Flaky LLMs and secure containers
Hybrid Meetup #51 took place 2025-05-27 19:00 at renewable energy startup Gridfuse and we had two shorter presentations:
- Beyond Benchmarks: Human x LLM for Go and other code (intermediate report)
- StackRox architecture and repository setup
LLM for coding related tasks
LLM use for coding remains constrained to well scoped problems with some human domain knowledge, oversight and review. It is still possible to spot generated code, it lacks a kind of handwriting.
Using an LLM can teleport you into a codebase and let you explore or ask specific questions. For code generation, a disciplined approach would be to review every line of output.
This was an intermediate report and we hope, we can have a more comprehensive assessment of the effects on (Go) software development in the future.
Container security and StackRox architecture bits
We did some architecture and code review along diagrams and code:
Some notes:
- Open Policy Agent could have been a component, but for the StackRox use case it was deemed to slow at the time
- StackRox is an example of a vertically scaled project (albeit at some point in the past they had a microservices architecture)
- data structures are modeled in with protobuf, e.g. for storage, other code is then generated from these definitions
- we looked at a singleton service pattern, e.g. used here: singleton.go
Meetup #48 also gave a high level overview of StackRox.
Misc
Thanks, Gridfuse!
Thanks a lot to Gridfuse for providing a excellent venue in the center of Leipzig and great space for our meetup - and others!
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