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That's kinda wrong though. I've seen llm's write pretty good code, in some cases even doing something clever I hadn't thought of.

You should treat it as any junior though, and read the code changes and give feedback if needed.

I've used Claude code to fix some bugs and add some new features to some of my old, small programs and websites. Not things I can't do myself, but things I can't be arsed to sit down and actually do.

It's actually gone really well, with clean and solid code. easily readable, correct, with error handling and even comments explaining things. It even took a gui stream processing program I had and wrote a server / webapp with the same functionality, and was able to extend it with a few new features I've been thinking to add.

These are not complex things, but a few of them were 20+ files big, and it manage to not only navigate the code, but understand it well enough to add features with the changes touching multiple files (model, logic, view layer for example, or refactor a too big class and update all references to use the new classes).

So it's absolutely useful and capable of writing good code.

"Better shoot some blacks to avenge it"

I've found it useful to write test units once you'we written one or two, write specific functions and small scripts. For example some time ago I needed a script that found a machine's public ip, then post that to an mqtt topic along with timestamp, with config abstracted out in a file.

Now there's nothing difficult with this, but just looking up what libraries to use and their syntax takes some time, along with actually writing the code. Also, since it's so straight forward, it's pretty boring. ChatGPT wrote it in under two minutes, working perfectly on first try.

It's also been helpful with bash scripts, powershell scripts and ansible playbooks. Things I don't really remember the syntax on between use, and which are a bit arcane / exotic. It's just a nice helper to have for the boring and simple things that still need to be done.

Just can’t waste time on trying to make it do anything complicated because that never goes well.

Yeah, that's a waste of time. However, it can knock out simple code you can easily write yourself, but is boring to write and take time out of working on the real problems.

When you cosplay as judge dredd, it's exactly how it works

We don’t even know who killed the guy yet

It doesn't matter at this point, the current narrative has already picked up too much steam

uh.. So that's it, the apache server version? That's all? I looked at the critical cve's for that version, and honestly, they'd require a pretty specific setup to be abused if I understood them correctly. Most of them were various DoS with no information disclosure, and the only spooky one I saw require the server to have scripts the server is allowed to execute, but outside of the normal url mapping. Which then would have to be disclosing some info or doing something spooky. The rest seem to require the attacker to control the app behind the apache2 server.

Would be better to upgrade, of course, but it looks nowhere near as bad as the blog author makes it sound.

Damage to company or rich people's property? Why, that sounds like terrorism

This case also highlights how the use of artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially contribute to the development of preventable adverse health outcomes. Based on the timeline of this case, it appears that the patient either consulted ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 when considering how he might remove chloride from this diet. Unfortunately, we do not have access to his ChatGPT conversation log and we will never be able to know with certainty what exactly the output he received was, since individual responses are unique and build from previous inputs.

However, when we asked ChatGPT 3.5 what chloride can be replaced with, we also produced a response that included bromide. Though the reply stated that context matters, it did not provide a specific health warning, nor did it inquire about why we wanted to know, as we presume a medical professional would do.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

Management: "But the coin miners are the only ones maintaining the server, if it wasn't for that it would have died long time ago"

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3990472/china-takes-edge-computing-to-orbit-with-first-space-based-processing-network.html

So someone thinks it's not entirely stupid