Codesmith OSP code review: numerous "unbreak now" security vulnerabilities discovered after spending 5 minutes reviewing an "advanced security tool". Not the mid-level or senior engineering work it is claimed to be.

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u/VastAmphibian wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I work very closely with people in academia and this sounds just like the rounds of revisions a manuscript goes through. Not *exactly* forthcoming about the data, but technically not a flat out lie either. Many hours of meetings just to decide which exact word to use in a sentenc

u/michaelnovati replied · Sep 29, 2023 ★ FEATURED

Yeah, I've "written" two papers as an undergrad. One won a best paper award at a large conference... after the PhD students rewrote it in the "proper language" lol. I think the difference is academia is heavily peer reviewed and collaborative and these projects have literally no one looking at the code. But it's somewhat similar yeah