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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