The link you sent basically says "you pinky-promise that you're 18."
Later in the doc it also says "you promise not to send malware."
This type of age "identification" is a lot different than age verification, submission of ID, etc.
I can't help but notice that Grok/X is not part of this initiative, though. I realize that frontier models are really coming from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, but it feels like someone is going to give in to these demands.
It's incredible how quickly we've devolved into full-blown sci-fi dystopia.
Maybe this was sarcasm, but it's a good point:
"Coding" is solved in the same way that "writing English language" is solved by LLMs. Given ideas, AI can generate acceptable output. It's not writing the next "Ulysses," though, and it's definitely not coming up with authentically creative ideas.
But the days of needing to learn esoteric syntax in order to write code are probably numbered.
I've noticed e-ink/paper displays having somewhat of a moment right now (especially very small "phone-like" form factors as portable ereaders), and I hope this trend continues.
I'm very far from a meaningful reduction in "screen time," but looking at e-ink displays instead of OLEDs feels like a nice step in that direction.
My initial claim was overly broad, but the feeling of discomfort feels widespread to me.
In my experience, some of that is technical skepticism, some of it is job-related anxiety, and some might just be fear of the unknown.
I still think that security engineering skill sets, once pivoted to "design of resilient systems," will be a differentiator between quickly-built projects and enterprise-ready software. But we'll see!
I don't yet have access to Claude Code Security, but I think that line of reasoning misses the point. Maybe even the real benefit.
Just like architectural thinking is still important when developing software with AI, creative security assessments will probably always be a key component of security evaluation.
But you don't need highly paid security engineers to tell you that you forgot to sanitize input, or you're using a vulnerable component, or to identify any of the myriad issues we currently use "dumb" scanners for.
My hope is that tools like this can help automate away the "busywork" of security. We'll see how well it really works.
Absolutely agree that if everything splintered, it would be a mess.