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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by xpct on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:29AM (#50335085)
> Even if it's currently not good for my ego

If you don't mind answering, how come? Is it specifically that you dislike how abusable your code was, or something else?

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by max_k on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:34AM (#50335523)
That part was not 100% serious. Only 90% or so.

To err is human, I know that as much as anybody. Before the advent of LLMs, there were several (human) audits of my code for vulnerabilities, but they found little, which I was proud of. And now, Mythos had a quick look and found hundreds and hundreds of bugs (many of which were critical and even more were really emberassing).

Of course, I knew there were bugs that just weren't found because the auditors weren't looking closely enough, didn't have enough time/budget etc., but this unspecific feeling is different from having all the bugs accumulated over a quarter century slapped in your face at once.

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by pixl97 on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:02AM (#50336915)
Code auditors are a crapshoot. I worked around financial auditors and they were much more consistent but thats likely because standards are more well defined.

If you get a good auditor they can find a ton, but most are box checkers there to make the audit company as much money as possible.

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault by max_k on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:35AM (#50337402)
Quite possible. Ours were good, they just didn't benefit from LLM superpowers back then.

After my Mythos experience, I was wondering if there is really still a market for human code audits. I guess yes, but the work will be different, just like coding (and marketing and so on...) is different now. You still need to have an expert to wield the new powerful tools.