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by MuteXR 87 days ago
You know that people can already write backdoored code, right?
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Yeah, and they can write code with vulnerabilities by accident. But this is a new class of problem, where a known trusted contributor can accidentally allow a vulnerability that was added on purpose by the tooling.
But now you have compromise _at scale_. Before poor plebs like us had to artisinally craft every back door. Now we have a technology to automate that mundane exploitation process! Win!
You still have a human who actually ends up reviewing the code, though. Now if the review was AI powered... (glances at openclaw)