cruseo comments on Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'.

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[–] cruseo@piefed.world 72 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Holy shit, this really seems like something that you shouldn’t announce publicly

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So your telling me someone only has to pay off 1 27 year old to ensure they have a backdoor into most enterprise networks?

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[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

No. They have already told off a 27 year old to ensure that the backdoor(s) they put there on purpose are still there when he gets done. It's been worse than you thought for years.