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GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding (grapheneos.social)
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GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you're coming from or why you're so incredibly angry with us. It's not justified and does not make sense.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Supposedly wonderful “human artisanal code” has plenty of fuckery.

These are supply chain attacks and in the case of xz utils, the attacker had gone to extreme lenghts to hide the attack from a well-meaning, good-hearthed but overworked and burnt out solo maintainer.

To compare this to bugs that people unwittingly introduce in normal human-written code is not sincere.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Very well. Here -

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571

https://www.finnie.org/2024/05/13/i-discovered-the-debian-openssl-bug/

That's the thing about "pure human slop": it doesn't need to be malicious to be catastrophic.

The second link is particularly salient - kills the "supply chain attacks are special" argument because it is precisely about "unwitting bugs in normal human-written code just happen"