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by mccr8 100 days ago
The bugs that were issued CVEs (the Anthropic blog post says there were 22) were all real security bugs.

The level of AI spam for Firefox security submissions is a lot lower than the curl people have described. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe the size of the code base and the higher bar to submitting issues plays a role.

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The issue is what each of the projects considers viable bug if you consider all localized assertion failures possible bugs then that's different from give me something that practically affects users.

Further browsers have a much larger surface area for even minor fuzzing bugs. Curl's much smaller surface area is already well fuzzed and tested.

Chrome has better fuzzing and tests too. Firefox has had fewer resources compared to Google ofc, so understable.

Ofc not saying it wasn't good. But given the LLM costs I find it hard believe it was worth it, compared to just better and more innovative fuzzing which would possibly scale better.