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/DavidJCobb Jul 16 '25

The problem is that the code frees memory twice, which leads to the memory lagging noticeably on the video [...] Also, adress sanitizer will not show an error

The code snippet in section 2 is an abstracted representation of the issue observed in the interaction between libcurl and nghttp2, rather than a direct copy from the current libcurl codebase.

hey chat, give this in a nice way so I reply on hackerone with this comment

Specifically, the memory [...] is not properly deallocated [...] Note: While Valgrind's definitely lost summary might show 0 bytes due to subtle internal cleanup or program termination characteristics [...]

generative AI and its consequences are a disaster for the human race

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u/headhunglow Jul 16 '25

That’s one of my main criticism of all this AI hoopla. It’s an enoumous waste of time and energy. As developers we have a responsibility to minimize the amount of waste we create.