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1. intrepidsoldier · 1790914300 · focus · HN ↗

   Just the beginning. AI is going to expose how fragile the entire computing infrastructure in our world is.

   1. flohofwoe · 1790934118 · focus · HN ↗

      No, it will be a tsunami of new discoveries in old code bases at first, but that will settle down as those old bugs are fixed. It's been like this with every new code analysis tool (the wave may be exceptionally high this time though).

      1. thewizzardofnl · 1790939767 · focus · HN ↗

         There is a difference here. The "new coding analysis tool" that you use for the analogy here is getting better every few weeks with the release of new models.

         It is plausible to assume that, for instance, a Linux kernel that was hardened for CVEs that Sonnet 3.5 could detect is not hardened for bugs that Sonnet 4.5, 5.5, Opus, Fable, and models in 2027 can and will be able to detect.

         Hence, it is rather a constant catch-up game until the LLM improvements might hit a ceiling and won't get any better in this regard.

         1. flohofwoe · 1790942314 · focus · HN ↗

            I expect that the incremental model improvements will become smaller and smaller until they run into the same diminishing returns effect like all other new technologies (FWIW I've not beeen seeing a lot of difference between the latest Opus and Fable models for the stuff I'm doing, so I just stick to Opus for most things. There's a noticeable difference between Sonnet and Opus though).

            I'm not ready to take any bets when exactly the curve will be flat though ;) (e.g. in a just couple of months or a couple of years)

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