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simonwyesterday at 9:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

The HackerOne slop is because there's a financial incentive (bug bounties) involved, which means people who don't know what they are doing blindly submit anything that an LLM spots for them.

If you're running the security audit yourself you should be in a better position to understand and then confirm the issues that the coding agents highlight. Don't treat something as a security issue until you can confirm that it is indeed a vulnerability. Coding agents can help you put that together but shouldn't be treated as infallible oracles.


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hansvmtoday at 1:10 AM

That sounds like the same problem (a deluge of slop) with a different interface (eating straight from the trough rather than waiting for someone to put a bow on it and stamp their name to it)?

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johannes1234321yesterday at 10:29 PM

The question still is: will enough useful stuff be included, to make it worth to dig through the slop? And how to tune the prompt to get better results.

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