Comment by teravor
6 hours ago
mythos allowed mediocre people to get results by holding their hand through the process, or just ignoring their irrelevant input and knowing what to do.
if you throw millions of tokens at IDA Pro MCP with the right prompt lets just say security by obscurity fails miserably because there is no obscurity when the LLM chews through the decompilation.
It isn’t bad, it isn’t good. It’s just how the world looks now. All software is open source now, some of it is just more open, some of it is less.
"mediocre people"
I'm glad to see the mask is falling off the privileged caste.
Is there anything inherently wrong about open access to tools? (Apart from rent payments).
The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves?
And such people learnt everything from the beginning? From fire?
Where's the cut off point of where learning something for yourself becomes the signal for entrance to the enlightened caste?
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> mythos allowed mediocre people to get results by holding their hand through the process,
Yes, just like early cars allowed mediocre horse riders to get from A to B with dignity.
Or like my Japanese rice cooker allows a person like me, utterly shitty at preparing this, to eat some rice that is cooked to perfection.
Etc.
I mean, the calculator is my go to analogy I keep bringing up in this debate.
It lets someone with mediocre long division skills to just do the thing they need to do with fewer steps and less friction.
IDA itself is a tool that helps you decompile code without having to do a lot of things.
knowing long division does not help you make the calculator do division better.
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Should mediocre people be preforming heart surgery?
I'm sure many 'mediocre' people perform heart surgery. Only 100 years ago, the idea of a person without a certain surname or race, would've been a ghastly preposition, no?
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It depends. Mediocre doctor in a remote area with right tooling assistance as opposed to no one being available for someone who urgently needs one? Yeah this should be a thing. Should a software bro in NY perform it in dark alley despite having best doctors few blocks away? Maybe not…
Lots of mediocre people already are.
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>mythos allowed mediocre people to get results by holding their hand through the process
Isn't this what technology progress looks like? Industrial tools allowed mediocre people to improve their productivity by orders of magnitude which is how we managed(in the past) to build so many amazing things with less human toil and suffering than previous generations.
Progress isn't always welcome by the incumbent who have built their moats on hoarding knowledge over being adaptable
Not all of us think encouraging people to outsource their own thinking to proprietary models is actually "progress."
It seems like AI is really hurting the people who don't have a hoard of experience - the juniors and early mid-level tech people.
The incumbents with experience are doing amazing. PM's with Mythos aren't replacing the PE with 20 years of experiences lol.
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