Comment by sureglymop
4 days ago
What makes someone a script kiddie or not a script kiddie?
Imo this differentiation is totally pointless now. It gives everyone with access to AI the ability to use it as intended but also otherwise.
But that is true for the defensive side also.
I'm pretty sure the difference is, by definition, whether they're just using tools other people built or they actually understand things and can do it themselves. The script kiddie can be incredibly dangerous if the tool they grabbed off the shelf works.
a script kiddie of the vibe coding present could very well start modifying code without ever reading it when that wasnt true in the past
Yes. Script kiddy capabilities have increased, but the classification still works.
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Do you think any programmer really understands how their program works end-to-end? At some abstraction layer, we're all clueless. There are many layers between what you type into the text editor and the actual CPU ticks that make your program work. I bet nobody fully understands the whole stack.
Now that that text editor accepts English, we're all calling each other names, etc.
I didn't say that Real Hackers™ understood every single thing perfectly from editor to electrons. You've made up a strawman and then beaten it.
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Used to be, knowing a ret from a nop (90) meant something. If you can just load up a model and say "hack teh NSA.gov" while not actually knowing anything about even DNS, what are we even doing?
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While most don't, there are developers who actually do understand systems from end to end. Most developers are terrible developers, compared to the really good ones.
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> What makes someone a script kiddie or not a script kiddie?
The way I see it, a script kiddie is someone who buy weapons with the intention to cause harm. They don't know or care how the weapon works, as it's just a tool for their malicious plan.
A non-script kiddie would be someone who build weapons.
If you assume weapons have recreational purposes, the builder/non script-kiddie is less likely to be malicious as they love the craft of building weapons. For example recreating historical weapons, or just being nerdy about machinery of a gun works.
A builder with malicious intent as first priority can exist, they are more likely to just be interested in building.
So basically, nerds are perceived to be more ethical than non nerds.
This is exact same difference as between junior and senior engineer.
The premise now is that everyone and your mom can vibe code next unicorn during a lunch break using the latest llms, but the difference between a rookie and a seasoned programmer is that the later can navigate the model in much more efficient way, understand the code that has been written, and notice hallucinations on the spot.
Completely agree. This is how I feel towards the OpenAI hacking of hugging face. Even if it was script kiddie stuff now anyone can automate that with ease. It certainly cuts both ways and people who are still ai skeptics need to wake up to that. You’re going to need these systems to defend yourself
Scraipt kiddie, script kiddlmie.
Needs some work!
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