or drink or have sex with the wrong people.

It might be true but it's also a pointless statement that doesn't impact the problem, because it won't happen. And "it won't happen" isn't some unsupported prediction that no one can say. The aggregate behaviour of humans is a known thing, and it's not productive to the actual problem to pretend otherwise. It's only productive an individual looking for an easy excuse to avoid dealing with the problem.

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by tensor on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:42PM (#50374868)
Uh, I'm literally asking LLMs to shorten code daily. Sure not everyone will but I think the point is that LLMs likely do make it possible to write far more robust and secure software, including short code, if the user wants to.