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Securing AI-Generated Bash Scripts Before You Run Them
Bash is the easiest language for AI to write and the easiest language to get devastating output from. A 20-line script that "just cleans up old files" can recursively delete a home directory because the model assumed a variable would always be set. A "simple log shipper" can write your secrets to a remote server because the model used set -x for debugging and forgot to remove it.
I have run AI-generated bash that I should not have. Most engineers I know have too. After enough close calls, t...
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