• mholiv@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    People used LLMs to find bugs that existed before LLMs created code.

    LLMs are VERY good at finding bugs in existing code. That and C as a language is prone to memory bugs. Even before LLMs there has been a call to move to memory safe languages.

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      3 days ago

      Ai has made me a btter bug hunter. I point an LLM at an application I like to use and give it a prompt like please scan this codebase URL for bugs.

      If it comes back with any, I then try to confirm them for myself to make sure it’s not hallucinating any, and if that bug actually does exist, then I can report it.

      I found one critical vulnerability and several high severity issues in an app that I enjoy using and reported them to the developer and got them fixed.