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silly premise

silly premise

Posted Sep 2, 2025 15:54 UTC (Tue) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
In reply to: silly premise by HenrikH
Parent article: The hidden vulnerabilities of open source (FastCode)

I agree with you. This is just clickbait trying to surf on the AI-everywhere wave. Whoever has already got an AI-generated report will tell you that they're quickly recognized and that the bot is totally unable to engage in any form of sensible conversation. In practice, AI reports are refined multiple times before being sent, and it's even likely that the chat session they emerged from no longer exists, thus it likely requires the reporter to try to restart a session from scratch with a bit of context and our question and see the bot generate tons of hallucination crap that they just cannot post.

Right now you almost never get a response to any context question for these reports.

And when chat bots will be smart enough to discuss the review in real time and make it look legit, they'll also be smart enough to run the review as well. Bots will talk to bots and this will go who-knows-where.

On the opposite, I wouldn't bet much on the long life of closed source where code is already being generated in part by chat bots but there's nobody to control it. The only ones that see it are those doing it for a living and who are incentived on disassembling code, running bindiffs etc where the problems remain visible.


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