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Re:A buffer overflow in the XNU kernel by chad1n on Thursday June 20, 2024 @04:16PM (#40742872)
There is a bigger chance that a toddler smashing a keyboard finds a bug than gpt5. LLMs can't understand intent, so they literally work like `grep` with little to no understanding of the context, so most of the time it will false flag good code.

There are already a lot of tools already to find bugs, like fuzzers, but I am sure that LLMs won't be one of them.

Re:A buffer overflow in the XNU kernel by exe34 on Thursday June 20, 2024 @04:41PM (#40743134)
they don't need to understand intent, they just need to find exploits. they don't even need to do it by reading code alone - give them a vm running the code and let them throw excrement at it until something sticks!
Re:A buffer overflow in the XNU kernel by barkingcat on Thursday June 20, 2024 @04:53PM (#40743245)
Llm powered / guided fuzzer would be pretty cool though.
Re:A buffer overflow in the XNU kernel by zX41ZdbW on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:08PM (#40743395)