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by miki123211 62 days ago
So this bug just proves my thesis about shortening update windows.

You may need Claude Mythos to find a hard-to-discover bug in a 30-year-old open source codebase, but that bug will eventually be patched, and that patch will eventually hit the git repo. This lets smaller models rediscover the bug a lot more easily.

I won't be surprised if the window between a git commit and active port scans shrinks to hours or maybe even minutes in the next year or two.

This is where closed source SaaS has a crucial advantage. You don't get the changelog, and even if you did, it wouldn't be of much use to you after the fix is deployed to production.

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I found a 20-year old bug in gmime a couple of months or so ago. You don't need to be an AI to do that ...

It also puts the lie to "all bugs are shallow with sufficient eyes", gmime is pretty commonly used, but locale<->UTF and back were still wrong.