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kojolina | 1 year ago

Just bang out a bunch of C code, feed it to an AI: "Make this memory safe". Profit.

No need for rust, Ada, CHERI, SPARK, etc.

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pjc50|1 year ago

You could also pray, that's about as likely to be effective.

GoblinSlayer|1 year ago

A rewrite isn't strictly necessary. It should be enough if AI can find errors, doesn't even need to be very precise.

saagarjha|1 year ago

Profit from your AI-powered security company, sure. But the exploit authors are profiting too.

BiteCode_dev|1 year ago

Now the billion dollar question, how to make that work for the entire linux kernel.

cjfd|1 year ago

If it is too big just zip it and feed chunks of the resulting zipfile to the AI. AI can do anything, right?

nottorp|1 year ago

Easy, triple the hardware requirements and don't talk to any hardware because if you do you'll have to mess with buffers in a non approved way.