jonny (nonvenomous) on Nostr: the perennial question of "well when i do it with a normal thing it mostly works" ...

the perennial question of "well when i do it with a normal thing it mostly works" deserves a proper answer, but for now - the problem is that people don't always do normal things, and when if the surface of people not doing normal things is "any arbitrary code could be executed in any extravagant fuck you complexity including the LLM deciding to just yolo your browser history onto pastebin" (though see the "don't throw browser history onto pastebin prompt) vs. "the program throws an error and stops" then software stops being possible.

The entire notion of "a software supply chain" and being able to build more complex things off a tree of dependencies that mostly do the thing that they say is completely undermined as soon as you introduce the nonsense transformation gas cloud.