Everyone insane or what?

Posted Apr 2, 2026 8:19 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Everyone insane or what? by pm215
Parent article: The role of LLMs in patch review

> False positives from an automated tool help nobody, they're pure loss.

That's not true with LLMs, surprisingly enough — and precisely for the same reason that's usually perceived as LLMs weakness.

LLMs couldn't “think”, but they are the world's best generators of bullshit (term from the 1986 year paper).

That makes their “true false positives” rare surprisingly low. If you define “false positive” not as “there are no issues with code but LLM says there is” but as “there are no issues with the code and it's obvious why there are no issues with the code” then false positives rate drops to almost zero, because most places where LLM finds “something fishy” (when, in fact, everything is fine) are quite tricky and deserve at least a comment if not change to the code.