The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

The era of software quality has always been there like in projects like postfix. Gnome could reduce features and increase testing and auditing.

But let that not waste the opportunity to promote AI.

Everything coming from GNOME about software quality should be taken with a Strategic Petroleum Reserve of salt.

While other projects rewrite things in memory-safe ways, GNOME's response is to ask a chatbox if there are any memory vulnerabilities.

Hey does that mean they'll use "AI" to allow users to customize the desktop environment again?

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They should be using an automated AI agent to validate vulnerability reports. Have it pull up the code base, confirm the bug exists, try to reproduce, then update the ticket. You might even run another AI agent pass to clean up the text before humans look at it. AI writing quality improves a lot with multiple passes.