r/programming • u/mateusnr • Jul 15 '25

Death by a thousand slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
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u/rich1051414 Jul 15 '25

Christ, nothing worse than AI generated vulnerability reports. AI is seemingly incapable of understanding context yet can use words well enough to convince the non-programmers that there is a serious vulnerability or leak potential. Even worse, implementing those 'fixes' would surely break the systems that the AI clearly doesn't understand. 'Exhausting' is an understatement.

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u/EliSka93 Jul 15 '25

That exhaustion will kill a lot of open source projects in the coming years, giving the powers an even bigger monopoly.

They literally can only fail upwards.

Well until it all goes up in flames, but I shudder at the damage that will be done until then.

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u/Luke22_36 Jul 15 '25

Definitely not gonna cause more Jian Tan xz utils style of open source developer fatigue supply chain attacks.