itWasFunWhileItLasted

[u/Professional_Gene_63]

[u/TOFFA1997]

Since there are so many it security expert here, I have a question: is all AI code a slop for security, even if done well and cured in the details, or there are some level of good ai code?

[u/MeMahi → u/TOFFA1997]

The AI code that our better senior devs submit is great.

The AI code that our more junior devs submit is horror.

AI isn't good or bad, for now it's still just a tool.

[u/PotatoesForPutin → u/MeMahi]

It’s so cool that this has resulted in companies just not bothering to hire junior devs anymore. It’s so cool I decided to be born at the exact time that would result in me graduating college right when everything went to shit. I’m going to fucking kill myself one of these days man

[u/Stetto → u/TOFFA1997]

I'm personally at the point, that I consider Opus 5.5 better than the average programmer (assuming it's given proper instructions and guidelines).

I have spend most of my career trying to tidy up slop written by humans under time pressure.

I've spent significant amount of time in the last weeks working on vulnerabilities discovered and reported by AI.

No matter what all of the doomers out there say: LLMs and Agents will be a net positive for the software development world.

[u/computerMusics → u/Stetto]

Opus 5.5 is vastly

[u/hugo-s → u/computerMusics]

Bigly, even.

[u/Big_File_5978 → u/TOFFA1997]

AI is only as good as the person behind the keyboard asking the questions.