You misread pretty much everything I wrote. My original comment wasn't an explanation for why fixing bugs in general is a "waste of time". My opinion is that uploading your code to this service that uses ML to automatically generate bugs for your team to do a bug bash on is a waste of time.
Our bug backlog has hundreds, if not thousands, of bugs already. We don't need to rely on ML to tell us what to fix.
We have real issues that customers are facing that need immediate attention. This is just a total distraction and a waste of time.
If you want me to fix your bugs, pay me for it. Don't do this gamification nonsense.
Edit: apparently I did misunderstand how this works. It seems like the "Bugbusters" are just a company's normal developers. It still seems kinda dumb, but not as exploitative as I initially thought.
That said, other providers of this type of tooling might take some ideas from something like this.
You do realize most developers are asked to fix bugs anyways, regardless of any silly competition?
Their pitch to Organizations is that
1) They may be able to help you save money 2) They may make it more fun / easier to solve bugs.
Pitch to developers - they'll give you some perks for doing your job.
Note that I also think it's lame because I don't think code guru is that good and don't care about re"invent