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simonwlast Saturday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

You're posting this comment on a thread attached to an article where Filippo Valsorda - a noted cryptography expert - used these tools to track down gnarly bugs in Go cryptography code.


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tptaceklast Saturday at 10:21 PM

They're also using "AI SAST tools", which: I would not expect anything branded as a "SAST" tool to find interesting bugs. SAST is a term of art for "pattern matching to a grocery list of specific bugs".

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delusionallast Saturday at 10:40 PM

These are not "gnarly bugs".

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