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by chrisco255 980 days ago
If it takes you longer to vet hallucinations than to just test your code better, is it an improvement? If you accept a bug fix for a hallucination that you got too lazy to check because you grew dependent on AI to do the analysis for you, and the bug "fix" itself causes other unforeseen issues or fails to recognize why an exception in this case might be worth preserving, is it really an improvement?
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What if it takes you longer to vet false positives from a static analysis tool rather than just testing your code better?
What if indeed. Most static analyses tools (disclaimer: anecdotal) have very little false positives these days. This may be much worse in C/C++ land though, I don't know.