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Won’t this be solved fairly soon when package managers have automatic scanning of updates by AIs that are superhumanly good at spotting malicious code?


Not sure if this is sarcastic, but this is a terrible idea. Best case scenario, it relaxes human vigilance and turns the success of malicious code attacks into a dice roll. More likely is that obfuscation techniques designed to fool LLMs will open the flood gates for malicious code.


Define "malicious code"

Now define "unintended side effect"

Now add "no one is maintaining it anymore"[0]

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[0] https://xkcd.com/2347/




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