Earlier this summer, Sean Heelan published a great blog post detailing his use of o3 to find a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel. The internet lit up in response, and for good reason. Since the initial release of ChatGPT in late 2022, we’ve all been wondering: Can LLMs really find complex vulnerabilities in widely used production codebases? The Linux kernel is a great research target to help answer that question.| noperator.dev
I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn. Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements. Something that used to take 4-8 hours of RTFMing, now took 15min. I have since worked on chatcraft.org, various RAG frameworks, etc. I use aider heavily for work, frequently switch models, have been struggling with tool calling since...| Taras' Blog on AI, Perf, Hacks