20:49 Check this huge slop
Check this huge slop. I don't think that LLMs have changed a lot of things radically, in fact they might not be changing anything at all, internally, what they change is the scale of everything 1, i.e. the constrains that determine wither an idea is 'good' enough to be a working prototype. Back in the day, if you were dumb enough to think you can build something like that, reality tended to intervene early, you probably will get filtered out or turned down the time you face your first runtime error or the time you showcase your work to actual experienced engineer. Most bad ideas died early enough for anyone to notice them2. Instead, LLM allow people to spend days building something that might look plausible, but totally sloppy. #I'm not consulting an LLM #Programming
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one of these are cybersecurity attacks, they don't change much in their nature or practice, but their scale changes so much, as now you can have 10 agents trying things out for you in the background, making accounts and bypass the barrier of effort spent for penetration testing
Same thing, of course, applies to good ideas that came to people who were not interested enough to put effort in.