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What filter?

You say you rely on CC to suggest software to install from the internet, and then you install it.

I haven't heard anyone suggest CC or any LLM as a "filter" for "is this package safe right now", and it seems like a very bad heuristic to me, not only, but also for the reason you gave.

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Well, people weren't checking CVEs before pip install before CC either, CC just scaled the habit to a larger audience at a faster cadence. The blast radius for day-zero compromises is what changed.

How has the blast radius changed though? The vibecoders that weren't developers before? If someone switched from pip installing themselves to having Claude do it, I don't see how that increased the blast radius.

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