Comment the roach motel (Score 1) 24
An AI ultra-lint finds some vulnerabilities, so what does management do?
They have another AI they rented "fix" the vulnerabilities it knows about.
And soon, no human can know and work reliably on the code.
Management poured money into the initiative, and will not be proven wrong:
"AI found what humans didn't, so AI has proven to be a better 'programmer' than any human.'
Sure, something small isn't a big deal for a pro, but a code base significant enough
to undergo the expense of this process and then set the CIO's hair on fire,
say, the access permissions system for a major bank,
will soon be pwned by the AI vendor, forever more.
The first step is "AI, write this". It was easy, it worked, it's magical. You inspect the code, it's not bad.
The next step (because why do it yourself now?), is "AI, extend the thing you wrote", and it does it.
You test it, it works ok, maybe you glance at the code this time, maybe not.
New requirements come down, and you try tossing the AI the raw requirements and it
poots out a thing good enough to pass QA.
This time, you don't look at the code at all. Why bother?
And now, the AI owns the code base, and your organization is forever captive.
This is happening, at scale, everywhere, right now.
Good plan, frat boys. Enjoy your bonuses. The won't last much longer.