alt Hacker NewsGoogle fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
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with excellent test cases, AI can do wonders, human's task in AI world is to just write as many tests cases as we can.
a lot of these bugs wouldn't have ever been found without AI
My fear is that on average all software will get worse and be less optimized. There will still be high quality products at a high cost with high touch humans shepherding development, but I think there will also be a bunch of 'good enough' slop for everyday functional tasks where there exists neither the talent nor the budget to create truly wonderful solution.
Fast foot didn't kill fine dining, but it is killing us..
I wish they'd spent more time on improving the UI now. It's largely been the same since Chrome appeared. Their recent vertical tabs are so much inferior to Dia, which is built by a much smaller team.
Maybe fix all the decade-long old bugs first.
AI meaning Claude or Codex, because Gemini is a laughingstock for coding. Also Gemini was mentioned only once in the article.
More important thing:
Do you import new more bugs?
But how many new ones did it introduce?
The biggest bug still has not been fixed here, which is:
Google.
We really need an alternative to this greedy and evil corporations de-facto controlling a huge portion of the modern www stack. All decision-making processes are here subjugated to what fits Google's adEmpire. This is a perpetual system of control amplifying abusive systems in place. We already see this with the recent age sniffing; Google just yesterday announced that all android users must hand over their age to everyone else. Before that google kicked out or locked out open source alternatives to android (or, at the least, made their life significantly harder than before). These are not isolated ways of abuse - this is systematic abuse.
We really need alternatives to Google here. It can not be that one tyrant company dictates so much of people's open lives (and no, Firefox is no alternative; Mozilla is basically a nerfed and bribed entity that has given up on firefox many years ago already; ladybird may become an alternative at one point in time, but right now is not and there are questions over how Kling handles the overall project, but these complaints are significantly below what Google is doing globally here).
Fixing more bugs in the adChromium code base does not change the underlying problem at hand.
Interesting, but IMHO the title of this post misses the point of the linked page.
And how many vulnerabilities did they introduce ;)
Maybe they could ask the AI to fix their atrocious build times. Only in Chrome do you have 300 line source files that blow up to 20 megabytes after preprocessing as a matter of course. 3 GB per compile job is getting more common - and RAM is expensive right now!
Earlier today I opened Chrome on my iPhone, went to the Reading List. It started flicking fast and then the phone restarted. That's a first for me on iPhone.
This makes zero sense with the amount of engineers they have, most of those bugs even would be fixed for free by highly competent people.
Real question is: how much those "fixed" bugs actually bothered the users to begin with?
But since Google cares mostly about its investors, the numbers and a mention of Gemini in such a blog post are more important.
Me too! It's actually tiring! In a good way
I've mostly only used Codex for reviews, for Godot/GDScript code, and it helped me catch bugs that would've taken me ages to even notice on my own; games be tricky like that.
Claude was mostly useless or annoying up until the last time I tried it (about 3 months ago)
You have to be vigilant though: Codex often picks out obscure edge cases and suggests adding multiple new functions and flags to avoid issues that would be better off left as fast-failure crashes. Maybe that's because of the 5.6 Sol Max I leave it on.
Seems like they have enough AI they could find a way to put ManifestV2 back into the browser and fix things we actually wanted instead of putting more bullshit "AI improvements" we didn't?
lol given the state of Gemini at the moment, they probably used Claude.
give it another year and AI will be filing bugs faster than humans can merge the fixes, and the Chrome team will need a separate AI just to triage the first AI's bug reports
So Google could have been using AI to fix the XSLT bugs instead of acting like a cult and forcing everyone to remove it? What does this mean for things Google deems too bug riddled to be a viable feature? Will they remove the HTML surface now or fix it? I would love for the geniuses on the WHATWG to answer.
A company valued at $4+ trillion based on the recent AI hype alone is touting the benefits of using said AI, and we're supposed to take this shit for granted.
I'm wondering what the Alphabet employees still commenting on this forum have to say about it? I guess for the right comps they can keep their mouths shut no matter the high level of idiocy involved.
Big AI player promotes AI through blog to make AI look better woo
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Did anyone check the code changes manually? What if it is just slop code?
I am actually using AI to learn about Windows OS performance. I have a couple of prompts scheduled to research, test, and implement performance gains in the OS, then post them here [0] and here [1]. I always admired Brendan Greg and Bryan Cantrill at Sun/Illumos/ for their work on OS performance but never had the time to sit down and catch up to their level due to my time in the military.
I got Codex to find and apply a bunch of settings I didn't know about and in the future I hope to use AI to make real changes in performance that venders probably don't have time or resources for.
that being said, what I've learned so far is essentially WhyIsItAlwaysHN's entire comment "The place to find them would be performance profiles, query plans, telemetry."
I just find it so frustrating that for a user interface that was basically solved in the 90s, Windows GUI still struggles to survive on hardware exceptionally more powerful than what we had 30 years ago
0 - https://www.lacksan.com/updates/ 1 - https://github.com/Lacksan-Dev/HP-ZBook-Performance
Did they fix that bug with ublock not working properly on Chrome?