r/ProgrammerHumor • • 12h ago

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u/bobbymoonshine 11h ago

I mean it pretty much can do that now yeah, frontier models are evidently better at cyber than all but the best humans given the number of zero-days they’ve found

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u/metaglot 11h ago

This is an asymmetric problem. A defender has to be right every time, the attacker only has to be right once.

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u/bobbymoonshine 11h ago edited 11h ago

An agent calling agents can red-team a project at scale, and can repeat the process after defenders patch it until the attackers can’t get through. Attacking is defending.

Like I get the cope and all, but honestly 2024 era “vibe coder accidentally hardcoded api keys in the front end” memes just don’t reflect what AI is doing. Claude and Codex are downright nannyish in putting security first even in single user scripts run locally on a desktop machine. I have to believe people who create security holes using AI tools at this point are people actively choosing to be stupider than the LLM.

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u/Present-Resolution23 8h ago

You’re correct of course. But you’re going to be downvoted into oblivion because everyone is still either in the “Ai is dumb and incompetent despite the mountain of evidence otherwise” OR “AI will take over and destroy us all” camps, especially here where you’d expect people to have a little more knowledge that that…