Dingaling

Safer.

Whilst the speed of discovered vulnerabilities and resulting mitigations has been exhausting for all of us, most of those existed before AI and it’s likely that some were being actively exploited already, perhaps for years.

Nation state actors have long been known to have long lists of zero-days and some of those will no longer be available. At some point, this will level out as we patch decades of poor decisions - humans have been making mistakes in software long before LLMs joined the party.

FOSS is getting more attention since the LLM audits can see the source. We don’t hear so much about commercial closed source software’s bugs, since they tend to quietly fix them to protect reputation.

Given what Jai Tan did, surely it would have been better if they’d done nothing /but/ touch grass, and stayed away from computers altogether?

(Whilst nobody knows for sure, it’s possible JT was a state actor rather than an individual)