The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source The I in LLM stands for intelligence (News)
Jan 8, 2024
Frustration brews as Daniel Stenberg critiques AI tools in security bug detection, emphasizing the need for human oversight. Brian Birtles shares bizarre web development beliefs that engineers hold, highlighted by a chaotic npm prank. Rob Pike offers insights into the successes and failures of the Go programming language. Meanwhile, Gavin Howard challenges the notion that all code is technical debt, insisting it's time to rethink our approaches to tech debt, suggesting some problems might be due to malpractice rather than mere financial issues.
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Curl and AI
- Daniel Stenberg, Curl's creator, expresses frustration with current AI tools for finding security bugs.
- He shares examples of their ineffectiveness in Curl's development.
Web Dev Surprises
- Brian Birtles, after leaving Mozilla and returning to web development, found web development harder than expected.
- He was also surprised by some web developers' unusual beliefs about browsers.
NPM Prank
- An NPM user, PatrickJS, created a package depending on all public NPM packages as a prank.
- This caused unintended consequences, even affecting PatrickJS himself.