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Developers will not cease to exist. The developers of tomorrow will simply being doing things that developers today can’t possibly even imagine. Auditors thoug
by deadbabe 8mo ago
Developers will not cease to exist. The developers of tomorrow will simply being doing things that developers today can’t possibly even imagine.
Auditors though, they are cooked.
- viccis 8mo ago>Auditors though, they are cooked. I think you're massively underestimating the complexity and depth of a good security audit service.
- tptacek 8mo agoI don't.
- viccis 8mo agoGod bless you, the beautiful thing about computer security is that this attitude has kept us happily in business for many years.
- tptacek 8mo agoSay more? It's really hard to navigate the antecedents of this argument.
- viccis 8mo agoPeople who don't do intense security work for a living underestimate the complexity of it. This might find some vulnerabilities, but it's not really capable of producing new methods and attacks. What it replaces isn't a high quality human researcher; it replaces current static code review systems. If AI models never had stack smashing writeups in their corpus, they'd never be able to invent stack smashing.
- tptacek 8mo agoSo, by any reasonable measure, I've spent a career doing "intense security work", with a particular focus in vulnerability research, and I do not agree with this at all.
- viccis 8mo agoWhat evidence do you have? It sounds like you probably haven't been providing much value if an LLM can replace you.
- kypro 8mo agoDevelopers of tomorrow will be everyone with a computer in the same way everyone today is a calculator.
- baby 8mo agoDev and auditors are two sides of the same coin, if one exists the other does as well. Perhaps they will be the same person, but systems don’t exist without tradeoffs and security considerations.