And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. Matthew 7:26–27 This was originally going to be called something like, “How slopcoded is your programming language?” But as I gathered the data, I found something else – something worse.
This mention of Trusting Trust is completely nonsensical. The original attack was a self-replicating compiler that miscompiled itself to maintain the self-replication property.
This article is about how the author is upset that compilers are incorporating AI commits, because they believe that will cause bugs.
The sole thing these have in common is that they’re about a bad thing happening when you compile something. There’s no actual connection.
This mention of Trusting Trust is completely nonsensical. The original attack was a self-replicating compiler that miscompiled itself to maintain the self-replication property.
This article is about how the author is upset that compilers are incorporating AI commits, because they believe that will cause bugs.
The sole thing these have in common is that they’re about a bad thing happening when you compile something. There’s no actual connection.
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