Comment by MBCook
3 days ago
I remember an LWN article on this question a few weeks ago. The debate was going on and they weren’t sure if it was that there were more bugs or just that because of AI they suddenly knew about more bugs than usual.
Either way, unfortunate but a very understandable decision.
I'm inclined to think the latter - all sorts of software, particularly long-standing open source Unix software written in C, is riddled with bugs that sometimes don't get discovered until years later. Most ordinary Unix system software like Postgres is written in such a way that it's not possible to be confident that the code is free of subtle bugs, and we should assume that it is not free of subtle bugs.
Yeah, I don't understand how this can even be a question when we're finding an unprecedented number of bugs that are decades old.
I think the concern was the bugs in the new features specifically but still I suspect you’re right it’s just that AI finding them “early”.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1092003/
Determinable for a code base, with enough tokens.