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g-technologytoday at 3:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Like saying putting paint on a brush and wiping it on paper is the easy part of painting.

Even with coding agents, there is still a need to understand what it’s doing, how it will interact with other systems, where bugs or edge cases will show up and many other aspects that become security risks when ignored by someone that YOLO’s their vibe coded app into production


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jama211today at 4:11 AM

There’s a need for something to understand those things, but from a user perspective it doesn’t matter if that’s a human or an LLM.

Besides, loads of software that’s human written has people maintaining it that don’t understand what it’s doing or how it interacts with other systems or where bugs or edge cases will show up etc etc too. In fact I’d say most software is like this.

LLM’s probably make less security holes than humans at this point.