A big factor the author ignored, is this potential “strategy” he speculates no longer works in a multi-polar world, especially when there is a thing called China. It is not exactly true if reopening Hormuz is simply a will of US or not.
The damage of loosing even 1 carrier is much much higher than 20 years ago because of this. But US force itself to play this unfavorable game that its enemies can not even dream about.
Code review is the real deal for these models. This area seems largely underappreciated to me. Especially for things like C++, where static analysis tools have traditionally generated too many false positives to be useful, the LLMs seem especially good. I'm no black hat but have found similarly old bugs at my own place. Even if shit is hallucinated half the time, it still pays off when it finds that really nasty bug.
Instead, people seem to be infatuated with vibe coding technical debt at scale.
>Instead, people seem to be infatuated with vibe coding technical debt at scale.
Don't blame them. That is what AI marketing pushes. And people are sheep to marketing..
I understand why AI companies don't want to promote it. Because they understand that the LCD/Majority of their client base won't see code review as a critical part of their business. If LLMs are marketed as best suited for code review, then they probably cannot justify the investments that they are getting...
Real deal in this case or not does not necessarily mean the Claude code usage is a positive net gain to the software security overall. In fact it is likely the opposite.
It will hurt some CC heavy user’s feeling but that’s a different thing.
I am always skeptical about making anything useful "free". Because unless there is no cost associated with that, "free" is a fake term, which only means someone else absorbs the cost. There are cases which makes sense, but not sure "civic tech" is one of them.
Another dev who doesn’t show respect to what has been done and expect a particular language will do wonders for him. Also I don’t see this is much better in term of readability.
Where do you see the lack of respect? The author wanted to learn how gzip works and chose to implement it in a language they like to do so. As a learning tool, not because the world needs another gzip decompressor.
#define MAXBITS 15
#define MAXLCODES 286
#define MAXDCODES 30
#define MAXCODES
#define FIXLCODES 288
struct state
local int bits(struct state *s, int need)
local int stored(struct state *s)
struct huffman
local int decode(...)
local int construct(...)
local int codes(...)
local int fixed(...)
local int dynamic(...)
int puff(...)
Yeah, just because you can grab from your refrigerator a piece of raw meat and put it in a cup of milk in 10 secs and it tastes bad doesn’t mean the refrigerator should be blamed because of this.
Yeah, but if the refrigerator is built in a way that makes it very easy to grab some refrigerant when you want to pour yourself a glass of milk (to the point that one has to be careful and skilled to safely drink milk), maybe we should get a new refrigerator.
Why would someone want to learn Unix Programming using OCAML? Not a smart choice. Also this does not look easier to read than a shell script either.
let rec copy_rec source dest =
let infos = lstat source in
match infos.st_kind with
| S_REG ->
file_copy source dest;
set_infos dest infos
| S_LNK ->
let link = readlink source in
symlink link dest
| S_DIR ->
mkdir dest 0o200;
Misc.iter_dir
(fun file ->
if file <> Filename.current_dir_name
&& file <> Filename.parent_dir_name
then
copy_rec
(Filename.concat source file)
(Filename.concat dest file))
source;
set_infos dest infos
| _ ->
prerr_endline ("Can't cope with special file " ^ source)
Even agree with most of the stuff he said, however in real life, you won't be able to win a fight using these arguments. You can only create a environment to execute these strategies first to get a good product and them use them as a propaganda afterwards.
The damage of loosing even 1 carrier is much much higher than 20 years ago because of this. But US force itself to play this unfavorable game that its enemies can not even dream about.
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