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AI is making it harder to deal with bug reports.

Daniel Stenberg, the Curl programming language’s lead developer, writes that AI is gumming up the works in bug reporting.

Stenberg says AI-prompted bug reports can seem legit, and take longer to disprove than normal false alarms. In one case, he asked the submitter for help reproducing the bug. The responses were all suspiciously chatbot-like.

After repeated questions and numerous hallucinations I realized this was not a genuine problem and on the afternoon that same day I closed the issue as not applicable. There was no buffer overflow.

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