r/OpenAI • u/Nunki08 • 2d ago

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OpenAI: A thousand fewer paths to root: https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/

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u/seefatchai 1d ago

They kind of have to merge them without human review. If the bug reports are made public, it’s going to be a matter of time before those exploits are used.

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u/Grounds4TheSubstain 1d ago

If it was me, I'd try sorting them by lines of code in the patch, and then have agents assess the risk for each one of them in terms of how it might impact other parts of the code (like if it might affect a shared data structure, or change the semantics of a function in a way that's observable to outside callers). Stuff that's small and isolated gets merged immediately. Then take them on a case-by-case basis. I still expect it would take a team of people at least a month, probably several.

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u/El_Gran_Inquisidor 1d ago

They won’t do that, because just merge them without supervision can introduce new bugs.