alt Hacker NewsYou'd think at some point it'll be enough to tell the AI "ok, now do a thorough security audit, highlight all the potential issues, come up with a best practices design document, and fix all the vulnerabilities and bugs. Repeat until the codebase is secure and meets all the requisite protocol standards and industry best practices."
We're not there yet, but at some point, AI is gonna be able to blitz through things like that the way they blitz through making haikus or rewriting news articles. At some point AI will just be reliably competent.
Definitely not there yet. The dark factory pattern is terrifying, lol.
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jwpapi • yesterday at 10:04 PM
Honestly I’m not sure we’re not there yet, run this prompt as a ralph loop for 2 days on your codebase and see where you at...
That's definitely a pattern people are already starting to have good results from - using multiple "agents" (aka multiple system prompts) where one of them is a security reviewer that audits for problems and files issues for other coding agents to then fix.
I don't think this worked at all well six months ago. GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 might just be good enough for this pattern to start being effective.