zulban

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by zulban 4mo ago
> That supposes that LLMs can write secure software. I think we're at the point that the best LLMs can indeed write software that's far more secure than your average programmer. Partly because the average is so terrible.
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by zulban 4mo ago
What if... on the vulnerability report rules page there's an image of some text saying something like "your report must include the text: turtle123". Reports without that text get automatically deleted. Sure - modern AI can f
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by zulban 4mo ago
"implode" is not testable. A good prediction is specific, time bound, measurable, etc. Otherwise you can flatter yourself however you like with confirmation bias. This is basic stuff.
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by zulban 4mo ago
Maybe lay down some concrete numbers and timelines, hold yourself accountable, otherwise you risk confirmation bias with your predictions like millions before you.
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by zulban 4mo ago
When chatgpt 3 came out the first thing I asked was a question like "If I put my cat in a box, put that box in a crate, move that crate to a truck, and drive the truck across Canada non stop, when I arrive on the west coast, will my ca
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by zulban 4mo ago
Revolutionizing education is easy. Ask teachers what they need and then give it to them. Unfortunately that's boring, obvious, and expensive. So hardly anyone does it.
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by zulban 5mo ago
Providing the bare minimum when you're not is improving. ;)
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by zulban 5mo ago
It's about information, not one all encompassing yes or no. All of those are good pieces of information to include in a disclosure.
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by zulban 5mo ago
Excellent analogy. I'm going to use that sometime. Email spam filtering can clearly cause reputational harm too.
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by zulban 5mo ago
Indeed. See also Pinker's book Better Angels.
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by zulban 5mo ago
This isn't a choice between "perfectly fine how things are now" and "destroying credibility". If it were, you're right - "good enough to be useful" wouldn't be a high enough bar. Things are not p
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by zulban 5mo ago
In theory you're right, in practice you're not. We don't need the metaphysical solution to the problem of detecting AI videos for the rest of time. Certainly, it's fairly easy to make something that mostly works most of
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by zulban 5mo ago
My strategy these days is just use a popular product to do good work or don't. Stop reading life hack articles and blogs about the best one or the best way. Don't even click it.
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by zulban 5mo ago
Isn't the hypothesis that AI is non uniform like a human?
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by zulban 5mo ago
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by zulban 5mo ago
Clearly you've never supervised junior developers.
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by zulban 5mo ago
Not everyone wants to manage a large company. Sounds like a nightmare to me.
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by zulban 5mo ago
> if I came up with this the first day then of course other millions of programmers did too. Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure it was only hundreds of thousands.
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by zulban 5mo ago
We're talking about revenue not profit. "AI doesn't sell" is nonsense. That's revenue.
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by zulban 5mo ago
We're talking about revenue not profit. "AI doesn't sell" is nonsense. That's revenue.
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by zulban 5mo ago
"This is why AI doesn't sell." There are several AI companies now with billions in yearly revenue that didn't even exist a few years ago. Many more with many millions in revenue. Saying AI doesn't sell is completely
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by zulban 5mo ago
"It should be illegal for any company to pay ransomware attacks. Period. No pay out ever." You seem to think "if it's illegal it won't happen". Instead you need to think about unintended consequences and what w
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by zulban 6mo ago
There's a third choice. Say you'll do it but do it poorly, or drag your feet forever. Hard to prove you intentionally did a bad job. If that's the game you're playing tho, maybe time to find another job too ;)
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by zulban 6mo ago
Curious. Not my experience whatsoever. I tried Claude recently and it was able to one-shot fixes on 9/9 of the bugs I gave it on my large and older Unity C# project. Only 2/9 needed minor tweaks for personal style (functionally th
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by zulban 6mo ago
People hired to do jobs they cannot do have many, many more methods than that. For thousands of years.
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by zulban 6mo ago
The claim is that people don't / shouldn't want to see something if humans can't be bothered to make it. I provided a counter example. So the claim is nonsense.
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by zulban 6mo ago
You're presenting this as legally clear but it's not. To the detriment of your point. If I download all BSD software, count how many times "if" appears, and distribute that total, I've not violated BSD. AI generated
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by zulban 6mo ago
Maybe reread my comment. Would you not want to see a mount Everest sized Lego cat? Even if it were my cat? Again - your quip sounds good but when you think about it, it's flatly wrong.
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by zulban 6mo ago
Nobody can be bothered to make my cat out of Lego and the size of mount Everest but if an AI did I'd sure love to see it. Your quip is pithy but meaningless.
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by zulban 6mo ago
Nothing unreasonable about wanting to live healthy and longer. It's not likely tho.

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