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Same as watching someone in school try to translate between French and English by a dictionary one word at a time ignoring context...

But frankly security theatre was always going to descend into this with a thousand wannabe l33ts targeting big projects with LLMs to be "that guy" who found some "bug" and "saved the world".

Shellshock showed how bad a large part of the industry is. It was not a bug. "Fixing" it caused a lot of old tried and tested solutions to break, but hey, we as an industry need to protect against the lowest common denominator who refuse to learn better...



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