alt Hacker News> For example, in testing by the investment firm Millennium, Fable 5.1 found the cause of a rare crash on their internal systems that none of their engineers (or any other model) had been able to explain after several years of trying.
Say what you will about LLM-generated code, but stories like this give me hope that software will never be as buggy as it once was.
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Software will be buggier than ever but also way less buggy.
I think we'll have lots of bugs. They'll just be found and closed way sooner. You'll have an agent that watchs for issues, then opens a PR fixing it.
I sometimes have that feeling too, then ask another LLM to do a code and vulnerability review and OMG: rookie mistakes, over complications and security gaps even a 1st year student would not make regularly.
So.. one more year of untreated bipolar AI psychosis I guess..
We will have more bugs. Even the best models with the best software engineers will produce bugs. There are two reasons : first the pressure to produce more and second LLMs will always produce slop
The marketing here trick is, if they spent the same money on humans they'd have found it years ago.
Instead, the lurking variable here is new budget was added. With the new budget, they added a new tool, and the bug was located.
The difference here was budget.