alt Hacker NewsMany devoted fans of AI like comparing LLMs to compilers for higher-level programming languages.
They argue that just as programmers once wrote ASM and C, the arrival of Java and Python meant you no longer had to be a neckbearded autistic kid to write software that doesn't leak memory or segfault.
Arguments like this show me you’ve never done software engineering seriously.
Despite compilers (written by some of the smartest engineers on Earth) trying hard to prevent developers from writing shitty software, those new age "engineers" still managed to ship software that crashes, leaks, and generally sucks.
I'm not saying this email client is not secure (although I'd bet 5$, it is). But it seems beyond silly to assume software is automatically safe just because a new piece of tech can potentially find vulnerabilities. Intent still matters. And the 99% would never have the intent to write secure software.
> I'm not saying this email client is not secure (although I'd bet 5$, it is). But it seems beyond silly to assume software is automatically safe just because a new piece of tech can potentially find vulnerabilities. Intent still matters. And the 99% would never have the intent to write secure software.
Hard agree, especially the apparent 99% of AI boosters on HN who seem to basically only care about shipping arbitrary products as fast as possible and skipping the whole middle part where someone sweaty person is grinding through the details intimately, all day, and while they should be sleeping.
At my last place, it was a battle to convince the narcissistic idiot CTO and even one of our senior engineers (both in age and experience) that it was important to encrypt customer data before it transited through third-party cloud service providers. People don't—and aren't incentivized—to give the slightest shit about quality, security, you name it.