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For about a year as a hobby I've been writing an app that scratches several itches that I've had with the fediverse (multiple accounts at once, supporting both microblog- and threaded-style content, synthetic/hybrid feeds, etc.) and for the past month or so have been using it exclusively on the desktop and about 50% of the time on mobile (Voyager is my main mobile client and source of inspiration here). I'd like to open source the whole thing. But the code is mine, therefore buggy and bad. Normally I'd not worry too much about that, but in the age of LLM attacks I don't want to contribute more security vulnerabilities to the world. Should I use an LLM security tool to analyze my code and point out security issues so I can patch them before releasing the code? If so that would more or less be the only AI contribution. I'm a practical-minded person and use AI tools at work so it doesn't bother me, but I know lots of people here have strong (and often helpful) opinions on the matter.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say "sure, why not?"

Depends on how expensive the tool is, mind you. I use local models so I've never had to poke around much at how much the paid ones go for, I don't know what you're using.

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The company I work for uses CodeRabbit Security and allows our team to use it for personal FOSS projects. I don't know if it's the best tool, but it's the one I know (and certainly one of the more popular ones), so it'll still do a much better job than I would manually.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 3 hours ago

Oh by all means then. Free is free. :)