Comment by baq
7 days ago
I wonder if this was found with LLM assistance, if yes, with which one and is it a one-off or does it mark a start of a new era (I assume it does).
7 days ago
I wonder if this was found with LLM assistance, if yes, with which one and is it a one-off or does it mark a start of a new era (I assume it does).
If you haven't seen news related to LLM generated bug reports, they are pretty disliked due to poor quality. So yes, a new LLM generated bug report era has begun, and the results so far have been moderator/developer burnout, increased time between real bugs being taken care of (as devs treat each submission as a true possible bug), and many projects no longer accepting bug reports. I have seen a couple anecdotal incidents when someone used LLMs to generate real bugs, one guy showing off a chain he made to HN, and that was really neat. LLMs aren't unable to make reports, but scammers and vibecoders see the dollar signs that they aren't going to put real effort in trying to get, and submit every response from a prompt similar to "provide me a bug report for [XX package/app]" in hopes that one pays out. The individuals I saw make real bug reports were already developers and were able to test out and iterate with the code the LLM provided, making connections of their own, just like any other person who uses LLMs responsibly instead of outsourcing thinking.
Absolutely nothing in the announcement or other publicly available source implies that, to my knowledge. Might as well speculate if a random passer-by on the street is secretly a martian.