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Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
(www.theregister.com)
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Note: This does not mean that AI tools can't find bugs. There are plenty of tools that are able to, and for sure plenty of bugs out there that have not been found yet.
Well, we have used C/C++ in applications instead of higher-level languages. AI could atleast be used to port them, even to, say, a slightly higher-level language like Vala for GNOME apps. Automating the putting of lipstick on a pig and the fattening of pigs isn't very useful if horses are the better choice.
Indeed. What Daniel actually said was that, if you have already used the other AI tools to find bugs, Mythos is unlikely to find more.
And fuzzing and static analyzers.