A budget model upgraded an exploitable old codebase to patched modern PHP in 15 minutes

DeepSeek upgraded gnarly, exploitable PHP 7.x code to fully patched PHP 8.3 in about 15 minutes for a few dimes of tokens.

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How it works

The model upgrades gnarly, exploitable old-version code to fully patched current PHP in about 15 minutes
For a few dimes of tokens

Why it’s worth knowing

Exploitable and old is the worst pair of adjectives in code; both are gone.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be

2The prompt, with the steps

3The check when it’s done

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