[Taters91]

These kind of checks were available without AI.

[sheikhnbake]

Math is doable without a calculator

[happytoexplain]

The headline is "AI uncovers...", implying that the standard static analyzers used by basically everybody didn't catch them.

[serf]

isn't this just sort of turning chicken-or-egg?

if an AI uses static analyzers to do work ,is it the tool or the ai ?

if AI is using grep to do the work, is it the AI or grep?

I mean essentially all agent work boils down to "cat or grep?"

[RA_Fisher]

AI gives us a means of leverage. We can do more with less. production = f(labor, capital, technology) + eps

[krainboltgreene]

This always comes up and the only thing I can think is: Doesn't Google make like 10B a quarter in profit from GCP alone? Did we really need a cheaper SQL injection checker?

[positron26]

Was the human labor?