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Posted by stratos123 13 hours ago

Significant Raise of Reports(lwn.net)
257 points | 131 commentspage 3
themafia 12 hours ago|
An AI enthusiast having a breathless and predictive position on the future of the technology? No way! It's almost like Wall Street is about to sour on the whole stack and there is a concerted effort to artificially push these views into the conversation to get people on board.

Then again, I'm a known crank and aggressive cynic, but you never really see any gathered data backing these points up.

dieulot 11 hours ago||
Could you back up your assertion that Willy Tarreau — who used to maintain the Linux kernel — is “an AI enthusiast”? I can’t find anything about it.
cdavid 10 hours ago|||
Also one of the initial creator of haproxy, a well known reverse proxy. To imply somebody like as a simple "AI shill" is just ignorant.
logicprog 10 hours ago|||
Anyone who says anything good about AI must be an AI shill from the start, not someone who is genuinely observing reality or had their mind changed, don't you know?
logicprog 10 hours ago|||
> but you never really see any gathered data backing these points up.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security

?

PKop 10 hours ago||
Sort of a tautology to just assert that someone saying good things about AI is an AI enthusiast and therefore their opinion should be dismissed. He also happens to have been a kernel maintainer, his experience as he's describing it should count for something.
orthecreedence 3 hours ago||
> He also happens to have been a kernel maintainer

And a primary author of one of the most stable and used load balancers in the history of networking.

stratos123 13 hours ago||
"On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us."
sevg 11 hours ago|
Is there a reason you’ve copy pasted the first paragraph from the link? It doesn’t add anything to the discussion, and also doesn’t help as a tl;dr because it’s literally the first paragraph. Genuine question!
stratos123 8 hours ago||
The actual title is pretty unclear ("Significant Raise of Reports" of what?), so I considered replacing it by some of this excerpt, but HN rules say not to editorialize titles. Hence I put it into the `text` field, which I thought would be the body, but actually just gets posted as a comment.
throwatdem12311 10 hours ago|
Reports being written faster than bugs being created? Better quality software than before the 2000s?

Oh my sweet summer child.

This is some seriously delusional cope from someone who drank the entire jug of kool-aid.

I’d love to be proven wrong but the current trajectory is pretty plain as day from current outcomes. Everything is getting worse, and everyone is getting overwhelmed and we are under attack even more and the attacks are getting substantially more sophisticated and the blast radius is much bigger.