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hunter

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11. If an AI can do it, is it really anything new?

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:39 PM

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What kind of future do we have to look forward to if everything is just an increasingly baroque and less structurally sound rehashing of old stuff? That's the path to idiocracy.

Any day now somebody is going to use this technology inappropriately with catastrophic results. Bad things have already happened and it's possible the worst of them are being covered up for fear of bringing this trillion dollar house of cards all down.

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How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts -- Brian Krebs [View all] erronis Monday OP

The tech nerd side of me goes WOW about what all AI can do now AZJonnie Monday #1

I've been programming since the early 1960s and still continue. I'm ambivalent about what's happening. erronis Monday #2

"The human is still needed to understand the problem at a high level and give prompts to the AI" AZJonnie Monday #3

The AI models still hallucinate. highplainsdem Monday #7

True, but it remains to be seen whether there will still be any jobs for human coding grunts in a year or two AZJonnie Monday #9

See replies 4 and 5. highplainsdem Monday #10

Not terribly secure code. I've posted a number of threads about this. The most recent: highplainsdem Monday #4

And using AI dumbs down developers pretty quickly: highplainsdem Monday #5

Not just developers. Here's a well-written piece about what it does to students in school. erronis Monday #6

Thanks for that link! I've posted some threads here warning about AI's potential to dumb people down highplainsdem Monday #8

If an AI can do it, is it really anything new? hunter Monday #11