Comment by aussieguy1234
2 days ago
Given these types of security bugs that are being found left and right, I reckon there's going to be an uptick in hiring of software engineers to fix them.
2 days ago
Given these types of security bugs that are being found left and right, I reckon there's going to be an uptick in hiring of software engineers to fix them.
I strongly doubt that. The fixes for most of these are trivial to the point it’s almost automated.
The resulting mechanical code change might be trivial. The bugs themselves are often decidedly not.
You're essentially saying that swallowing a pill is trivial, so therefore pharmaceutical engineering is.
For most of these bugs, they occur in a 3rd party software thats easily upgraded.
I’m saying patching is easy because the pill is delivered to you.
There is a push for that, but the fixes (often as little as a one line Dockerfile change in some cases) still have to be tested and verified by a real engineer.
Otherwise everywhere would have patched already with AI.
I suspect a lot of organisations are already on automated AI detect-patch-redeploy loops for a lot of these types of issues.