Post #2480026
2026-05-08 02:36 UTC
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
this seems to be the only actually beneficial gen"AI" use case to date
doesn't require endless data centers (just enough for some labs to unleash it on major projects) or the vast majority of IP theft too, and the output is transformative
though of course once the initial influx of bugs falls off, it might still not be cost-effective for incremental use
there's probably still some room for improvement in pattern matching and reproduction languages
#ai
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@archo@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-08 02:45
I clicked through a couple of the bugs they posted and all of the ones I saw at least were single-function bugs (some involved recursion) with some extremely basic mistake patterns e.g. failing to make a dependent change conditional on whether a function call succeeds, or comparing the wrong pointer out of two idk what their analysis infra is like but based on the output, I guess the LLM found the simple patterns first and then walked the code backwards to find the triggering condition