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Terr_today at 5:25 PM0 repliesview on HN

It seems like we've got chaos-machines that are just orderly enough to to try all sorts of branching script-kiddie / guess-n-check / research-paper-suggestions in a tireless and parallel way, and it's finding all the things we kinda knew were always potential issues but it was never economical to do things differently.

I'm scared that the "solution" will be constantly the same tools in reverse as an army of junior devs doing counter-hacks, at the expense of changing something more fundamental about how we make systems and what constitutes "good enough." (Kind of like if fuzz-testing was the be-all-end-all of memory safety.)