[CamperBob2]

When's the last time you saw a decent coding model create a buffer-overflow bug while trying to use C strings?

Serious question. Anyone else seen this happen in the last 12-18 months? If so, which model and version were you using?

[krupan]

How many people are writing C code with LLMs? I get the impression it's mostly JavaScript web apps

[smackeyacky]

I had Claude write a bit of stupid C# the other day that had an off by one string truncate. Surprised the hell out of me.

[macintux]

Would you even know? Serious question. The volume of code the models can produce, the subtle ways these bugs can manifest (or even only manifest when under attack), it seems like they would be easy to overlook.

[CamperBob2]

I have a habit of getting GPT 5.5 to review everything Opus writes for me, and vice versa. The model in the reviewer role frequently finds things I overlooked myself. Occasionally in parts of the code I wrote.

No modern LLM has found any buffer overflow bugs in parts of my code that originated from another LLM. Again, though, they have found one or two that were my fault.