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Net-Negative Cursor
AI-assisted development is all the rage nowadays. I'm sceptical, but really want to give these tools a fair shot.
A useful AI-driven development tool would have pushed back against the suggestion to add maximum string length validation, and would have explained something like: The bytes are decoded as UTF-8 immediately afterwards, and there are various Unicode-specific control characters like paragraph separators, interlinear annotations, or bidi isolates. A useful AI-driven development tool wouldn't just pick one solution, but explain the problem space and let the programmer make an informed choice.
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