I’m trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    particular behavior that feels weird

    Yea, AI doesn’t do feelings.

    tries to upload your environment variables into some unexpected URL

    Most of the time that is obfuscated and can’t be detected as part of a code review. It only shows up in dynamic analysis.

    • unknowing8343OP
      42·
      3 months ago

      AI doesn’t do feelings

      How can I have a serious conversation with these annoying answers? Come on, you know what I am talking about. Even an AI chatbot would know what I mean.

      Any AI chatbot, even “general purpose” ones will read your code and will return a description of what it does if you ask it.

      And particularly AI would be great at catching “useless”, “weird” or unexplainable code in a repository. Maybe not with the current levels of context. But that’s what I want to know, if these tools (or anything similar) exist yet.

      Thank you.

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        11·
        3 months ago

        Questions about AI seem to always bring out these naysayers. I can only assume they feel threatened? You see the same tedious fallacies again and again:

        • AI can’t “think” (using some arbitrary and unstated definition of the word “think” that just so happens to exclude AI by definition).
        • They’re stochastic parrots and can only reproduce things they’ve seen in their training set (despite copious evidence to the contrary).
        • They’re just “next word predictors” so they fundamentally are incapable of doing X (where X is a thing they have already done).