alt Hacker NewsCan you expand on what you find to be 'bad advice'?
The author uses an LLM to find bugs and then throw away the fix and instead write the code he would have written anyway. This seems like a rather conservative application of LLMs. Using the 'shooting someone in the foot' analogy - this article is an illustration of professional and responsible firearm handling.
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lisbbb • yesterday at 3:48 AM
Honestly, it read more like attention seeking. He "live coded" his work, by which I believe he means he streamed everything he was doing while working. It just seems so much more like a performance and building a brand than anything else. I guess that's why I'm just a nobody.
Layman in cryptotography (that's 99% of us at least) may be encouraged to deploy LLM generated crypto implementations, without understanding the crypto