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by evanmoran 85 days ago
It also depends on if the CVEs can be fixed by LLMs too. If they can find and fix them, then it's very good.
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Fixing isn't often a problem for CVEs. The hard part is almost always finding the CVE in the first place.

There are some extreme cases that might require extensive code changes, and those would benefit from LLMs. But a lot of the issues are things like off by one issues with pointers.

Fixing is now the bottleneck.

Most patches are non-trivial and then each project/maintainer has a preferred coding style, and they’re being inundated with PRs already, and don’t take kindly to slop.

LLMs can find the CVE fully zero interaction, so it scales trivially.