> Now consider the poor open source developers who, for the last 18 months, have complained about a torrent of slop vulnerability reports. I’d had mixed sympathies, but the complaints were at least empirically correct. That could change real fast. The new models find real stuff.
The slop reports won't stop just because real ones are coming in. If the author's right, open source maintainers will still will have to deal with the torrent of slop: on top of triaging and identifying the legit vulnerabilities. Obviously, this is just another role for AI models to fill.