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Some.

In software & in security, 99% is a failing grade.

So is 99.99%, so is 99.999%, and any other amount less than 100%. It’s not enough to point 5 LLMs at it and it’s not enough to point 500 LLMs at it.

The field needs to seek deterministic & comprehensive solutions to whole problem classes.

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Okay, so the whole world is failing and success doesn't exist.

Maybe now you need a better criteria than your previous failure / success_100%_infiniteCost to observe and understand the the world

This logic enables and encourages corruption in all spheres of life. "Things are messed up as they are, so why try so hard to do the right thing?" "Let's be realistic."

The logic allows that to continue because "good" and "better" isn't good enough, only "perfect" is allowed, so instead "nothing" is done

It's not as black and white as you claim. 99% is obviously much better than 0%, and 99.999% would be an exceptional, unheard-of improvement. In most software projects, this would find ALL bugs.

And most "memory safe" languages are not all that memory safe. Or they need escape hooks.

EDIT: To be clear it's not AT ALL black and white. You have drunken too much of the type safety kool-aid.

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