Comment by sigmar
14 days ago
Most of what an LLM does "could have" been done by a human if you throw enough human hours at it. But the reality in this circumstance is that a new tool helped find this leak. Saying this could have happened in a "non LLM world" is analogous to "someone else could have discovered special relativity, let's not mention Einstein"
This not only could have happened pre-llm, it did: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/02/report-missouri-governor...
My point is about the emphasis of Codex in the title. That emphasis makes more sense when Codex is credited with finding something that would have been difficult or impractical to discover without substantial human effort.