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I don't think there's a way to make it secure while still permitting it unprompted external access Eg: Any web request is a security vulnerability, there's no way to do it if the w…

>So why are you pretending this is something new or novel? Because as the OP of this thread and LLM users are rediscovering, that understanding is the most critical part of softwar…

Its weird how absolutely desperate we are to avoid humans actually using their brains at any step of the coding process. I don't know if we just need to tell people that its fine t…

heaven forbid we use our meat to actually completely understand it in the first place

LLM speedups have always been predicated on not understanding the code they produce as well as if you wrote it yourself. Reviewing even well written code to understand it in depth,…

People have tried all kinds of techniques for VLIW, including techniques that are much better than a purpose built AI, AI isn't a magic silver bullet. Fundamentally there's no reas…

Most developers by any metric haven't hopped onto the full agentic AI bandwagon. People who want to stop understanding code will indeed largely lose their technical skills, but the…

This doesn't appear to relate to the conversation at all, because we aren't talking about generating entire products. Is this just generic AI advertising?

>This document imposes no requirements on the behavior of programs that contain undefined behavior That's saying that programs that exhibit undefined behaviour are not governed by …

Clang/LLVM at least treats this as UB, not as implementation defined behaviour however according to an LLVM dev

Its incredibly hard to get changes like this into the standard, because there's a core contingent of people who seem to feel that UB is part of C++'s identity, and then there's ver…

Clang is a target for the GSL though. How can MSVC's special powers prevent this from being exploitable UB in Clang/LLVM? This code boils down to static_cast (some_double); so noth…

Yeah Herb's 100% wrong here. Its common when people are downplaying the memory safety issues with C++ that they say things like this, but its completely incorrect. All invoked UB i…

I suspect the people advocating for this don't actually do this, its one of those things that you say because it sounds modern and up to date, and makes for a good sounding blogpos…

Matrix still doesn't have a client with built in push to talk as far as I'm aware. The relevant issue on the Element github has been sat there for 8 years now It does not seem like…

I feel like a lot of people literally do not understand what the purpose of software engineering is. It isn't to write code

Its not specifically established but its the only compatible ruling that the law can really make here. There is a lot of very similar precedence, there was a legaleagle on this whi…

Song lyrics have the strongest legal precedent is why, there was a recent court case requiring them to be taken out of the training data of an AI model

This has been a security vulnerability since day 1 with these models, yet collectively the people who use them just simply don't seem to care about the security implications. Its e…

For me there's two separate problems: 1. The plagiarism aspect, and that most of the training data was used without permission 2. I haven't found it terribly useful in my personal …

I've seen: 1. AI models frequently output large chunks of code which are plagiarised. In one specific case it was code for walking the stack, that was a clear mix of two original s…

Did... you read any of these? Fair use is a defence against copyright infringement. Ie you actively say that you *have* committed copyright infringement, but you're allowed to do i…

Under the law, machines are not able to create copyright, and basic human involvement is not enough to change this. Eg if you click a button saying "go", that won't create copyrigh…

I mean, its theoretically possible that a court might rule that if an LLM outputs an exact or lightly modified piece of copyrighted work, that it won't be copyright encumbered. We'…

Ok, but courts haven't made those rulings yet so good luck with that