Is the CEO responsible for a company's financial performance? Do they review every line of code the company writes?
It is more irresponsible to spend the time reviewing all of the code rather than spending that time on things with bigger levers for satisfying your customers.
yes but if a dev pushes a line of code that wipes the accounts of millions of users at a fintech, the dev will get fired but the CEO will get sued into oblivion.
if the agent isn't responsible, you HAVE to be, cause angry people wont listen to "it's no ones fault your money is gone"
I'd trust that dude over professional leetcoders any day.
But you're right that trust is a complicated thing and often misplaced. I think as an industry we're always reevaluating our relationship with OSS, and I'm sure LLMs will affect this relationship in some way. It's too early to tell.
There's a reputational filtering that happens when using dependencies. Stars, downloads, last release, who the developer is, etc.
Yeah we get supply chain attacks (like the axios thing today) with dependencies, but on the whole I think this is much safer than YOLO git-push-force-origin-main-ing some vibe-coded trash that nobody has ever run before.
I also think this isn't really true for the FAANGs, who ostensibly vendor and heavily review many of their dependencies because of the potential impacts they face from them being wrong. For us small potatoes I think "reviewing the code in your repository" is a common sense quality check.
Is this a serious question? If you are handling sensitive information how do you confirm your application is secure and won't leak or expose information to people who shouldn't know it?
Exactly.... -> Unit tests. Integration tests. UI tests. This is how code should be verified no matter the author. Just today I told my team we should not be reading every line of LLM code. Understand the pattern. Read the interesting / complex parts. Read the tests.
But unit and integration tests generally only catch the things you can think of. That leaves a lot of unexplored space in which things can go wrong.
Separately, but related - if you offload writing of the tests and writing of the code, how does anybody know what they have other than green tests and coverage numbers?
I have been seeing this problem building over the last year. LLM generated logic being tested by massive LLM generated tests.
Everyone just goes overboard with the tests since you can easily just tell the LLM to expand on the suite. So you end up with a massive test suite that looks very thorough and is less likely to be scrutinized.
gnu sort can spill to disk. it has a --buffer-size option if you want to manually control the RAM buffer size, and a --temporary-directory option for instructing it where to spill data to disk during sort if need be.
you're responsible for understanding the ramifications of things you do if a reasonable person should recognize those ramifications.
any reasonable person would have known they were interrupting emergency services. not a lawyer, but surely something akin to gross negligence would apply?
and they were doing that indiscriminate jamming as they drove around for two years.
if op is trying to cast someone making up rules in their head and going vigilante to enforce it on everyone else out of some sense of self-righteous indignation as some sort of heroic action the government is unfairly attacking, I doubt they're going to find many friendly to their perspective.
>Ironically, being anti-science is pro-science. Skepticism of institutions and consensus is the scientific method
skepticism is necessary, but not sufficient.
if they merely nay-say institutions and then go with their gut, it's certainly not.
only when someone attempts to rationally disprove a position, offering alternate testable theories and actually performing those tests is science done.
if you suspect an institution is wrong, that's fine, but it's just a hunch until someone does a test.
Selling prisoners as underpaid slave labor means everyone else now has to compete against companies using that slave labor. It's essentially cutting us twice. We both pay to house and feed the employees/contractors of the company benefiting who then undercuts us by not bothering to pay them.
Prisons should not be allowed to be a profit center. The ramifications of doing so create gross incentives.
>Prisons should not be allowed to be a profit center.
That ship sailed post American Civil-War. We've made it part of our culture. Every prison charges their inmates to be there. Per Diems. It used to be tax payers but... they found out they could double dip.
This is the kind of thing it's relatively viable to address legislatively, and which would be well within the overton window if it were given more attention.
I assumed they meant using the LLM to extract the citations and then use external tooling to lookup and grab the original paper, at least verifying that it exists, has relevant title, summary and that the authors are correctly cited.
the idea that you should just blindly trust code you are responsible for without bothering to review it is ludicrous.
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