How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts -- Brian Krebs

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2. I've been programming since the early 1960s and still continue. I'm ambivalent about what's happening.

My first language was BAL (Basic Assembler Language) for those brand-spanking new IBM 360s. Each instruction hand coded on coding sheets to be transferred to punch cards, ...

Then came macros for the assemblers and then higher-order languages such as COBOL, Fortran, C, Java, etc. Each new language built upon the lessons from the earlier ones and added features to make it easier to program and build systems.

I think the code assistants that were added to the IDEs started this trail into the woods - the assistants would finish statements and even code blocks. Wasn't yet called "Vibe coding" but was getting there.

The human is still needed to understand the problem at a high level and give prompts to the AI - this is iterative much like a partnership. And then to test/verify the results. I think the needs for this human-machine interactions will persist but moving higher up in the abstractions.

It could be a fascinating time, and a scary time.