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no, it's not. it's a tool in a zero sum game. a competitive imbalance. an exclusive moat. it's not improving anything, it's shifting power.

• warkdarrior 5mo ago
  As long as it shifts the zero-sum game in the favor of the defender, it is improving things.
  • HDBaseT 5mo ago
    In a technical sense, I assume the defender means cybersecurity companies, open source developers, etc? In a physical sense, Anthropic is giving access to who we believe are the "defenders", aka the United States DoD and Israel.
  • bixxie09 5mo ago
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• Salgat 5mo ago
  I disagree. Assuming code complexity is roughly fixed, more sophisticated code analysis will result in a smaller surface area for bugs. Bugs will still be found, but there will be less bugs to be found and less opportunities to exploit.
  • wslh 5mo ago
    I'd expect the bigger shift to be toward secure-by-construction building blocks: less custom code that needs to be audited from scratch, and more hardened or verified components where common bug classes are already designed out.
    • Salgat 5mo ago
      A similar concept is used in Rust, where code that needs unsafe sections is generally done in very isolated and very heavily scrutinized modules.