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I have now encountered several cases of unintelligible documentation - functional requirements, security measures, technical how-tos - where I had to ask the author for clarification, and getting as a reply "oh I don't know; I just asked #ChatGPT".

Now I can bash #ai tools, but people who produce documentation that they themselves don't understand have always been a blight on #IT. It's irresponsible, unprofessional, and makes work harder for everyone.

Hey fellow developers!

If you've ever accidentally caused a security incident, or been part of a team that did, I'd like to hear about it (privately if you want).

I have a few of my own, I'm not just hoping to laugh at others.

I'm writing a presentation about how security incidents come about, from a dev and product perspective. For our learning, but mostly for security people who are flummoxed as to why we would do the things we do.

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