Post #3718301
2026-07-10 14:12 UTC
Over on the CERIAS Blog…
Too many people are prone to accepting hype and myths about computing, and that often leads to poor decisions. 20 years ago, my first post in the CERIAS blog addressed an example — the folk wisdom that monthly password changes improve security — a myth that had already survived 30 years and that NIST needed until 2017 to retire. The same mythmaking machinery is at work around AI: the claim that LLMs make software developers, security analysts,…
https://spaf.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/over-on-the-cerias-blog/
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@Sempf@infosec.exchange 2026-07-10 14:17
@spaf@mstdn.social You could, in fact, say "the claim that LLMs make _________ into _________." It's a expensive Dunning-Kruger machine.
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@lmk@infosec.exchange 2026-07-10 15:05
@spaf@mstdn.social How right you are (and were). IMHO this is just one example of a lack of critical thinking about software that's pervasive. Everything (languages, apps, frameworks, protocols) people are totally for or against because: there's precious little serious discussion between the sides, finding consensus with any middle position is so hard. On top of that legacy locks us in so quickly revisiting any of this soon becomes daunting to change later. And the coup de gras software people all think coding proves how logical they are...