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dylan604today at 2:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why would you have vulns if you vibe coded it in a weekend? Just tell it to not have any security vulnerabilities. Boom!


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8notetoday at 3:03 AM

you are less likely to have the same vulnerabilities as everyone else though, so unless somebody is targeting you, those vulnerabilities might not matter all that much

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t2r3121today at 2:34 AM

I mean... you can literally do that now. You can set up a loop to iteratively pentest, review and patch a codebase (with human supervision as you prefer) and it'll find and fix more vulnerabilities in a day than a pentest team used to find in a quarter, for a tiny fraction of the price.

This isn't a joke, this is now part of my pre-launch SOP. I even have it tracking everything so I can log stuff to fix vs. known shippables vs intentional design/false positives vs. upstream stuff which doesn't have a fix available yet, and keep track of which builds have the fixes. Almost entirely automated, I mostly review the findings and do some categorization/enrichment during the pentest review stage, and do a human code review pass as patches are submitted.

Stuff that used to take me multiple hours to write a fix for and then weeks to get code reviewed and deployed now get done in minutes.

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