Is fancy code completion really worth it ?

Of credible AI horror stories I think this is about as bad as it gets !

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researchers-uncover-critical-ai-ide-flaws-exposing-developers-to-data-theft-and-rce

I'm sticking with the "legacy" Keil IDE for C coding on ARM - it may be a little slower but at least I'm fairly sure that nothing gets into my code that I didn't put there !

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balajivan1995 1 month ago in reply to cstanton +4

cstanton said: Remote code execution and data theft, my favourite combination! Technically, you don't even need AI for that. Installing extensions from VS code marketplace is enough. Threat Actors Keep…
Jan Cumps 1 month ago in reply to michaelkellett +2
cstanton 1 month ago +1

Remote code execution and data theft, my favourite combination! Isn't this effectively why people are warned to avoid 'ai powered browsers' too? It appears difficult to do appropriate safeguards on these…

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metaprog 10 days ago

AI is great. Just always use the local models, they are more than powerful enough. Do not forget to use tools - give LLMs an access to LSP (clangd is ok), to a sandbox with simulation and tests, etc.
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DAB 8 days ago in reply to metaprog

Unless you can check each path, you still never know what the AI is doing or what issues generate the answers.

Risk Analysis 101, if you cannot verify the results, you do not trust them. Ever!
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metaprog 7 days ago in reply to DAB

It's no different from human-written code though. And yes, you absolutely can check every path in the generated code, this is what formal verification is for.
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metaprog 7 days ago in reply to DAB

It's no different from human-written code though. And yes, you absolutely can check every path in the generated code, this is what formal verification is for.
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