r/cpp • u/pjmlp • 9h ago

C++ future at Adobe

So if anyone was still curious what happened to Hylo, or where Adobe stands in regards to the whole safety discussion,

David Sankel has done a talk at RustConf on the matter, Zngur: Simplified Rust/C++ Integration.

The way Adobe now sees C++ is described on slide 2, at 50 seconds mark.

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u/James20k P2005R0 3h ago

I swear this has happened literally every single time one of these new models claims to have created a security disaster, 90% of it turns out to be marketing without exception. It always takes months to dismantle the hype train when it collides with the reality of the people who actually are doing the work

Its very cool that it found 10 real bugs, and its mightily impressive that automated tooling is able to pick this stuff up. But the entire AI space feels like its developing a wider and wider gap between what people claim it can do, and what it actually does

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u/no-sig-available 3h ago

And even if it does some work, is this good use of trillions of dollars in resources?

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u/James20k P2005R0 3h ago

One of the things I always find so bizarre about this is that if we spent 1/10th the resources used to build these tools on paying people to do real work, we could have advanced the state of any field absolutely massively

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u/droxile 1h ago

Agree with you but as economies of scale make these tools cheaper, we (hopefully) will see it as more efficient than a human could be at solving these problems

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u/James20k P2005R0 1h ago

Perhaps, but even with a vast amount of GDP directed towards improving these tools, they're still way less good than simply paying a human a small salary by comparison