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crummyyesterday at 10:53 PM5 repliesview on HN

Curious if people think LLMs will lead to more secure or less secure software in five years.


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int32_64yesterday at 10:57 PM

Both. The skilled will use them to find problems, the unskilled will use them to slopcode insecure software the skilled will have to fix.

stavrosyesterday at 11:07 PM

That depends on which side has more money.

UltraSanetoday at 12:11 AM

In 5 years attackers have an advantage but in the long run I think more secure if developers use LLMs on software to find and fix all of the worse remotely exploitable bugs before release. LLMs are going to force devs to be much more security conscious.

bawolffyesterday at 11:38 PM

One of the biggest issues in security historically imo is vendors who think, well nobody will ever find this bug so we can deprioritize fixing it. LLMs will prevent vendors lying to themselves which will lead to more secure software.