alt Hacker NewsApart from Daniel Sternberg's frequent complaints about AI slop, he also writes [1]
> A new breed of AI-powered high quality code analyzers, primarily ZeroPath and Aisle Research, started pouring in bug reports to us with potential defects. We have fixed several hundred bugs as a direct result of those reports – so far.
[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/23/a-curl-2025-review/
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p2detar • yesterday at 2:48 PM
So? Those are automated analysis tools and by "slop" he seems to refer to careless reports crafted using AI, solely for collecting bounties:
https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...
That's very interesting! It links to:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-analyz...
and its HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348