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		croes 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare It’s the same problem as with self driving cars. Self driving cars maybe be better than the average driver but worse than the top drivers. For security code it’s the same.

lxgr 8 months ago [–]

Regardless of whether that comparison is valid: In a world where the average driver is average, that honestly doesn't sound too bad.

croes 8 months ago | [–]

For cars yes, but for security it would mean rolling your own crypto.

There is a reason why the average programmer should use established libraries for such cases.

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