533: Critical Failure in Open Source

Coder Radio

U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?

Plus, Mike's thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed.

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• A Study on Robustness and Reliability of Large Language Model Code Generation — The evaluation results show that evenfor GPT-4, 62% of the generated code contains API misuses,which would cause unexpected consequences if the code isintroduced into real-world software.