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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by kragen on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:51PM (#50383588)
That sounds like a very reasonable thing to do, yes. If you ask Opus 5.5 to write you a dynamically typed interpreted language that can query a local SQL database, implicitly parse HTML form submissions, and be embedded in HTML templates interpreted by an Apache module, you'll probably have a usable alternative to PHP in 37 minutes. And if you ask it to do it in Rust with no unsafe, it won't have any memory error vulnerabilities.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by xscott on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:34PM (#50384125)
You could have a new web server and database too. Maybe a new one every other day so you aren't a stationary target.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by kragen on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:16PM (#50384564)
I suspect that a more effective mitigation would be to have an LLM read all your HTTP requests and the actions the web server proposes to take in response and give a Jev-like approve/disapprove decision.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by xscott on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:49PM (#50384948)
All good, but I suspect we're thinking about different aspects. If I understand correctly, you're pointing out that nobody is tied to legacy software any more - they can spend 37 minutes to re-implement from scratch in a safe(r) language.

My point is that everyone doing their own thing their own way means an attacker doesn't get the next thousand sites for free after finding a vulnerability in one site.

Having an LLM as sentry is a fun idea too.

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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by kragen on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:03PM (#50385112)
Right, I agree.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by fc417fc802 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:32PM (#50386606)
I assume that was sarcastic but I think it would actually work fairly well? At least if the ends could justify paying for that many tokens.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by xscott on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:10PM (#50386902)
No, I sincerely try to avoid sarcasm, and I try to remember to down vote it when I see it. It's tough to get tone across in a text forum though, so I understand the confusion.
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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by kragen on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:00PM (#50387627)
I didn't think it was sarcastic, but it's far enough outside the Overton window that I could see why someone would.
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