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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

576 points · 408 comments · luispa

  1. intrepidsoldier · · focus · HN ↗
    Just the beginning. AI is going to expose how fragile the entire computing infrastructure in our world is.
    1. ankurdhama · · focus · HN ↗
      Does this also mean the code generated and reviewed by LLMs will not have such issues going forward?
      1. Gareth321 · · focus · HN ↗
        You're going to get a wide range of responses on this but given the improvement in these models in just one year, and the number of bugs they're detecting which humans could not, I suspect that even median vibe-coded software is going to surpass median human coded software soon - if it hasn't already.

        The important thing to remember here is there perfect isn't on the table. The benchmark is existing human-introduced bugs vs LLM-introduced bugs. Many developers have encountered odd bugs which a human would not have introduced, while forgetting about all the bugs caught which humans introduced. Or their opinion is formed by models from six months ago.

        1. abathologist · · focus · HN ↗
          How come all the vibe coded stuff I've tried is totally bug ridden and unmaintainable then?
          1. Gareth321 · · focus · HN ↗
            Mine isn’t. To point: we don’t really have a definition of vibe-coded anymore. All software has some degree of AI enhancement now. Is vibe-coded when it’s 60%? 80% 100%?

            Try out Opus 5.5 on high. It’s shockingly good. Of course if you’re trying to one-shot a sprawling application with load balanced distributed DBs, you’re going to have a bad time. For small, defined features, it’s pretty fucking great.

            1. abathologist · · focus · HN ↗
              The definition I use is shipping LLM generated code you don't understand

              We use LLMs extensively on the projects I work in. We don't "vibe code", and we understand every commit.

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