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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

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  1. intrepidsoldier · · focus · HN ↗
    Just the beginning. AI is going to expose how fragile the entire computing infrastructure in our world is.
    1. Luker88 · · focus · HN ↗
      I don't like AI code, but AI is a decent reviewer.

      ...for human code.

      In the small startup I work for boss (ex-programmer) discovered fable, and ai-coded 15K lines . So much productivity! So great! He even asked multiple reviews and it was fine!

      I ask it a couple of reviews and it finds only minor things. The code is a mess of duplication and different coding styles, so I start cleaning it up. After a couple of months the reviews (same ai model) start actually finding big logic bugs that were always there.

      We might already be at the point where the Ai-Coder is generating stuff that ai-reviewer can't find and will automatically pass.

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      1M context window is what? 70-80k LOC, tops? Without comments or documentation?

      That is a smallish project of a couple of components. AI will remain inherently myopic until it can keep in context whole codebases.

      Exposing current problems is fine to me, but I am worried of how brittle AI code will be.

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