Comment by zx8080
12 hours ago
> ”hallucination” is what we call it when LLMs get code wrong; “engineering” is what we call it when people do.
They've lost me right there at the top of the article. This sounds like a pure hatred and ignorance to what the actual software engineering is.
This article is about a vulnerability most people aren't aware of in the VSCode remote connection protocol that those same people believe is helping them "sandbox" their LLM agent development....
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Look, I have no idea what the tool I’m using does, how it works, or what problems it solves. All I know is it doesn’t work as I want it to.
Back in 2008 I was working in a team that was trying to reduce build breaks in a company. It was rudimentary implementation of current CI systems meant to avoid breaking the nightly builds. It just ran a `make build` on a clean machine and let you see the output when it was done. One guy opened a “sever security vulnerability” because in his patch he replaced build target with the equivalent of a `curl | bash` and proclaimed that he hacked the build system. “You should verify what the patch is doing before running it” he said.