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Ekarostoday at 1:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Because after proper verification you very much aren't at JIT territory. Take the network stack. From my memories a proper commercial test suit from say Defensics is from a few thousand to tens of thousand cases. For each of Ethernet, IP, TCP and UDP. Any decent coverage however fast will take some time. Most likely lot more than you want with just in time...


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mihaelmtoday at 1:57 PM

Yeah, the cost of running the test suite every time an agent generates code JIT would be the killer for running it at scale. I didn't even get into practicality of that approach too much because the gist of it for me was the question of agents writing code JIT having security benefits (?) - the verification thing is a sidetrack.

Certainly, adding agentic JIT code invites more complexity to properly do it, so what are the benefits that call for introducing it.