AI is the empowerment of "I can do X better then people who's entire careers are built around X" attitudes

[nullpo@masto.hackers.town]

AI is the empowerment of "I can do X better then people who's entire careers are built around X" attitudes

[troed@swecyb.com]

@nullpo Or, hear me out, it's "I can do 80% of the boring work quickly and then focus on the fun and complicated parts".

I'm way better than the LLM at coding. It's just a thousand times faster at parts of it so why wouldn't I use it.

(I've had this argument before. At that time it was whether to be lazy and compile high level languages instead of writing everything in assembler)

[kallisti@infosec.exchange]

@troed @nullpo

An important difference is that abstract programming languages are deterministic, whereas LLMs are not.

So you either spend a lot of time proofreading code nobody can explain to you, with potentially gaslighting comments, or your software gets 0wned a year later or doesn't even run in the first place.

If that's an improvement to your previous workflow, so be it.

[troed@swecyb.com]

@kallisti

Are you trying to personsplain software development and/or cybersecurity to me?

That's ... futile

@nullpo

[kallisti@infosec.exchange]

@troed @nullpo

"Personsplain", that's a new one.

And the topic of my toot was neither of these two, it was LLMs

[troed@swecyb.com]

@kallisti

No, you're trying to splain me - who just wrote what my experiences (actual ones, not gut feelings) that LLMs are quite useful for ~80% of the work - that the code is not possible to understand.

I'm one of the old greybeards in both software dev and cybersec. When I state that they're useful they ... are.

@nullpo

[kallisti@infosec.exchange]

@troed @nullpo

Sure...

Care to share next week's Powerball numbers while you're at it?

[troed@swecyb.com]

@kallisti

It's obvious that you have absolutely no experience of your own here - yet you try to *splain to someone who has.

Good work. Just useless.

@nullpo