Developer Lost $500,000 While Coding in Cursor - How Much of It is His Fault?
There is a spectrum when it comes to making faults. Clicking on a random link of an offer that is too good to be true or sending cryptocurrency to a wallet to get 2X back are very easy to avoid. A sophisticated hack or a kidnapping done by a coordinated group of criminals is a lot more tricky.
A Warning on AI Development Tools
Coding via LLMs has been useful for some cases. I have found it to be a very good learning tool. There are many VS Code forks that are built for "AI Coding". There are extensions that help with coding. There are libraries that are often imported by LLMs when they write code. The riskiest part is that the code outputs of LLMs (or AI agents) do not have the same restrictions a browser/web app would have.
Even when the code is open source, most people do not built from the source. If any code is downloaded from the outside, the source could have been altered by a malicious party. "AI Coding" use far too many libraries from what I can see. I hardly know any programming. I do not see why LLMs could write few dozen lines of code on its own instead of importing some library.
Final Lesson: Do not keep your cryptocurrency in an environment where some arbitrary code can be run to exploit it. Use a hardware wallet or have a separate cheap device to store your assets. Please stay safe! I want you to reap the benefits of your investments!
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