It must feel so good to make a blog post that hates on vibecoding and get your mandated recognition for a regurgitated point. Nobody is even arguing that this article said anything novel, it’s just pure hate
The required cover letter for a $120k-$130k/y job is 3 - 4 short paragraphs explaining why you're interested in Innolitics and this particular position.
What about this article raises this question? If anything, this article makes it pretty clear that memory safe languages are a win. It seems like a serious disadvantage to require a nondeterministic program to evaluate your code's safety.
In general I agree and suspect that memory safety is a tool that will continue to pay dividends for some time.
But there are tradeoffs and more ways to write correct and 'safe' code than doing it in a "memory safe" language. If frontier models indeed are a step function in finding vulnerabilities, then they're also a step function in writing safer code. We've been able to write safety critical C code with comprehensive testing for a long time (with SQLite presenting a well known critique of the tradeoffs).
The rub has been that writing full coverage tests, fuzzing, auditing, etc. has been costly. If those costs have changed, then it's an interesting topic to try to undertand how.
> If frontier models indeed are a step function in finding vulnerabilities, then they're also a step function in writing safer code. We've been able to write safety critical C code with comprehensive testing for a long time (with SQLite presenting a well known critique of the tradeoffs).
More like: a few people have been able to write C code where the vulnerabilities are obscure enough that we mostly don't discover them very often.
The result of the phenomenon described in the article is that the gap between 99.9% secure and 100% secure just got a whole lot wider. Using herculean amounts of testing and fuzzing to catch most of the holes in a language that lacks secure-by-construction qualities is going to be even less viable going forward.
This is crazy. It's especially crazy how nonchalantly the employees are replying. The person suggesting that Railway should clearly show the effected logs is right.
Might be worth taking a weekend day and letting claude code reverse engineer the apk (just download the apk off google) and then build an open source app with the functions you need
This is really good stuff, I just wish they had an email list I could subscribe to. I get that they have an RSS feed but an RSS reader is more ceremony than I'm willing to devote to one website without an email form. It's a shame really because it's a pretty cool site.
Is Microsoft (one of the largest companies in the world) really a victim of brand death?
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