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by codingdave 43 days ago
> once they are built-in to all devices and performant enough in future years

That is a hefty set of assumptions you are making there. There is no guarantee such a reality will ever exist, and decent odds against it.

At the same time, if you consider it to be a virus or malware when an LLM generates and runs code that harms a product or device... we are already there. Agentic AI with too much system access is already a thing. Just look at the anecdotes of "My AI deleted by database!" and other such stories.