That’s true, but this repo has thousands of bugs. They could at least find one that was in the training set, but also did not contain the location in the bug description.

This way it would at least look like it may work

Decision makers and those writing the check aren’t sophisticated enough to know the difference, in my experience with orgs that buy from IBM.

every hype cycle runs through a predictable course.

we are at a phase where the early adopters have seen the writing on the wall.. ie that llms are useful for a limited set of usecases. but there are lots of late adopters who are still awestruck and not disillusioned yet.

Indeed. It's also amusing how it produces a multi-page essay on the bug instead of submitting a pull request with an actionable fix.